people.yaml

- name: magma collective
  bio: >
    **magma collective** is a "Think and Do" cooperative that is researching and developing projects with the aim to empower people in relation to the infrastructures that affect their lives and communities. Our research and development has focused on the needs of cooperatives and on group governance.
- name: Tal Milovina
  bio: >
    **Tal** is founding editor of ATM, an online magazine publishing at the intersections of criticism, art, and community organizing. Their writing has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, Autre, and elsewhere.
- name: AC Gillette
  bio: >
    **AC** is a technologist, writer, artist and peer counselor currently residing in the Bay Area. A non-exhaustive list of things they are interested in include small scale technology, radical mental health, mycology, queer ecology, textiles, and dreaming up new futures.
- name: Shafali Jain
  bio: >
    **Shafali** is currently building her practice in the space of community and technology. At Janastu, she is pursuing research on how to move away from textually prolific internet through annotations and hypermedia communication. As a new media artist and designer, her work puts the audience in dilemma, triggering them to question the existing systems in place and look beyond the horizon.
- name: Zach Mandeville
  bio: >
    **Zach** is a writer, codewitch, and friend.  He is the webmaster of coolguy.website and solarpunk.cool and helps run a global solarpunk magic computer club.
- name: Annie Howard
  bio: >
    **Annie Howard** is a journalist, historian, and urbanist based in Chicago. Her writing can be found in The Guardian, The Baffler, The Nation, and elsewhere. Their website is annie-howard.com.
- name: Maggie Oates
  bio: >
    **Maggie Oates** is a cluster of balloons filled with warm stale air, cat hair, iced peach tea, the energy of prison abolition, question marks, and bursts of elation. The balloons float around the USA to most anyplace that smells like experience design, sex, online safety or computing technology.
- name: Angelica Blevins
  bio: >
    **Angelica** is an artist who likes drawing cute things and making ugly websites for hidden parts of the internet. You can find her stuff scattered around Secure Scuttlebutt, Beaker Browser, and other places on the decentralized web.
- name: Micah Alex
  bio: >
    **Micah Alex** is a care-based researcher-designer (in training) working with various collectives in South India. He works with these collectives in the domains of open technology, human rights in the digital, art-based design practice, archival and annotation and cultural research undertaken in the Dakkhani region. He also freelances as a content writer, proofreader, and copy writer.