ivan boothe

ivan boothe

Creative Director of Rootwork.org, Internet Strategy Coordinator for the Genocide Intervention Network

Greater Philadelphia Area

Current
  • Creative Director at Rootwork
  • Internet Strategy Coordinator at Genocide Intervention Network
  • Collective Member at Why War?
  • CIO at Exotica Jewelry
Past
  • Racial and Economic Justice Forum Associate at Pendle Hill Peace Network
  • Grants Manager at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Education
  • University of The Arts
  • Swarthmore College
Connections
105 connections
Industry
Civic & Social Organization
Websites

ivan boothe’s Summary

I am interested in radical empowerment, bottom-up social organizing, creative social protest and nonviolent praxis.

I am the creative director of Rootwork.org, and work as the Internet strategy coordinator with the Genocide Intervention Network, which empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. I build websites and organize activists through social networks for campaigns like DarfurScores.org and AskTheCandidates.org.

I have been a featured speaker at the New Organizing Institute, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable, NetSquared Philadelphia, NetSquared Washington D.C. and the Web Executive Seminar; my writings have appeared in Idealware. My proposals for the Genocide Intervention Network were featured projects at the 2007 and 2008 NetSquared Conferences. My technical skills include more than a decade of web development, including semantic, standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, as well as extensive work with the Drupal content-management system.

I have a degree in peace and conflict studies from Swarthmore College, and authored a thesis on unarmed peacekeeping: www.quixoticlife.net/tpni

I am currently a member of the Philadelphia Handbell Ensemble, and I help to organize the local chapters of NetSquared and Drupal in Philadelphia.

I was a co-creator of the Why War? collective, which launched a nationwide campaign of electronic civil disobedience against the voting machine manufacturer Diebold in 2003: www.why-war.org

Business website: www.rootwork.org
Personal website: www.quixoticlife.net

"Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true."

ivan boothe’s Specialties:

web development, community organizing, online organizing, online advocacy, peace studies and analysis, radical history, art and design, nptech


ivan boothe’s Experience

  • Creative Director

    Rootwork

    (Civic & Social Organization industry)

    January 2008Present (7 months)

    Powering grassroots networks from the bottom up.

    www.Rootwork.org

  • Internet Strategy Coordinator

    Genocide Intervention Network

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; International Affairs industry)

    November 2004Present (3 years 9 months)

    GI-Net empowers individuals with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. We focus on the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, but work to create a permanent anti-genocide constituency.

    I focus on web development, online organizing and graphic design:

    www.GenocideIntervention.net
    www.DarfurScores.org
    www.AskTheCandidates.org

    Social networking:

    myspace.com/genocideintervention
    facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204803189
    endgenocide.livejournal.com
    flickr.com/photos/genocideintervention
    youtube.com/profile?user=genocideintervention

    I have written a few articles about our involvement in this field:

    netsquared.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=268278
    americanprogressaction.org/events/2007/noi.html
    idealware.org/articles/social_networking_genocide.php
    quixoticlife.net/node/18
    personaldemocracy.com/node/1116
    netsquared.org/blog/quixotic/can-blogging-stop-genocide
    internetadvocacycenter.com/education/presentations.html
    netsquared.meetup.com/2/calendar/5079363/

  • Collective Member

    Why War?

    (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

    October 2001Present (6 years 10 months)

    Why War? works to activate a broad, global movement for peace and justice based on the principles of nonviolence. To this end, our work is focused on delivering vital news, analysis and strategy to those searching for an answer to the most pressing issue of today: Why War?

    We are most well known for our project involving the Diebold electronic civil disobedience campaign that exposed internal memos about the e-voting company.

    Website: www.why-war.org
    Journal: www.galeropia.org

  • CIO

    Exotica Jewelry

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

    January 1995Present (13 years 7 months)

    Website development and maintenance of RingsForever.com and TitaniumBeads.com.

  • Racial and Economic Justice Forum Associate

    Pendle Hill Peace Network

    (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Political Organization industry)

    September 2002May 2004 (1 year 9 months)

    Coordinated two forum series on racial and economic justice and helped to organize a three-day conference with keynote speaker Dr. Cornel West. Also maintained website.

  • Grants Manager

    Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Philanthropy industry)

    August 2002September 2003 (1 year 2 months)

    Managed granting cycle for the foundations of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers).


ivan boothe’s Education

  • University of The Arts

    Continuing Ed., poetry, visual art, 20072008

    I'm just hanging out, taking some fun classes.

  • Swarthmore College

    BA, peace and conflict studies, 20002005

    Graduated with highest honors. Work included a thesis on unarmed peacekeeping: www.quixoticlife.net/tpni

    Activities and Societies:
    The Phoenix (student newspaper), folkdance, Why War?, List Gallery, Pendle Hill Peace Network, handbells, Queer-Straight Alliance, periodically SPAC (vague progressiveness) task forces

Additional Information

ivan boothe’s Websites:

ivan boothe’s Interests:

artists, journalism geeks, coders with a sense of aesthetics, history/sociology/polisci/peace studies scholars, well-traveled provincial americans, west philly anarchist/puppet/drumming scene, southwest refugees, ringers of handbells, folk dancers, mass transit aficionados,

ivan boothe’s Groups:

Drupal Association, Philadelphia NetSquared, Philadelphia Handbell Ensemble, Mariposa Co-op

  •    Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) member
  •    TechSoup NetSquared member
  •    Swarthmore College Alumni member
  •    Drupal member
  •    Genocide Intervention Network member
  •    Drupal Users Group member

ivan boothe’s Honors:

oh, i totally got a cool site award back in '95.


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