TALKS + TRAININGS

Presenting at the White House's first Tech Meetup in April 2015 on what it means to build with, not for communities in the creation of tools for governance & resilience. Photo by Demond Drummer.

I'm a teacher, speaker, and facilitator with over 10 years of experience.

I offer trainings on meaningful community engagement, bias discovery, and anti-oppression training for governments and non-profits, catering to all levels of experience across online, offline, and place-based environments. Interested in working together? Get in touch.

Below you'll find a round-up of my greatest hits, as well as a fairly-up-to-date "ticker" of where I'll be gabbing next.

Future

Center for Government Excellence internal training, March 2018
Social Medicine Consortium, April 2018
Build With Gathering, June 2018
Allied Media Conference, June 2018

2018

Make Meaningful Connections, NYC Gov: OpenData Coordinator's Training
Community Engagement: Tools and Techniques for Making Meaningful Connections (class),Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University

2017

Community Partnership in Civic Design, Citizen Interaction Design, University of Michigan
Build With, Not For , Citizen Interaction Design, University of Michigan
Co-Desiging Our Cities (The Remix!), Integrated Network for Social Sustainability Conference, UNC Charlotte
Already S mart: Community Leadership in Civic Problem-Solving in Charlotte and Beyond, Integrated Network for Social Sustainability Conference, UNC Charlotte
Inclusive Innovation in American's Cities, Aspen Institute
The Arsonists Workshop, a week-long education initiative designed by McCann to combine dramaturgy and conscious-raising for the cast of The Woolly Mammoth Theatre's fall production of"The Arsonists"
Identity and Power , Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Time and Power: Putting the 2016 Election in Perspective , St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church
Design Jam: Costuming , a co-design project based on Project Runway for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Design Jam: Lighting , a co-design project translating lighting design into string for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Working with Discomfort: An Introduction to Facilitation, Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Fighting Fascism: How Did We Get Here?, Woolly Mammoth Theatre

2016

Identity & Policy: Toward human-centered social policy and understanding our own biases as creators , New America (internal)
Inclusive Innovation in America's Cities, Aspen Meadows
If You Build It , New America NYC
Design Justice Network Gathering , Allied Media Conference
Plan for Success: An Intro to Sustainable Community Engagement in Open Data , What Works Cities Summit
Build With, Not For , Wesleyan University
Using Technology to Open Government from the Outside , Sunshine Week 2016
Civic Participation on Our Terms, in Our Lives , New America
DC Story Circle at Mt Pleasant Library, People's State of the Union
Technology and Power , CityLab 2016
Innovation Speed-Dating, Welcome Reception, CityLab 2016
Beyond Bystander Intervention: A DC Community Education Jam, Fantom Comics

Tiny crab hands, clawing for justice during City Lab Miami 2016. Before we can build *tools* that will change how government works for the better, we (whoever "we" are) need a critical understanding of how our governing *system* works (and who it does and doesn't work for).

2015

Do We Want Civic Tech?, Web of Change
If Technology is a Tool for Power, Then..., Web of Change
Build With, Not For: Community Partnership in Civic Tech, Code for America Summit
Community Engagement Models for More Inclusive Journalism , Online News Association Conference
Challenges to Open Government in the U.S. Today , International TransparencyCamp
Construyendo con la gente (keynote), Santiago, Chile, ConDatos
Innovation = Imagination , White House Tribal Youth Gathering
Community Technology Network Gathering, Allied Media Conference
Community, Technology, and Partnerships , Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar
Thinking Differently About Community Engagement with Data, GovLab Academy
The Ethics of Civic Hacking, NY Tech Meetup: Leadership Circle Event
Build With, Not For, White House’s First Tech Meetup
Mo Open Data, Omidyar Network’s Civic Tech Ignite at Civic Hall
Experimental Modes of Direct Partnership in Civic Tech , Chicago Community Trust Convening
Build With, Not For Workshop, facilitated with Jessie Posilkin at Open Data Day DC
Building Community and Engagement Around Data , Data Literacy Bootcamp at the World Bank — related blogpost

Moderating the "Community, Technology, and Partnerships" panel at the Knight Foundation's 2015 Media Learning Seminar with Kathleen Dickhut (pictured), Asiaha Butler, and Demond Drummer. Photo by the Knight Foundation.

2014

Social Magic for Civic Participation (and Dinosaurs), Magick Codes
Beyond Hacking for Good : An Inclusive, Government-(and Citizen) Friendly Approach Toward Civic Tech, World Bank
“Civic Tech for All”, NYCFusion Rise Up Hackathon
CivicTech‬ With, Not For Workshop at BetaNYC’s #CivicFreeSchool
Radically Weird Civic Design , Civic Design Camp
The Talk: How to Increase Diversity In Civic Experiences , Civic Design Camp
“Timings” , with artist Augustina Woodgate for The 5×5 Project
Offline: Bridging Digital Divides in Open Data , Mozilla Fest 2014
Community Integration in Civic Tech (or the DC “Build With, Not For” Action Plan), DC Day of Civic Hacking
Millennials Rising, facilitator for policy breakouts and interactive sessions
“The Millennial Challenge" , Millennials Rising Symposium
Smart, Ethical Cities, an introduction to “The Responsive City“, New America
Building DC Civic Tech With Intentionality , October Code for DC meetup
The Talk: Approaches to Inclusive Community Engagement, Code for America Summit
Building for Inclusive Community Participation , Code for America Summit
People First: Meeting Residents Where They Are , Code for America Summit
Ethics of Data in Civil Society, Stanford University
Laboratories of Data-Driven Democracy , Ohio State’s BigDataFuture
Technology, Community, and the Arts , American University
Open Government: Civil Servants encounter Civil Society , American Society for Public Administration Conference
2014 Weingartner Digital Citizenship Forum panelist , College of William and Mary and dotDemocracy

Following my talk at the Code for America Summit 2014, a panel discussion with Catherine Bracy, Diana Nucera, and Denise Taylor. Photo by Code for America.

...And Earlier...

Realistic Careers in Non-profit Advocacy, Harvard’s Intercollegiate Business Convention (IBC) Women in Business Weekend
All Data is Local, TEDxMidAtlantic
Open Data: City Policies to Promote Transparency, Efficiency, and Engagement , Sunlight Foundation, Harvard Ash Center, & National League of Cities
Open Data: Getting Started , Code for America Webinar
Open Data & Performance Innovation , State Policy Directors Annual Meeting
Navigating the Sea of Data Without Getting Lost , CITRIS/UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies
Local Government Innovation: Open Data, Lean Thinking, Hackathons…Oh My!, Truman Scholars Association 2013 National Conference
Oakland Public Ethics Commission’s informational hearing on transparency. [Video @ 1:14:53]
The Government We Build Together , intro for TransparencyCamp 2013
DIY Open Data, Capitol Hill Montessori School’s GIS team
Intro: Hack for DC Opening Day , National Day of Civic Hacking
Everything I Know About Community Organizing I Learned from a Giant Orb, EventPros Meetup
Help Us Design the Future of Local Open Data, Chicago’s OpenGov Hack Night
Developing Physical + Digital Communities , DC WEEK
Where Good Governance Meets Good Teach : Guest lecture at Transparency International Lithuania’s Summer School on Integrity
Making (Cyber)Space for Public Art , TEDxDC
An Introduction to Open Data, Transparency Action Plan (TAP) Summit
Paint and Slaps on Foot , street art tour, AIGA’s Design Week
We Demand Open Gov , rally, Salt Lake City, Utah in support of state-level right-to-know laws
Where Do Lobbyists Come From? And Where Do Their Dollars Go?, Occupy DC
City Stewardship Rebooted, Redesign_DC
Introduction to Campaign Finance and Online Disclosure , Rootscamp
Open Data, Open Art, CityCamp San Francisco

Still glowing from the great day of dialogue and documentation with participants in the 2015 Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech convening I hosted with the Smart Chicago Collaborative and the Chicago Community Trust. Better, together. Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil.