Get Joel and Lisha to HOPE
Please help Lisha Sterling and Joel Preston Smith get to the The Circle of HOPE conference !
Lisha will be giving a talk entitled "Tech Warrior Camp at Standing Rock: Lessons for Keeping The Lights On and the Livefeeds Streaming".
Lisha and Joel will be presenting a workshop together called "Assholes and Infiltrators: A game for every activist" to help people learn how to deal with difficult or problematic members of a community to prevent damage to the core work of your group.
Unfortunately, HOPE does not pay for speakers' travel, so we need YOUR help to get there. We need airfare for each of us (coming from different states), plus a place to sleep, food, and transportation in New York.
Joel Preston Smith is the Director of Field Operations and Communications at Frontline Wellness United. Lisha Sterling is the Executive Director at Geeks Without Bounds and also a board member at Frontline Wellness United. Both do this work FULL TIME and neither currently receives a salary for the work they do.
Neither organization has funds available for travel to conferences at this time. Frontline Wellness United is a new organization which has not yet received its 501c3. Geeks Without Bounds (GWOB) was previously under the fiscal sponsorship of School Factory which closed down at the end of 2017. Geeks Without Bounds is now in the process of merging with an existing 501c3 called Mentor House in Tacoma, WA. In the meantime, GWOB has a fiscal sponsorship agreement with Mentor House to allow us to continue functioning during the transition.
HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) is a get together of activists, whistleblowers, computer programmers, information security specialists, amateur radio enthusiasts, and other people who embrace Jude Milhon's definition of Hacking:
"Hacking is the clever circumvention of obstacles, whether imposed by your government, your IP server, your own personality, or the laws of physics."
It is the conference of the 2600 Magazine which happens every other year in New York.