Joshua

Shimkin

NYU MBA Student

Marketing

Mariana

Robles Martínez

telepuntura

I studied humanities (philo, art-theory, dance impro). I'm finishing my undergrad thesis about art with mobile phones. I'm also writing about other aesthetic-activist experiments in my weblog http://telepuntura.net (it's all in spanish tough) and I'm about to start a serious hunt for a great MA program related.

humanities- art

Ian

Ward

Development Seed

Write a lot of code and design engaging campaign sites targeting social change. Specialize in online advocacy, fundraising, activism, organizing, blogging, and improving the user experience. ian [at] developmentseed.org

IT, International Development

scott

dudelson

Music for Charity Productions

Interested in the intersection of non-profits, mobile and entertainment. Find out more about what i do at: www.musicforcharityproductions.org www.auctionsforchange.com

Emily

Gertz

OneAtlantic.net; Worldchanging.com

Freelance writer and communications consultant based in New York City. I blog at OneAtlantic.net and WorldChanging.com.

Oscar

Soria

Greenpeace

About me... mmmm... so, my name is Oscar, I´m communications director on Greenpeace in Argentina. Before I worked as a campaigner on agriculture issues in the same NGO. I am 31 years old, I live alone in Buenos Aires (since september 1999). I left my hometown (Santiago del Estero, 1200 km at northwest of Buenos Aires) to work in this organization. Prior to these jobs in Greenpeace, I worked in the regional media in the northwest of Argentina (my initial profession is a journalist, because I studied Communications and journalism). I worked as a journalist and in my free times I was worked ad honorem with the local comunities in the social and rural projects in the region. The local people (specially peasants) have demanded the legal possesion of the land 50 years ago. With my ex-girlfriend, Marcela, I worked in agriculture issues with the local communities. I also worked in the media for the Justice & Peace Service. I also worked for the environmental service of the catholic church. I was coordinator of the National Cristians Churchs Council in water, agricultural and environmental issues. And it was then when I first got in touch with the transgenic issue. I did not worked intensively only on that issue. Originally I am an environment catholic activist. I'm from Santiago del Estero. It´s the oldest city of Argentina. My province is the most poor in Argentina. The environment of this region is the "Chaco" (very similar to the african Sabana). Is the second ecosystem of South America, after the Amazonia. This semiarid ecosystem is very biodiverse. The fauna and flora specially the latest populations of ´quebracho´ trees are unique in the world, and various species of fauna and flora are near extintion. In my country, the big farmers from the other region of Argentina, the "Pampa húmeda", they want the Chaco's lands... they want to destroy our latest forests and produce transgenic soya. From the beggining, in 1996, we said: "Save the Chaco!". The Greenpeace Argentina people and others locals & nationals NGOs helped us to save the forest and the right of the local people to defend their land (and they still helping and fighting...). And... one day, one friend in Greenpeace, Emiliano, called to me: "Now, we want to you in Greenpeace, we need you". Sooooo... I'm now in the Buenos Aires office, taking a big challenge: inspire people to change the reality, work for a better environment, fight for environmental justice, with a peace and creative way. This is my long story.

environmental activism

Ricardo

Dominguez

b.a.n.g lab (UCSD)

Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater (www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html), Co-Director of the The Thing (www.thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists since 1991, and a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. His performances have been presented in museums, galleries, theater festivals, hacker meetings, tactical media events and as direct actions on the streets and around the world. Ricardo recently appeared in Coco Fusco new video art work *A/K/A* as a strange FBI agent and in Peggy Ahwesh's new film *The Star Eaters* as a cyberterrorist seeking to destroy the computer infrastructure of all the Atlantic City casinos. His recent collaboration with Diane Ludin (ibiology.net) was presented at ISEA 2004 and at the MadridMedia Lab. He also recently became an Assistant Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department and at the new edge technology institute CAL IT(2) (www.calit2.net) where he will be researching and developing a performance project on nanotechnology entitled *b.a.n.g lab*. His most recent art e-action http://www.swarmtheminutemen.com/ with the SWARM.

Tactical Media