Maker Faire Change Agents: Case Studies from Baton Rouge, Little Rock, Kingsport, Milwaukee
Hear case studies from Maker Faire organizers from across the diverse US, making makers, maker culture, makerspaces and other good things in their cities: Baton Rouge (library), Little Rock (makerspace), Milwaukee (museum), Kingsport (Chamber of Commerce).
Sabrina Merlo
Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She runs Maker Faire's world-wide Maker Faire Network on locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also works on content for flagship Maker Faires, co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA, and recently has been involved in founding a new maker association, Women Who Make.
https://makerfaire.com/map
Andrew Tadman
Andrew is the Reference and Computer Services Coordinator for the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System in Louisiana. He is one of the organizational leads for the Baton Rouge Mini Maker Faire since its inception. He is also a horror blogger, and reviewer for Scream Horror Magazine.
Pete Prodoehl
Pete Prodoehl has always been interested in art and technology and tends to get excited about where the two intersect to create new things. Pete has served as a Director at Milwaukee Makerspace, and currently teaches Physical Computing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee when he's not busy organizing Maker Faire Milwaukee and serving as Associate Director of Exhibit Development at the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum.
http://www.bbcmkids.org
Lucy Fleming
I'm the Producer of Kingsport Mini Maker Faire along with a 9 day festival. While my personal passion is fiber arts I was born into a family of engineers. I work through the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce and the Convention and Visitors Bureau
Joel Gordon
Joel Gordon began his career and worked for many years as a fabricator and designer for the theatre, film and television industry. Tired of the hectic pace, he reinvented himself as an exhibit designer for museums and discovered his love for education. He became the Director of Visitor Experience for the Arkansas Museum of Discovery launching the Tinkering Initiative and created Tinkerfest now celebrated across a network of 7 children's museums. A Maker at heart, in 2013 he became the founding Director of The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub Makerspace, a statewide effort to create a network of makerspaces focused on education, Makers and industry partnership.
http://www.arhub.org
