Distaster Response for Communities

Author: Hadassah Damien


  • Hadassah Damien is the real talk punk big sister behind Ride Free Fearless Money. She’s an entrepreneur, innovation coach, and human-centered designer, with an MA in sociology & political science, a DIY MBA from running 5 businesses, and a DIY MFA from touring art for 7 years.

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  • Dan looks inquisitive and slightly serious in front of a dinosaur.

    Dan Tennery-Spalding is a teacher / software engineer in Oakland, California. He started his activist career leading know your rights trainings for the anti-globalization and anti-war movements before pivoting to a focus on emergency preparedness. Find him on Bluesky: @magnitude.bsky.social



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  • Devin Balkind

    He’s developed expertise on issues related to disaster response, participatory democracy and government technology, which he has shared via dozens of presentations at events organized by the American Red Cross, US Department of Defense, NYC Mayor’s Office, United Nations, g0v.tw, MediaLab Prato and others. His writing about government technology often appears in Gotham Gazette. A complete list of presentations and writing can be found at devinbalkind.com.



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  • Drew

    Drew is a cultural poet, artist, activist, and community organizer who uses technology and design to support building the beautiful world we all know is possible.



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  • Eleanor looking happy in front of a maroon wall

    Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex transdiciplinary systems and stories fail and redesigning them to fail better.



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  • Hadassah Damien is the real talk punk big sister behind Ride Free Fearless Money. She’s an entrepreneur, innovation coach, and human-centered designer, with an MA in sociology & political science, a DIY MBA from running 5 businesses, and a DIY MFA from touring art for 7 years.



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  • Jen looks stressed in front of an incoming cloud of doom

    Mom and pro-catastrophizer, Jen Heller is on a mission to help as many families as possible prepare for disasters. Her super power is taking complicated information and breaking it down into easy-to-understand pieces. She founded Here Comes the Apocalypse and offers free resources and a step-by-step system for disaster preparedness.



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  • Jesse (he/him) is a mental health advocate and first aid nerd who is currently studying counseling. He is committed to advancing equitable mental health care. His previous career included designing and building science exhibits, public space installations, and bakery facilities.



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  • John Crowley playing cello at Burning Man

    John Crowley is an expert in connecting grassroots and government around crisis response. He has held leadership and technologist posts at the Red Cross (IFRC), United Nations, and multiple humanitarian NGOs.



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  • Kate has spent the last 16 years working across the US at the intersection of agriculture, technology, justice, and democratic workplace design. Bouncing between food production and technology, she has built a career out of working behind the scenes to tackle system-wide problems, especially the ones that involve spreadsheets or power tools.



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  • A sketch of Kendra with orange hair and a happy smile.

    Kendra Allenby is a cartoonist for the New Yorker and other magazines, and teaches drawing and creative practice to adults. She often draws cartoons for the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations where she uses humor to make difficult topics approachable. If she’s not drawing, she’s probably outside.



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  • Mark Ferlatte

    Mark Ferlatte thinks about and works on complex systems. Some days, the systems work on him instead.



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  • Mathew Lubari is a self-taught repairer, passionate advocate for digital literacy and repair activism, and leader in the Right-to-Repair Movement dedicated to empowering communities through skills development.



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  • Myeong June

    MJ is an enthusiastic maker and breaker of technologies for social justice. They have a passion for teaching, learning, and merry-making in service of loving and dignified way of being.



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  • Nana is a researcher and policy consultant with a focus on clear, accessible language that demystifies complex topics. Dedicated to advancing responsible emerging tech practices and thoughtful policy development.



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  • Rakesh Bharania is President of Tarian Innovation and has spent more than 29 years in the humanitarian sector, focusing on the intersection of emerging technologies and international crisis response. He has led cybersecurity, privacy and humanitarian efforts at Cisco, Apple and Salesforce, with a focus on the effective, equitable and protective use of technology in fragile contexts.



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  • Roo is a queer trans Muslim punk who is living the dream in an intentional community in the Hudson Valley. They cofounded a worker owned cooperative that provides technology consulting services to organizations, and can be found most place online as mxroo.



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  • Seamus works as the Director of Operations for Leverege (an AI & IoT tech company) where he designs, builds, and deploys systems to manage people, money, business relationships, consumer privacy, and corporate security.

    In his free time, Seamus has built Digital Aid Seattle, a completely volunteer 501(c)(3) organization building free, bespoke, open source digital tools for underfunded communities and municipalities.



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  • willowbl00

    Willow looks at connections, systems, empowerment, and powerlessness and strives to both understand and improve whatever they find.



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