projects I’ve worked on in the last few months…
Kansas Interfaith Power & Light
website setup
With state chapters throughout the nation, Interfaith Power & Light is committed to working with faith congregations to confront climate change and encourage ecological care as a spiritual practice. The Kansas IPL was in the process of forming when they came to rhizome studios in need of a new website. We set them up with a wordpress site, complete with blog functionality, an online signup and event notification.
Elkhart County Works Together
communications consultation and web site setup
A grassroots effort to connect folks through resource sharing and community building, Elkhart County Works Together (ECWT) was formed as Elkhart County’s unemployment shot up to over 18%. The organizers needed a website to both publicize their work and events as well as create space for people to connect with one another. Working with a short time line and evolving goals, I helped to set up ECWT with a WordPress based site. Currently a forum is in development to serve as a skills bank connecting folks looking for work with people with particular needs.
Collaborator: Ben Beyeler
Open Door Community
web design
A community in the Catholic Worker tradition in Atlanta, Georgia, the Open Door Community has been engaged in the work of hospitality and resistance for over twenty-five years. While the great majority of their communication is done through their monthly newspaper Hospitality, they were in need of a website redesign to bring in new resident volunteers and donors. In collaboration with community members and staff I built a new site utilizing artwork from community members and built on the WordPress platform.
Pathematics™
web design
Designed by Dean Driver and developed collaboratively with professors at North Carolina A&T State University and teachers and students at public elementary schools in Greensboro, North Carolina, Pathematics™ is an innovative new math learning tool. Utilizing graphic elements from the Pathematics™ Runway itself, we designed a website to promote use of the tool, sell products such as lesson plans, and give teachers, parents, and students a place to interact about how they’re using the Pathematics™ Runway.
Reliquary Art Show
communications consultation, identity design, print design, web design
A community effort to celebrate the sacredness of everyday life, the Reliquary Art Show brought artists together in a joint show at the Old Hoke Farm in Goshen, IN. Through conversation with the show organizers, I developed a design concept that we worked through all the promotional materials: postcards, posters, and website.
other projects I’ve worked on…
Beloved Community Center of Greensboro
web design, search engine optimization, print work, communications consultation
With an organizing tradition that emerges out of the sit-ins of the 1960′s, the Beloved Community Center is known throughout the South and the nation as a visionary organization in the movement for racial, economic and social justice. I worked on staff at the BCC to help “tell the story” of the important work happening in and around the Greensboro community. Utilizing the web as our primary story-telling device, we re-developed the BCC’s website to become a dynamic and useful tool in the ongoing organizing work. We introduced the use of email newsletters to increase the contact between organizers and their constituency all with the goal of promoting more face-to-face community-building.
Collaborators: Marcus Rosentrater and the BCC Staff
Fund 4 Democratic Communities
web design, online project management, print and identity promotion
The Fund 4 Democratic Communities is a new foundation serving grassroots democracy in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. Founded by two friends, Ed Whitfield and Marnie Thompson, I was honored to serve on the Board of Directors for a year as F4DC was just getting started. As chair of the web/technology sub-committee I took on building a “quick and dirty” website riffing on the fantastic identity design done by Joe Schram of Sparktivity. I also worked with staff and other board members to produce brochures, business cards, and letterhead.
Greensboro Minimum Wage Campaign
web, print, and identity design, communications consultation
An inspiring example of democracy in action, the Greensboro Minimum Wage Campaign is a citizen driven initiative working to raise the minimum wage in the city of Greensboro to $9.82 per hour. Collaborating with Gigi Burkhalter and other members of the campaign, we designed a website to promote the campaign, collect donations, and provide resources for folks thinking about getting involved. The site now seamlessly integrates an old blog and utilizes new design elements, particularly the bright red arrow.
Collaborator: Gigi Burkhalter
North Carolina Occupational Safety & Health
communication consultation and web design
North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health (NCOSH) works with organized labor and workers to support work-place safety through education and collective action. In partnership with Gigi Burkhalter, we designed a new website for the organization to help them connect with donors, workers, and the general public. Built on a wordpress framework, the site is simple but utilizes rich images and thoughtful, intuitive design.
Collaborator: Gigi Burkhalter
Sacred Grace Ministries
web design
While in Greensboro I had the great pleasure of getting to know Rev. Lucretia Middleton. In addition to pastoring at Faith Community Church where I attended, she is the founder and director of Sacred Grace Ministries. SGM offers scholarships to low-income students attending college. Rev. Middleton was looking for a simple, but elegant website that was both functional and widely accessible to share with others about her work.
SweatFree Communities
print layout and design
An organization working for local action against sweatshops globally, SweatFree Communities is engaged in cutting edge solidarity organizing. SFC works with cities, states, school districts, and other institutional purchasers to adopt sweat free policies. I have worked with SFC to develop two reports that document the abuses of garment workers. The first is a report on the abuses of garment workers in a factory in Bangladesh that produces clothing for Wal-Mart. The report Sweatshop Solutions? Economic Ground Zero in Bangladesh and Wal-Mart’s Responsibility has been featured in Business Week and represents the voices of over 90 Bangladeshi garment workers. The second report Subsidizing Sweatshops II takes an in depth look at several factories around the globe and calls US governments and consumers to support companies that are taking steps toward just treatment of workers.