Christa Stout is a local from Portland who spent about ten years away before coming home to work for the Portland Timbers. While she was away, she worked in the nonprofit sector doing sport and social change work in various places like Central and South America, South Africa, Australia, and Eastern Europe. While in school, […]
David Neff is the founder and past CEO of Lights. Camera. Help (LCH). LCH is the world’s first nonprofit focused on cause driven and nonprofit filmmaking. He now serves as the VP of its board. He is also a past president of the Social Media Club of Austin. Neff did not attend SXSW while he was […]
Shanna Jade got her start working for a concert promoter in high school, then eventually managing bands, booking tours & releasing records in college with one of her friends under the name GHouse. She took some time away from the music industry for a bit to lead social strategy for branded campaigns at Complex Media, […]
Robert Hernandez is not your typical journalism professor. He teaches as an associate professor of professional practice at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, but he doesn’t necessarily consider himself an academic. “I am what’s called a practitioner,” Hernandez said. “There are academics that are boring and hypothetical about what the […]
Jordan Dunn is a Senior Product Designer at WillowTree. They work with Fortune 500 companies such as Regal Cinemas, Wyndham and Johnson & Johnson. Dunn began designing when he was a teenager who was heavy into video games and the group he played with wanted a website. Flash was the big program back then and that is […]
Tod Beardsley is the Director of Research at Rapid7, an IT and computer security firm. He has over 20 years of experience in computer security, having worked for major tech companies such as 3COM and Dell. These days, Beardsley primarily speaks at security and coding conferences, discussing the disclosure of security vulnerabilities. Of course sometimes, he […]
Day Al-Mohamed is a Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Department of Labor and focuses on Disability Employment. She also works with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), is the Founding Director of the Lead On Network, is a writer of fiction and fantasy novels, and in the past few years has […]