
STRATEGIST & IDEA(L)IST
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👋 Hi! I’m an expert in open principles, community building, technology for a better world and some other things.
CURRENT ENDEAVOUR
Being cooperative.

We Are Open Co-op
I work independently on a variety of creative endeavors and enjoy working through We Are Open Co-op on complex client projects. The co-op members are crazy smart and overall fantastic humans. They’ve called me a “tech wizard”, “creative genius” and “expert facilitator”.
DOES ANYONE READ THIS STUFF?
Biography Basics.
I’m a generalist and a specialist. An open strategist. A facilitator. A writer. A technologist. An intellectual multipod. A skater. I’m a lot of things. I create bridges where community, technology and learning meet up.
I work with Greenpeace quite a bit. I spent over 5 years at Mozilla. I am a founding member of the We Are Open Co-op. I’ve failed at a start-up and succeeded at earning a Masters in Media & Education. I write books and make stuff.
I mostly work at trying to make the world a better, cleaner, more equitable place. I like decentralization and distributed leadership.



I’m a thinker and a maker. I teach, speak, collaborate, make and write to help organizations with digital transformation, leadership development, curriculum and open strategies. I work to build healthy, open communities and am an Ambassador for Opensource.com. Find out more about what I do or just get in touch!
STORAGE UNIT
Stuff I write.

Writing openly.
I write for the WAO blog, Greenpeace publications, Opensource.com and many other places on the web. Everything I write eventually ends up on this site, and there are posts here that don’t appear anywhere else. Have a search of the archives if you’re looking for something!
- [FBT] on Trees and ToucansMaybe I’m a tree The sour cherry is a dwarf compared to the Parrotia persica it’s standing next too. They are buried , temporarily, in sand from the construction site. The winter cherry two doors down is losing it’s blooms but it will bloom again, or so they say, sometime in the autumn. The serviceberry,… Read More »[FBT] on Trees and Toucans
- Hacking for Future: Wie können ihr eure Fähigkeiten fĂĽr das Gute nutzen?Was ich eigentlich sagen wollte: Am Freitagabend dĂĽrfte ich fĂĽr Jugend Hackt eine Rede halten. Ich weiĂź nicht genau was ich gesagt habe, aber das ist was ich sagen wollte. Slides sind hier. [PROFILE SLIDE] Hallo! Meine Name ist Laura Hilliger und ich arbeite im Internet. Falls ihr wissen wollen, ich bin Amerikanerin und wohne… Read More »Hacking for Future: Wie können ihr eure Fähigkeiten fĂĽr das Gute nutzen?
- Strengthening CommunityBuilding Bridges for Human Rights with Amnesty International UK crossposted on the WAO blog Let’s be honest. The world feels…complicated right now. The news is relentless, anxieties are high, and it’s easy to feel isolated. But be assured, there are people, even now, who get up every day and try to make the world a… Read More »Strengthening Community