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