I help nonprofits and businesses graduate their new initiatives from idea to project closure stage through fundraising, prototyping, user testing, and implementation to evaluation. By guiding decision makers to move through disagreements and identify your mission’s systemic barriers, I help you co-lead strategic plans to remove your community’s biggest barriers. As you wrap up projects, I can help you measure the Intersectional Impact of Giving and Receiving (IIGR) framework I created to measure your intervention’s impact on your community’s most vulnerable.
Over 13 years, I’ve served over 60% of the world’s population through work at Ashoka, Wikimedia Foundation, Mozilla, Internet Society, and the Centre for Internet and Society. I consult and advise on three broader fields:
Access and participation play a critical role in social justice. I can help you unleash the potential of open knowledge (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia projects), open source, standards and licenses to significantly increase access and participation.
How can your work address growing digital and other human rights concerns, and inform the future course of social innovations? I work closely with each organization to measure impact against mission-aligned values, and help identify the systemic digital and human rights barriers.
How can communities access, disseminate and own knowledge meaningfully and effectively? I help organizations in two ways to do this. First, by immersive, human-centered and ethnographic storytelling through documentaries, videos and podcasts. Second, by training communities build sovereign citizen data and media.
Low-resourced language audiovisual documentation toolkit. Used in ten+ documentaries and to record ten+ languages.
Awards: National Geographic Explorer (2017), MJ Bear Fellowship 2017, Creative Commons mini-grant, Mozilla Open Leadership (2021), Grant for the Web (2021)
Gyani Maiya
FILM / Directed and produced documentary contributing to revival of near-extinct Kusunda language.
Awards: National Geographic Society grant; Nine international film festival wins and multiple worldwide screenings.
FILM / Founded and led research on the national biometric ID Aadhaar-led exclusion of India’s marginalized populations. I turned my findings into the eponymous feature-length documentary.
Awards: Digital Identity Fellowship (2019, by Yoti), premiere at re:publica 2021, Berlin
FILM / Directed and produced docufiction, narrating how India’s bahujan communities cease long-denied economic power from the dominant caste groups.
Awards: Future I Money Artist grant (2023, Interledger Foundation)
OER - WEB SERIES / Directed and produced two bilingual (Hindi and Kannada) educational web series on editing Wikipedia for the Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with Christ University.
Founded and coordinated input tools and Guru Gomke font family creation for India's Indigenous Santali language.
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