John Haydon

John Haydon was one of the most sought-after digital marketing experts for nonprofits and charities. He helped thousands of nonprofits realize their best marketing and fundraising results. The highlight reel includes: Helped Epic Change launched one of the very first fundraisers on Twitter; helped Komen Greater NYC increase their walkathon revenue by almost 33% in one year; helped the Ellie Fund win a national online fundraising contest with their very first fundraising event; helped Habitat for Humanity double their fundraising goal during a 24-hour giving day; and helped Go East, Young Dog raise over $200,000 in 10 days to save 70 dogs from being euthanized. In early 2020, the community lost John to cancer. His legacy for supporting nonprofits lives on in his last book that was published in March 2020, Donor Care.

Baltimore Ceasefire

The ultimate goal of Baltimore Ceasefire 365 is for everyone in the city to commit to zero murders. We are starting by calling ceasefire weekends, where we ask everyone to be peaceful and celebrate life. In doing the outreach for ceasefire weekends, residents are:

• helping each other get the resources they need in their lives
• having conversations with each other about how to handle conflict differently
• making commitments to one another to be non-violent in thoughts, words, and deeds, for AT LEAST the ceasefire weekend.

We know that there will come a time when everyone in Baltimore will honor that these are sacred weekends and will honor each ceasefire.

By agreeing to sacred weekends without murder, and by receiving the resources needed to help us avoid violent encounters, we all will eventually agree to honor the sacredness of EVERY day and put an end to murder.

Throughout the year, this movement serves as a hub for organizations and citizens to support one another, work together, and share resources with the goal of seeing an end to murder in Baltimore City.

Aki Shibuya

Aki Shibuya is the Operations & Membership Manager at WA Women’s Foundation, a collective of informed women grantmakers who together influence community transformation. In her role, Aki is responsible for the Foundation’s member donors, database, communications, and technology. Previously, she fulfilled a variety of roles at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), a national membership organization dedicated to expanding and mobilizing philanthropic and community resources for underserved AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society. She also taught English at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and at one point ran one of the largest Crocodile Hunter fansites on the Internet (Simply Croc Hunter). In Seattle, Aki is an active member of Social Justice Fund, sits on the steering committees of Seattle’s Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) and AAPIP chapters, puts on socials with the Grinnell College Puget Sound Alumni Regional Planning Committee, and helps plan Asian Counseling and Referral Services’ annual Walk for Rice event. She has also transcribed historical records to add to Densho’s online archive of documents concerning the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Aki holds a BA with Honors in History from Grinnell College, and an MA with Distinction in South East Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Shireen Mitchell

Shireen Mitchell is an award winning technological woman of color, founder, author, speaker, social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, advocate, diversity analyst, and a political, digital & social strategist.

She is a native New Yorker playing video games, designing BBS boards and gopher sites prior to the Web going world wide. As an early adopter and one of the few women of color web designers in the early 90′s, she’s been involved with tech and social networks for over 30 years.

Shireen is a serial founder. Digital Sisters/Sistas Inc. is the first organization to focus on women and girls of color in tech and online access. She created the first women of color web multimedia management firm (MHG). She founded Stop Online Violence Against Women (SOVAW) a project to address online threats against women particularly women who face both gender based and racially charged threats of violence. She is co-founder of Nonprofit 2.0 and Feminism 2.0 conferences. Feminism 2.0 is the conference that jump started traditional women’s organizations to join in using social media for organizing and the online outreach you see today.

We R Native

We are a comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them. We strive to promote holistic health and positive growth in our local communities and nation at large.

Emilio Arocho

Emilio Arocho operates at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and mission. For over a decade he has activated advocacy organizations and associations to do more with data and rapidly improve their business systems, often at tremendous cost savings. As a proud contributor to esteemed organizations including the NTEN and the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), Emilio strives to develop and support a nonprofit sector that is equitable, diverse, and empowered to make the world a better place. He currently serves as Director of Technology and Digital Services at the National Association for Healthcare Quality in Chicago, Illinois.

Ariel Jensen-Vargas

After completing her Masters in Public Administration at Baruch and moving from NYC to Vermont in July, Ariel Jensen-Vargas is is seeking a way to serve her local, national and global community through paid employment. Having founded a NTEN Tech Club in Burlington, Vermont, Ariel has also received her NTEN Nonprofit Digital Certificate and has served as an online community organizer. Currently, Jensen-Vargas is volunteering with Mentor Vermont, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, the Junior League of Champlain Valley, the Red Cross, and on the board of the YWCA.

Heidi Ketroser Massey

Heidi Massey is a community builder and passionate connector committed to helping build a better world—one that works for all of us. Heidi has worked for or with nonprofit organizations for 35 years. She spent the majority of that time working on educational and social justice programming for youth and families. Heidi is the founder of CommunityConnective, working with nonprofits and small businesses on Google Ads and Google Analytics. Many of her clients are recipients of Google’s Ad Grants program, receiving $10,000 per month in free Google ads. As a believer that nonprofits should also benefit from advances in affordability and accessibility in technology, Heidi created the Chicago NTEN monthly lunch ‘n learn, for nonprofit professionals. And she is a faculty member for NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate program, providing training on digital marketing campaigns. In the past few years, Heidi has also added racial equity work to her consulting portfolio and encourages organizations to do strategic planning, capacity building, and leadership development through a racial equity lens. In 2018, Heidi was a part of the first year of Chicago United for Equity’s Racial Equity Fellowship, where the focus was utilizing a Racial Equity Impact Assessment on policy decisions in government and organizations. She also trained as a racial healing circle facilitator as a part of Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation in Chicago. Heidi is one of three Co-Creators of the first ever Envisioning Equity: Strategic Planning for Inclusive Organizations, a conference to address systemic racism in organizations and is busily working on year two of the conference with the rest of the team.

Kyle O’Donnell

Kyle is the President of K. Howard Enterprise Solutions, LLC. He provides full-service Ademero Document Management and Workflow Automation Software to clients throughout the world. Originally starting within the Copier industry more than a decade ago he found that providing Ademero software solutions made the greatest positive impact for clients across all industries but most importantly within the Non-Profit sector. Kyle is a strong believer in building partnerships with his clients and makes an effort to visit each client regardless of their location around the world.

Leah Siu Yuen Roderman

Leah is the senior digital communications manager at ChangeLab Solutions. She is a strategic communications specialist with extensive experience with website development and data management. In this role, Leah leads the organization’s digital accessibility initiative and develops strategies for the organization’s websites, CRMs, and other information systems. She supports equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) practices in her professional and personal networks. Prior to joining ChangeLab Solutions, Leah worked in both private and public sectors, including the Golden State Warriors, the East Bay Municipal Utility District, and the International Data Group (IDG). She completed her B.A. in Communications at Mills College, where she also earned her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Computer Science. She is currently enrolled in NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Professional Certificate program.

Leah enjoys practicing life-work balance by introverting with a good book or paddleboarding with friends. She encourages those with complementary interests to connect with her on LinkedIn.

Mark Root-Wiley

Mark Root-Wiley builds WordPress websites for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations in Seattle, Washington as MRW Web Design. More than any one cause, Mark strives to build communications and technology capacity for nonprofits building a more equitable society.

Besides working with clients to assess, plan, redesign, develop, and maintain websites, Mark is an active member of the WordPress and nonprofit technology communities, including as an instructor for NTEN’s “Anatomy of a Website Redesign” course. Mark has released many free, open-source WordPress plugins and one theme. He also regularly presents about website best practices and accessibility at the Seattle WordPress conference, WordPress meetup, and multiple Seattle nonprofit technology events.

Meico Whitlock

Meico Marquette Whitlock is a speaker and trainer on mindfulness, technology, and productivity. Meico is the founder and CEO of Mindful Techie, an organization that—through talks, workshops, and coaching—helps purpose-driven high achievers and organizations have an impact without burning out and being distracted by technology. Meico helps busy professionals and organizations integrate purpose, intention, and mindfulness into their day-to-day work in order to increase employee satisfaction, productivity, and work-life balance. He is the creator of the Intention Planner and has been a featured speaker on ABC News, Fox 5, Radio One, and on the main stage at events such as the Nonprofit Technology Conference.

Mica Bevington

Mica Bevington is the U.S. Director of Marketing & Communications for the award-winning international NGO, Humanity & Inclusion, which specializes in disability across 60 low-income and post-conflict countries. At Humanity & Inclusion she has worked to reach key American audiences through earned media, digital marketing, events, congressional advocacy, advertising, and VIP outreach. She was a member of the organization’s global brand working group, which resulted in a full rebrand in January 2018 (after 35 years of being known as ‘Handicap International’). She also manages internal communications for the U.S. team. Prior to joining Humanity & Inclusion, she held a variety of roles, from speech writing to book editing. She worked at London Business School, supporting internal and alumni communications. At BusinessWeek Online, she covered management education and contributed to the annual business

Monica Flores

Monica S. Flores, Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®), facilitates the development of digital products as a technical project manager at Lullabot since 2019, and has led redevelopment/new rollouts since 2004 for academic and government agencies, publishers, e-commerce, and Fortune 100 companies. As a full-stack developer, using Drupal since 2008 and working with agile methods since 2014, she is a proponent of using technology to solve problems, connect communities, and build more effective change-making teams.

She is on the leadership team for DC FemTech and elected board member at Green America, where she chaired the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion board committee. She teaches for the Nonprofit Technology Professional certificate, started Techwomxn, co-founded 10K Webdesign, and founded/sold A Successful Woman. A member at The Wing, she supports women-focused ventures through the Female Founders Network. She is a Pantheon Hero and as Ambassador for Arcadia, she supports clean energy, and a socially just, environmentally sustainable, equitable society.

She speaks at conferences and panels on leadership, technology, and entrepreneurship, and believes each of us has an ability and obligation to use our unique knowledge, ideas, and talents to make a measurable difference.

Rubin Singh

Rubin is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the CRM space, and over ten years in the nonprofit sector. Throughout his career, Rubin has pursued his passion for social impact by empowering and enabling nonprofits through a variety of roles in technology, strategy and organizational management. While professionally Rubin is a consultant in the nonprofit space, he spends most of his free-time volunteering with nonprofit organizations he is passionate about – from civil rights to food security. His volunteer work ranges from coaching youth soccer, to pro-bono strategy work, to serving on the board of directors for local nonprofits. His experience of engaging with donors, making direct fundraising asks, and participating in all aspects of operations gives him a deep appreciation for the work nonprofits do and the challenges they face.

Tobi Harper

Tobi Harper is Deputy Director of Red Hen Press, Founder and Editor of Quill (a queer publishing series), Publisher of The Los Angeles Review, and Instructor for the Publishing and Editing Certificate in UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. While completing an M.A. in English Literature, Tobi served as Editor-in-Chief of San Francisco State University’s graduate student journal Interpretations, Chair of the graduate literature conference Explications, and wrote a thesis titled “‘What is it?’: Examining Narrative Shifts in Twentieth-Century Genderqueer Novels.” As an undergraduate at the University of California Santa Barbara, Tobi studied English literature with a minor in LGBTQ Studies while serving as an Officer of the Queer Student Union. As a queer speaker, event curator, literary warrior, tech wiz, and jello wrestler, Tobi works to enjoy the diversity of experiences that life has to offer.