Title: Local Sourceress

Gender: Female

Location: Lakewood, CO

I am an entrepreneur, world traveler, and day dreamer. I am passionate for learning about and experimenting with new ways of living and working in community. My current focus in this domain revolves around organizing locally-owned businesses to nourish community strength, and ecovillages as a sustainable model for community-based living.

I am blessed to partner with true visionaries and spend my days with geeks, who I love dearly. I keep saying that one day I'll write a book about the geek phenomenon. Just wait for it…

Where I come from

I was born and raised in southwest Kansas. I have a huge family - my mother is the youngest of 15 children. I have over 100 1st cousins. I have lived mostly in Colorado since 1999, with a brief stint in Houston, TX.

I quit school at 15 (and did manage to finish school in creative ways) to pursue my dream of being a missionary. I participated in a full time ministry (with a religion I no longer belong to) for 5 years.

This lead to me having an interesting, varied, and long job history. I've washed dishes, waited tables, cleaned about everything you can think of, driven a school bus, been a lunch lady, telemarketed, taught kindergarden, and danced on a beer tub. I've managed residential apartment buildings, been a bookkeeper and managed programs for a non-profit foundation. Most of my days are now filled working with amazing people to build the Mile High Business Alliance for Denver's locally-owned businesses. The important thing to remember about my job history (for those who can't imagine it), is that I've been working since I was 14 years old, and I've usually had 3 jobs at a time.

I am Potawatomi, enrolled in the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, the ninth largest federally-recognized native tribe in the US. I am Thunder Clan, and ever learning what being Native American means for me and how I can contribute to this community.

What I Do

My life is full of adventure, creation, and lots of work. Here are some blips about some of the work and projects that fill my days…

I am a co-founder and manager of an internet software company - The Geek Gene, where we develop and host web sites and other custom software development. We've been developing Congo-DB, a contextually grouped database that supports uber-flexibile and distributed data. We are using Congo and Nango to create SourceTree Commons, an opensource project repository and geek collaboration community.

I am a commissioner for the City of Lakewood's Commission for an Inclusive Community, and serve on the business committee.

I am a candidate for the legislative body of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

I also have the extraordinary privilege to spend Monday mornings with Jasper, a beautiful little boy with a magical perspective. Every time I see him, he has more and more to say.

Member Since: Tuesday, May 23 2006

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