Idea Hacker, Community Builder
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Heather Leson
heather AT textontechs DOT com
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Professional Bio
Heather Leson has a diverse technical background and experience in digital response and open source communities. She brings a passion for community building and idea hacking to her role as Director Community Engagement at Ushahidi. With a formal education in politics and library information technology, she has over 10 years of experience in technical incident management, software life cycle development, customer care and communications in Internet technologies.
A leader within open communities, including Random Hacks of Kindness, Mozilla Drumbeat and CrisisCommons, Heather is the organizer of numerous successful unconference and hackathon events. Bridging information and people inspires her. She enjoys sharing stories about tech super heroes on her blog textontechs.com. Always interested in hearing from members of the Ushahidi community, reach out to Heather at: hleson@ushahidi.com.
On volunteering:
Volunteering changed my life. It is an amazing journey to brain share with global volunteers who believe in a free, open Internet and open source technology.
John Ralston Saul is right: if everyone volunteered a few hours a week just think how their lives and the lives around them would change. Lend a hand and build dreams with smiles.
(Photo by Photojunkie, Podcamp 2011)
