OpenCivics Stewards are the facilitators and administrators of the network and consortium. They hold the space between members and the infrastructure required to scaffold collaboration. The current stewards are the co-founders of OpenCivics, Patricia Parkinson, Benjamin Life, and Spencer Saar Cavanaugh.
📧: benjamin [at] opencivics [dot] co
Telegram: @omniharmonic
I seem to be a verb... Benjamin Life is a civic innovator, community organizer, and artist focused on anti-rivalrous decentralized organizations as a mechanism for systemic and cultural adaptation. His work weaves together both the mythos and practical actualization of a more beautiful world, a world in which all human beings are empowered as agents to co-steward communities, cultures, and ecologies that are thriving, resilient, and participatory.
Leveraging a large network of systemic innovators, his work as a co-founder of OpenCivics serves to catalyze a decentralized research, design, and coordination body able to address the root drivers of civilizational collapse. As a cultural leader, Benjamin produces writing, video, and experiences that express the cultural code of a life-affirming civilization.
📧: patricia [at] opencivics [dot] co
Telegram: @patriciaparkinson
Patricia Parkinson is a protopian design futurist, systems architect and experience artist working at the intersections of human and natural systems, utilizing a combination of design and systems thinking to envision new futures and the processes required to enable them. She is a core steward of OpenCivics as well as a governance and engagement strategic advisor for Burning Man Project.
Patricia brings 18 years of practical and systematic expertise in both the theoretical and embodied application of decentralized methods for deep cultural and social change. Her previous experience working on the cutting edge of decentralization, network governance, participatory design, and frameworks for open agent-centric collaboration inform her ongoing practice as a polymathic consultant on pioneering projects with deep cultural and ecological transformative impact.
𝕏: @clinamenic
📧: spencer [at] opencivics [dot] co
Telegram: @clinamenic
Spencer Saar Cavanaugh has held leadership positions in the DAO space for the last three years, and now provides governance counsel and graphic design services through Clinamenic LLC. With a passion for supporting digital public infrastructure and experimenting with public goods funding mechanisms, Spencer has contributed to various nonprofit tech projects across the realms of advocacy, education, and journalism.