quixoticlife

Business

Organization

Rootwork

Organization Website

http://www.rootwork.org

Organization Profile

Powering grassroots networks from the bottom up.

Personal

Real Name

ivan boothe

Website

http://www.quixoticlife.net/

About Me

Ivan Boothe is the creative director of Rootwork, and works as an Internet strategy coordinator with the Genocide Intervention Network, which empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. He is continually exploring the possibilities of online organizing and social networking for social change, and has been a featured speaker at the New Organizing Institute, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable, NetSquared Philadelphia, NetSquared Washington D.C. and the Web Executive Seminar; his writings have appeared in Idealware. Ivan's proposals for the Genocide Intervention Network were featured projects at the 2007 and 2008 NetSquared Conferences. His 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.

Ivan holds a degree in peace and conflict studies and authored a thesis on third-party nonviolent intervention. He co-authored a paper on the same topic, "Privilege, Empowerment, and Nonviolent Intervention" (PDF), with Lee A. Smithey, which appeared in the January 2007 edition of Peace & Change. Ivan was a co-founder of why-war.org, which launched a nationwide campaign of electronic civil disobedience against the voting machine manufacturer Diebold in 2003.

Ivan also has a drupal.org profile.

History

Member for

2 years 20 weeks