
Welcoming our two new team members
Our office reached capacity this winter by welcoming two new members to the team: JC Sanchez and Willow Brugh. We are fortunate to have them on board to expand our program work in California and abroad.
In our fourth AI Openness & Equity Policy Leadership Cohort session, Michelle Thorne from the Green Web Foundation joined us as we explored climate justice in the context of AI. Specifically, our discussion centered around the question: how does AI intersect with climate justice, and what can it mean for public interest technology?
Our office reached capacity this winter by welcoming two new members to the team: JC Sanchez and Willow Brugh. We are fortunate to have them on board to expand our program work in California and abroad.
Come celebrate the holidays with us at our home in the S.F. Mission district. We will be in the company of our awesome office mates from The Ruckus Society, Upwell, and Open WhisperSystems. We would love to see you there!
In November, we excitedly debuted our latest Aspiration t-shirt at the Nonprofit Software Development Summit. This time around, we stepped away from our musical homages to honor places that we have been given the opportunity to work in.
Here's what emerged from a sea of drawing boards:
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We are looking forward to learning from ArtSpark at our Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland next week, an organization working at the intersection of art and technology. In Aspiration land, we're huge fans of helping folks practice their passions in sustainable ways. So before we dive into #npdev, we want to introduce you to a group we've been collaborating with from California to New Mexico since 2010.
We're excited to have folks from UC Santa Cruz's Everett Program bringing love and fresh perspectives to our Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland this month.