current and ongoing projects
  Current projects (updated december 2020):
- SourceCheck (Berlin/Portugal) - research and open-source cooperative, currently supported by a Grant for the Web (funded by Coil and administered by Mozilla)
 - learningProof UG - business entity for consulting, working with freelancers on grants, contracts, etc.
 - Spruce Systems - Open Source Yenta and developer portal maintenance
 - Decentralized Identity Foundation - educational & editorial duties, membership initiative, community/process refinements, and programming for “face to face” conference 19 Jan
 - Rebase Community Group - an open source infrastructure initiative, sponsored by Spruce Systems (NYC). Public meetings launching Q2 2021.
 
Selected publications:
- The Next Big Thing is You: a laypersons’ introduction to SSI (Medium)
 - Exploring Market Gaps in Corporate and IoT Identity (Contributing editor and researcher, for Purple Tornado)
 - Article about Article 230 and AirBNB (Domi Labs blog)
 - “Decentralized Identity as a Meta-Platform: Cooperation beats Aggregation”, a whitepaper from the Rebooting Web of Trust 9 conference in Prague, Czechia
 - Editor/Chief contributor to the Spherity blog July 2019-2020
 
Past projects:
- Spherity GmbH (startup) - communications, technical resource, grantwriter, and project manager for SVIP project Phase 1
 - domi labs (social-purpose UG) - co-founder, privacy and identity advisor
 - purple tornado (for-profit LLC) - researcher (no currently-active projects)
 - popula (for profit LLC) - contributing author, editorial assist
 - Zip Zap Solutions, LLC (Washington, D.C.) - Business development
 - Shooter/Farmer (Los Angeles, CA) - Systems Administrator
 - Earlham College (Richmond, IN) - Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies (2013-2016)
    
- academic publications listed here
 
 
      
    