People

Andi served as teaching artist and site arts coordinator in San Francisco public schools for over two decades. As project coordinator for ArtsEd4All, she creates curriculum, conducts workshops, hosts film screenings, and organizes participatory community events such as the annual Blake Mini Library book drive for Hamilton Families, Civic Season with Made By Us, and open-ended play with The Blue Marbles Project. Her creative partners include composer/musician Marcus Shelby, First Voice led by artistic directors Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu, The Last Hoisan Poets (poets Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong), Del Sol String Quartet, and the Internet Archive.

Arkadiy has worked on creating sustainable communities on the web for the past decade. He is currently the Decentralized Tech lead at the Internet Archive and has served as  Collaborations Coordinator with Protocol Labs and advisor to Ampled, an artist support co-operative. Previously, he was the CTO at Mediachain Labs (acquired by Spotify in spring 2017) and worked on The Hype Machine, an influential music blog aggregator.

BZ joined the Internet Archive in October 2016. A veteran of the Animation industry; Lucasfilm, Wild Brain, Pixar and Colossal Pictures, it was her love of books that drove her to work for the Internet Archive. As a life long "people person" she is well suited for her responsibilities in events and people operations for the Archive. When not working, BZ likes to watch baseball, listen to jazz and go running on her beloved Mt. Tamalpais.

Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, curator & experience designer. With her consultancy Abstract Machine Studio, Beth serves clients building ecoystem, culture and relational intelligence. Currently, she supports DWeb Camp with strategic partnerships, Web3Privacy Now as Program Director, Funding the Commons with program deisgn and management and other allies as an advisor.

Beth is passionate about digital rights and freedom, tech as a force for resilient communities, and designing for ethical humand and their systems.

Dani is a Paris/Berlin-based curator of human experiences. By day, they bring their background as a business owner and data/marketing strategist to the creation of memorable, detail-driven events. By night, they're a promoter, booker, and resident DJ for the Paris queer multidisciplinary collectives Grisemule and The Love.

Passionate about digital rights, decentralized governance, and the ways technology shapes how we organize and live together.

Eseohe Ojo (Ese) is Policy and Campaign Manager at Fight for the Future as well as Projects Organizer with DWeb. She is an Associate Producer of 2022 DWeb Camp. She’s worked on various projects involving policy, writing, research and communications with nonprofits on a range of issues including digital rights, the environment, freedom of expression, access to information, academic freedom, gender, democracy, and open government.

Ian is a platform / protocol engineer with over a decade of experience building and managing distributed infrastructure. He takes a particular focus on the ethical and social aspects of what he is building, and is an expert in new decentralized, privacy preserving identity and data storage solutions like Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, and Social Linked Data. He participates in the Secure Data Storage working group of the Decentralized Identity foundation, and is passionate about building technical tools and standards that help communities and individuals manage and share their data in a way that promotes consent and autonomy. He is currently building a more cooperative web Mysilio Co.

Ira is an independent creative director working in open source and decentralized tech. She helps tech founders build brands that accelerate early adoption and funding. 

After years working for global brands like Mercedes-Benz and Lindt and fintech giants like Deutsche Bank and Wirecard, she joined Web3 in early 2018 and has since served as a creative director at companies big and small, translating complex tech into brand identities that shift how projects are perceived by users and funders. 

These days, she runs her own design consulting practice and serves as a fractional creative director across several decentralized tech projects. 

Ira has been a core DWeb Camp organizer since 2020.

Joachim is a strategic ecosystem builder and part of the core organizing team at DWeb, where he helps shape one of the leading global gatherings in decentralized technology.

Between 2014 and 2020, he served as a Connector for the Ouishare network, scaling cross-border collaboration across Europe and the United States. He initiated the GET Decentralized Hackathon & Summit in Berlin and played a catalytic role in early transatlantic convenings that helped build the foundation for the first DWeb Summit in 2016.

As founder of Jolocom, Joachim has been an active contributor to the decentralized identity landscape. He has served as co-founder and board member of Bundesblock and as a steering committee member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), helping shape governance, standards, and industry coordination in the blockchain and digital identity space.

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mai ishikawa sutton is a Senior Organizer of DWeb and DWeb Camp. They are a organizer and writer focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network (https://commonsnetwork.org/) and co-founder and editor of COMPOST (https://compost.digital/), an online magazine about and for the digital commons.

Marie is a feminist technologist and community builder. She co-founded drip, an open-source, offline period and fertility tracker that is feminist, gender-inclusive, and science-based, built for everyone. With roots in sociology, Latin American studies, and software engineering, Marie (also known as bl00dymarie on the internet) weaves together tech, sexual health, and community. She is taking care of the Pollinator Program and is hoping to see you all at DWeb Camp.

Enthusiast by nature, bard by trade, Tommi brings people together in the most improbable ways. They love to describe themselves as FediObsessed not only because they love the Fediverse, but because they believe networked independent communities and bottom-up politics are the only things that will save humanity from the climate collapse. They study Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and they are involved in (too) many other things that compromise their sanity and that would make this bio unbelievably long.

Wendy Hanamura is an leader with deep experience in nonprofit management of global organizations with outsized impact. For more than a decade she served the Internet Archive as Director of Partnerships and continues as a Steward of DWeb (https://getdweb.net/). She helped create the Dentralized Web Summits (2016, 2018) and DWeb Camps (2019-date).

Hanamura's passion is using storytelling to achieve positive social change. As a content creator, she's had a rich career as a magazine journalist, Tokyo-based foreign correspondent, television reporter and host, moderator and public speaker. 

Sifu Young Wong is a disciple of Hung Sing Style Choy Lee Fut. Choy Lee Fut, one of the most popular styles among full contact fighters throughout Asia, was founded over 150 years ago by Chan Heung in Gung Mui, China. Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut practitioners were instructed in the skills of defensive warfare and spiritual discipline.
 
 Young studied both Wing Chun, (direct lineage from Ip Man, reknowned Chinese martial artist and grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun), as well as Choy Lee Fut (under Sifu E.Y. Lee, direct lineage from Grand Master Lau Bun, who is credited with bringing Choy Li Fut to America) Sifu Young's name has been entered in the Shaolin Temple and in the Choy Lee Fut origination temple in China. Young is also a retired architect and enjoys woodworking now.