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.

Audio engineer and coder working around the creative possibilities of programming in artistic and experimental projects. Antonia works as a developer and researcher in EnFlujo,  a lab based in Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia), and volunteers remotely at DWeb.

She is interested in power and the ways of exerting it, technological appropriation, and digital culture and media, and enjoys error, replica, margin, and doubt.

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.

Ben cultivates connection with Custom Camps, bringing play and nature to corporate teams. He is excited to lead production at Dweb for the third year.

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I'm Bear. I do product and business stuff at darksoil studio, and serve as program lead at dWeb Labs. I love growing beautiful human systems around meaningful projects. I also love Microalgae. Talk to me about it.  Barefoot.

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 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. He 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 on contract with the Filecoin Foundation, where he works with social impact projects like DWeb Camp, Starling Lab, Guardian Project, and many others.

Ira is a designer with a focus on branding for emerging technologies.

Always being on a mission to “made new tech look beautiful and human” she made her way from traditional advertising for huge retail brands to software development for German and Nordic tech scenes, to — since early 2018 — designing for decentralized web.

These days she helps Web3 creators connect with their early adopters through the language of share and color. Additionally to her work on brand development at Jolocom and DWeb, she organizes (occasional) DWebDesign meetups in Berlin.

Kelani Nichole is a technologist and founder of an experimental media art gallery called TRANSFER. She has been exploring decentralized networks and virtual worlds in contemporary art since 2013. Nichole's focus is supporting artists with critical technology practice, and exploring alternative models of cultural infrastructure. Currently she is building the TRANSFER Archive, a decentralized data trust and cooperative model for cultural value exchange, and producing a generative documentary film 'Almost in Real Time'.

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Mai Ishikawa Sutton is founder of COMPOST magazine, contributor at Hypha Worker Co-operative, and an organizer and writer focused on the intersections of human rights, solidarity economics, and digital commons. They were a steward/community organizer with the People's Open Network, DWeb Camp 2019 Associate Producer, and Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network. Formerly, they were the Community Engagement Manager at Shareable. Before that they were with the Electronic Frontier Foundation advocating for the public interest in international intellectual property policy.

ngọc practices design, research, and pottery as interventions to address asymmetrical power relations and challenge the hegemonies of knowledge production.

Over the past six years, she has worked closely with free, open-source, decentralized and distributed project teams and their communities to tackle challenges such as digital safety and security, neocolonialism, and Internet censorship.

ngọc initially joined the DWeb movement in 2019 as a maintainer of Decent Patterns (https://decentpatterns.com/). She was a DWeb Fellow in 2022 and a Curator of the Design Track (https://dwebcamp.org/designers/) in 2023.

Now, she serves as the DWeb Fellowship Director, bringing her experiences in community organizing and decolonial practices to amplify and expand the program's impact. Talk to her about: de/colonial tactics, decent patterns, kendo, and how one might create a transparent matte glaze at cone 10

Wendy Hanamura is the producer of DWeb Camp. She was the master juggler of the DWeb Camp 2019, 2022, Decentralized Web Summits 2018 and 2016. 

She is a storyteller for social change.

As Director of Partnerships at the Internet Archive, Hanamura uses her communication skills as a veteran journalist and leader in non-profit media to share the remarkable mission of the Internet Archive—providing people everywhere with unfettered access to knowledge. 

Will Howes is a Computer Science major at Reed College. He is a recurring volunteer at the Aaron Swartz Day International Hackathon and presented his experience with high school activism at the 2021 event. Will is excited to facilitate participation and engagement in the DWeb community and to make more friends in along the way. In his free time, Will likes to go for runs and read, among other things, the plot summaries of movies on Wikipedia.

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.