Public Lab is open for anyone to join -- please sign up! However, 7 staff members run the Public Lab non-profit organization, which supports the open research community with digital infrastructure, building organizational partnerships, community development, planning and executing organization-wide events such as barnraisings and conferences, fundraising, and facilitating open source publication of the community's work, along with a variety of other tasks. The staff includes:

Liz Barry Director of Community Development Location: New York City, NY Contact: liz@publiclab.org

Director of Community Development at Public Lab and co-founder of TreeKIT, Liz develops geographic tools and civic science methods for collaborative cities. Her background is in urban landscape design, and she teaches at Columbia University and Parsons the New School for Design. Previously, she worked at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill planning international new cities and campuses, at Durham Inner-city Gardeners (DIG) coordinating youth urban horticulture enterprise, and has travelled around the country catalyzing interaction among strangers with a “Talk To Me” sign – a project that received international press including the New York Times, AP, CNN, Oprah and NPR’s This American Life. She likes to play outside.

Becki Chall Development Manager Location: New Orleans, LA Contact: becki@publiclab.org

Development Manager Becki Chall comes to Public Lab after three years leading development efforts for Global Green USA’s Gulf Coast programs. In a past life, she worked as an environmental consultant in Washington, DC for a variety of government clients. Becki holds an MA in International Development and Natural Resource Management from The George Washington University and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan. While earning her degrees, she completed fieldwork in Australia, Mexico, Cuba, and South Africa. She is a native of Michigan and spends her free time planning her next travel adventure, eating her way around New Orleans, tending her garden, and hanging out with her adorable mutt, Bean.

Shannon Dosemagen Executive Director Location: New Orleans, LA Contact: shannon@publiclab.org or 504.239.4642

A founder of Public Lab, Shannon is based in New Orleans as Executive Director of the organization, overseeing the work of the Public Lab nonprofit.With a background in community organizing and education, Shannon held positions with the Anthropology and Geography Department at Louisiana State University as a Community Researcher and Ethnographer on a study about the social impacts of the BP oil spill in coastal Louisiana and worked at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, conducting the first on-the-ground health and economic impact surveying in Louisiana post-spill. Shannon is specifically interested in infusing traditional organizing methods of the environmental sector with new media technologies and tools.

She has an MS in Anthropology and Nonprofit Management and has worked with nonprofits for over fourteen years. She is a 2013 Environmental Leadership Program Fellow and current Senior Fellow, a 2012 Loyola University Institute for Environmental Communications Fellow, on the advisory board of Global Community Monitor, on the Advisory Board of the Louisiana Public Health Institute Healthy Communities Coalition, a current member of the Public Participation in Scientific Research web and communications steering committee (working on developing the Citizen Science Association), on the Leaders Council for the National Parks Conservation Association, a member of the Louisiana Bar Association technology committee and a consultant for the New Orleans Food and Farm Network on developing a toolkit for land access and urban farming.

Noah Hochman Civic Kits Fulfillment Coordinator Location: Portland, OR contact: noah@publiclab.org

Noah serves as Public Lab’s Retail Fulfillment Coordinator, assisting with Civic Information Starter Kit production, shipping, and customer service. Based in Portland, OR, he has participated as a Facilitator and Organizer of Climate Justice Portland since 2011 where he is responsible for coordinating educational and solidarity actions focused on addressing the root causes of climate change and the intersection of the environment and social justice. He has a BS in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning from University of California-Davis.

Stevie Lewis Outreach Manager Location: New Orleans, LA Contact: stevie@publiclab.org

Stevie Lewis comes to Public Lab with a background in environmental studies and community development. She has held positions as Volunteer Coordinator for the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Mississippi, Resource Advisor for the National Park Service in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, and as Watershed Coordinator for the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring, a non-profit focused on promoting citizen science in aquatics. Stevie’s interest in building community resilience through environmental initiatives includes community and environmental work in far reaching corners of Kenya, Thailand, Botswana and Scotland.

Stevie holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Dickinson College. As a 2012 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, Stevie completed a MSc in Environment and Development from the University of Edinburgh. Her academic work and dissertation earned distinction through the university and she completed her studies first in class. In her spare time, Stevie enjoys outdoor actives including canoeing, fishing and above all, hiking. Stevie is excited to join the team at Public Lab and is eager to get involved.

Stewart Long Director of Geography and Data Location: Oakland, CA Contact: stewart@publiclab.org

A founding member of Public Lab, Mathew is an artist and designer whose work has been exhibited internationally. As Public Lab’s Director of Production, Mathew coordinates the design, manufacturing, and distribution of Public Lab kits, and has expertise in open hardware design, and technology and arts education, with a focus on involving and training non-technical participants in technology deployment. Mathew has worked on technology education for eight years, both with youth programs and arts education. He became involved in Grassroots Mapping through materials testing and the design of low-cost balloons and kites.

Mathew Lippincott Director of Production Location: Portland, OR Contact: mathew@publiclab.org

A founding member of Public Lab, Mathew is an artist and designer whose work has been exhibited internationally. As Public Lab’s Director of Production, Mathew coordinates the design, manufacturing, and distribution of Public Lab kits, and has expertise in open hardware design, and technology and arts education, with a focus on involving and training non-technical participants in technology deployment. Mathew has worked on technology education for eight years, both with youth programs and arts education. He became involved in Grassroots Mapping through materials testing and the design of low-cost balloons and kites.

Jeffrey Warren Research Coordinator Location: Somerville, MA Contact: jeff@publiclab.org

Founder of Grassroots Mapping and co-founder of Public Lab, Jeff now serves as Public Lab’s Director of Research. He is a fellow at MIT's Center for Civic Media, on the board of the Open Source Hardware Association, on the advisory board of Personal Democracy Media's WeGov, and an advocate of open source software, hardware, and data. With 10 years of experience in project management and software architecture in open source code, he has founded and contributed to dozens of widely used software projects, from data visualization to geospatial applications. His expertise in user experience, interface and graphic design have guided his work both in industry, consulting and designing for GE and Intel, as well as in the academic and open source space.

Public Lab was co-founded in 2011 by Liz Barry, Shannon Dosemagen, Adam Griffith, Mathew Lippincott, Stewart Long, Jeff Warren and Sara Wylie.