Where Are They Now? Part 2: MozFest Facilitator Success Stories
We’ve been celebrating MozFest success stories over the last two months by catching up with a few of our community members and asking the question, “where are they now?”?
The result has been inspiring to say the least, and we’re thrilled to see how the movement towards internet health has come to life all around the world in such diverse and impactful ways.?
You can read about our first three community member spotlights – Amelia Winger-Bearskin , Philo van Kemenade , and Janet McLaren – on LinkedIn.? Below, you’ll find three more MozFest stories that celebrate success in #business, #education, and #neurodiversity.
Let these stories move and inspire you, and motivate you to take action.?Together, we can move closer to a more humane digital world!
The Ultimate Business Launchpad: A MozFest Success Story
Caption: Screenshot of Hyperaudio at MozFest 2022
If you’ve been to MozFest over the years, there is a good chance you have run into Mark Boas . Facilitator, Wrangler, Collaborator, Participant - he takes full advantage of what the community has to offer. And it has paid off.
By demoing his most notable project, Hyperaudio, at the MozFest Science Fair, he was able to get some great feedback and, more importantly, encouragement and support from the MozFest community. He also received a 2012 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellowship, which provided the opportunity to apply Hyperaudio-based technology in the newsroom – the most notable example being Palestine Remix for Al Jazeera.
Also thanks to MozFest, Mark co-founded and was CTO of a business called Trint. He met his co-founder –?a journalist –? at MozFest! That business, also based upon Hyperaudio technology, grew to become a company with over 100 employees.
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One Student's Passion For the Internet: A MozFest Story
Caption: Lujain Ibrahim at MozFest 2021
As a college student, Lujain Ibrahim has a passion for the internet and its impact on day-to-day life for today’s youth. Through word of mouth, Lujain learned of MozFest and now she can’t stay away from the community she’d been looking for, and now has found.
“The MozFest community drew me to the festival; it was the international, diverse, and vibrant community exploring and organizing around tech and society issues that I was looking for but could not easily find.”
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Uniquely Embracing MozFest Through Neurodiversity
Caption: Neurodiversity e-zine cover by Sarah Peeters
As an autistic person that often finds oral communication stressful, Sara Peeters expected to hang back quietly at MozFest. Little did she know that her plan was going to backfire in the best of ways!
MozFest was more comfortable for her than she expected it to be for someone who is autistic. She ended up having quite a few conversations, which bolstered her self confidence in so many aspects of her life. She not only facilitated a session on sketchnoting, she turned her entire MozFest experience into an e-zine!