Speaking and facilitation

Rhizome Project @ New Museum: Internet Subjects (June 2014)

Rhizome Project @ New Museum: Internet Subjects (June 2014)

I’ve attended events as both a facilitator and panelist. I’ve spoken about citizen journalism and community engagement, creative storytelling and content distribution, labor in the peer economy, nuances of the “sharing economy."

  • Institute for the Future (July 2015)

  • U.S. Department of Labor (March 2015)

  • SXSWi (March 2015) - The Real Risks of “Keepin’ it Real”

  • Next American Economy @ Roosevelt Institute (January 2015, May 2015, February 2016)

  • Digital Labor 2014 @ The New School - The future of workers in the sharing economy, panelist (my talk, research provocations for digital labor, begins at 29:41)

  • Bay Area Video Coalition - Gig Union Town Hall A town hall to discuss a world where freelancing is the new normal (video)

  • Social Capital Markets Annual Conference - The Future of Work (panelist, September 2014)

  • PBS NewsHour -#NewsHourChats on Twitter - Subject matter expert about trust and the sharing economy (July 2014)

  • Rhizome Project @ New Museum - Internet Subjects: #Uberwars and the "Sharing Economy” (panelist, June 2014)

  • Personal Democracy Forum - Defining the “sharing economy” (panelist, June 2014)

  • SHARE 2014 - The Future of Work - plenary speaker (about 12:45 in video) and panelist (video) (May 2014)

  • Microsoft Research’s Fuse Labs - Tracing the Constellation of Actors in the Peer Economy (guest speaker, April 2014)

  • Boston Sharing Economy Conference - Private-public partnership discussion with panelists from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, ZipCar and People and Planet Holdings (facilitator, December 2013)

  • NPR’s 2013 Weekend in Washington - NPR Generation Listen session to bust myths about millennials in politics and work. Facilitated by NPR tech reporter Elise Hu (guest conversationalist alongside PolicyMic’s Chris Altchek, November 2013)

  • CIRANO workshop on networks in trade & finance - From serfing landlords to surfing the web: the co-evolution of technology and paradigms of work (presenter, October 2013)

  • 2013 Awesome Foundation Summit - Infrastructure for the Hustle Economy (panel facilitator, October 2013)

  • 2013 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference - Ignite presentation about Postmarked

  • Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond – The most experimental storytellers: Citizen journalists (panel facilitator, May 2013)

  • Block by Block Community News Summit - Defining, Finding, and Engaging Your Audience (panelist) / Working with citizen contributors (facilitator), October 2011

  • Block by Block Community News Summit (blogger, October 2010 and 2012)

  • 2011 Online News Association Conference – I screwed up (and you will, too!) (panelist, September 2011)

  • Knight Community Information Challenge Boot Camp – (speaker / trainer, September 2011)

  • Sunday Soup - Emcee, arts microgranting (July 2011)

  • Allied Media Conference – Pirate Box Commons – Mapping collective meaning through open technology and engagement (co-facilitator with Open Technology Institute, June 2011)

  • Reynolds Journalism Institute - The Engagement Metric (workshop participant, May 2011)

  • Rapid Growth Speaker Series – Community Brainstorm (panelist, May 2010)

  • Young Women Strong Leaders (arts and media panelist, April 2010)

  • Alliance for Community Media – Central States (speaker, October 2009)

And a few private speaking engagements (i.e., Code for America, Ideo.org)