tl;dr
I am an American/British activist looking to work on transformational projects involving communication, technology and new economies. I am seeking out flashes of the possible, bold alternatives.
My special skills seem hard to fit in traditional labels, but seem to coalesce into three areas:
accompanying online or offline communities and creating bridges between them
finding common languages and narrative frames which transcend jargon and cultural barriers
adopting creative approaches to promoting engagement and social change – and sustaining them
For over a decade, I co-founded and co-directed The Restart Project, aiming to reduce electronic waste and transform our relationship to electronics.
Prior to this, I worked with @Verdade, Mozambique’s innovative, largest circulation newspaper and I worked as a consultant with the International Land Coalition on a project designed to help decentralize collection of data on large-scale land acquisition, sometimes called “land grabbing”.
I spent a lot of 2022 concentrating on my recovery from Covid, as I’ve been unwell since the first wave of the pandemic. During this pause, I deepened my interest in degrowth, sufficiency, and luddism (new and old).
I consider myself disabled by an energy impairment, and I'm not back to my pre-2020 health, but back working, with Rethinking Economics, a youth movement throwing a spanner in the ideological engine of neoliberalism.
I have a particular attachment to East Timor, provincial Mozambique, São Paulo, and Portugal.
My email is
