About our team
Unbreaking is a community-powered knowledge-making project, made by a growing collective of volunteers with experience in journalism, tech, mutual aid, government, research, and organizing. Here’s how to join our small but mighty crew.
Our contributors
Heather is a public health specialist by training and project manager by nature. She’s spent her career trying to make the world a better place by delivering complex, multi-country projects around the world.
Mandy is a reader, writer, and work coach helping people do their best work. Since 2008, she’s written about work, reading, and technology at A Working Library.
Jennifer works as a librarian, and enjoys arranging information so that other people can find it. She also likes cats, coffee, and ceramics, as well as some things that don’t start with a C.
Paula is a neuroscientist, science communicator, and storyteller who works with scientists and organizations to communicate science in meaningful ways. She is President at Stellate Communications.
Annemarie Dooling is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to publications like The Wall Street Journal and USA Today with a focus on human connection. She studies neuroscience and positive psychology at Penn.
Reo is a writer and producer who explores how humans tangle with science and technology.
Alice is interested in systems — how we make them and how they affect us. She thinks about messy data, once for The COVID Tracking Project, and now at CU Boulder’s Info Vis Lab.
Sydette is a technologist working on information systems and community access. Professionally it has been around software and civic technology. Personally, she focuses on putting hats on babies.
Val is an antifascist journalist and video essayist currently haunting Seattle’s underground. Her co-workers are all cats! You can read her assorted shenanigans at Haste Makes Waste.
Liz is a science writer and editor, former professor, and impassioned advocate for plants and those who study them.
Jacqueline is a freelance science writer with a PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology (studying a coronavirus before it was cool). She is an Absentee Voting Clerk and Chief Election Inspector. Teaching Dance Fitness keeps her sane.
Erin was co-founder and co-runner of The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic and works on the social internet at wreckage/salvage. She was a founding member of OpenNews and has been trying to make the internet better for humans for a long time.
Yvonne Lam
Yvonne works on software infrastructure and helping people figure out how to work better together.
Monica helps people navigate complex information with care and clarity.
Ethan is a designer, writer, and speaker. He coined the term “responsive web design,” and writes frequently about technology, labor, and justice.
Michal is a software engineer & product manager with a penchant for data challenges. When not coding or PMing, she co-leads the Beacon Prison Books Project. Some extra special beings of the feline, canine and human variety know her as mom.
Gini Martinez
Gini is a mixed-methods researcher and strategic thinker who tries to make processes suck less for all involved. Her work includes improving disaster recovery for survivors of the 2025 LA wildfires. She’s a co-founder of the GIT Lab at CGU.
Liz learned the hard way that data don’t speak for themselves. Ever since, she’s been helping scientists find the courage and language they need to create change. She’s the founder of Liminal, a co-founder of Solving For, and a member of Openscapes.
I write about science and classical music, and have a PhD in viral immunology.
Kara is a PhD student in computer science researching the ethics of using algorithms in decision-making. In her free time she enjoys reading metrical verse, consuming olives, and making popsicles.
Lindsey works on public health, policy, and ethics. When she’s not in class, she’s competing in a crossword league or watching classic movies.
Erstwhile theater artist and forever editor and proofreader.
Chris works on accessibility for work, and sometimes corrals internet strangers into collaborating for fun (previously Bed-Stuy Strong, Letters for Black Lives, Awesome Foundation).
