Tuesday, 14 October 2025
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As political momentum around Artificial Intelligence accelerates, its development, funding, and expansion are reshaping the policy landscape for civil society. Too often, these debates do not center justice, equity, and the public interest.
Hi, I'm Misty Avila. Welcome to the Central Valley blog! I'm starting this blog to tell the tale of expanding Aspiration's eAdvocacy capacity building program to the Central Valley. We can share ideas, reveal nonprofit tech goodies, ask questions, or just chat about the Tule Fog that blankets the Valley.
Once upon a time,
It was a blast to be in Berlin at the start of February participating in Transmediale.11 with great friends from Mozilla Drumbeat and FLOSSManuals. I helped to facilitate sessions on Strategies of Political Participation and Open Activism, and slowed down long enough to opine about obfuscating personal data in the cloud.
Misty Avila joins Aspiration as our eAdvocacy Program Coordinator. Misty will be taking our eAdvocacy Capacity Building Program into California's Central Valley. This will include leading trainings, developing materials and serving as the network hub for those looking for Aspiration's eAdvocacy work in the Central Valley.
Kicking off 2011, Aspiration is offering some free trainings around online communications support. The seminars on the slate are:
Aspiration Executive Director Allen Gunn was delighted to speak at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, on one of his favorite topics, Effective Social Media Workflow.
