MobileActive.org has very small but hyperactive team. Right now, we are:
Katrin Verclas
Katrin is the co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org, a global network of practitioners using mobile phones for social impact.
Katrin is currently working on mobile projects in good governance and accountability, and political participation in emerging democracies. She is also leading a team focused on mobile security tools for human rights defenders in represssive regimes.
A native of Germany, she has written widely on mobile phones for organizing, advocacy, and citizen participation for civil society organizations.
She has previously led several nonprofit organizations, including as the Executive Director of NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network, the national association of IT professionals working in the more than one million nonprofit organizations in the United States. She was a 2009 TED Fellow, a 2010 fellow at the MIT Media Lab, and was named by Fast Company one of the most "Influential Women in Tech" in 2011.
Melissa Ulbricht
Melissa is the project manager at MobileActive for the Mobile Media Toolkit, a resource for journalists, citizen reporters and news organizations on how to use mobiles in media.
Melissa holds a master's degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri. At Mizzou, she produced a weekly international radio program called Global Journalist. Melissa's studies focused on international communication and issues of press freedom. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her undergraduate studies.
Melissa Loudon
Melissa is currently a PhD student in Los Angeles. Previously, she was Research Officer for the Spatial Data Management group at the University of Cape Town in South Africa where she was researching the use of mobile technologies in drinking water quality management, particularly in rural community supplies.
Melissa's work for MobileActive.org includes frequent software reviews and how-to materials that explain for non-technical users how to deploy mobile technologies.
Prior to her work at the University of Cape Town and with MobileActive, she was a software engineer at Cell Life, a South African NGO, where she focused on Java development in an open source environment. She holds a Master's Degree from the Univerwsity of Manchester in ICTs for Development.
Our Board
MobileActive.org is a corporation in the state of Delaware. We are currently a project of the Nonprofit Technology Network, pending our nonprofit status in the United States. For more about NTEN and its board, which governs MobileActive.org, please go to NTEN's web site.
