Navigating a Post-TechShop World: Bay Area Makerspaces
Maker Faire Bay Area 2019
May 17th-19th
TechShop may be gone, but the Bay Area maker community marches on! Join us for a lively discussion around a diverse panel of vibrant Bay Area Makerspaces as we talk about the challenges, the opportunities and strategy going forward, and outlook to a hopeful, bright future!
Sridhar Rajagopal
Sridhar is an Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, Maker & Tinkerer. A seasoned tinkerer of bits and bytes, with his first ever Maker Faire experience in 2012, he was hooked on the Maker Movement and started getting his hands dirty in all things making. A laser cutter is his tool of choice for rapid prototyping. He also loves woodworking and is into boxes of all kinds.
https://medium.com/@sridhar.rajagopal
John Graulty
John Graulty, Dean of Visual, Applied, and Performing Arts at Cabrillo College, is passionate about the role the arts play in promoting creativity, innovation, and critical thought. His expertise lies in interdisciplinary collaboration, strategic planning, fostering arts entrepreneurship and engagement, and promoting academic makerspaces.
https://cabrillomakerspace.com/
Rachel McCrafty
Rachel (aka Crafty) is an artist and creative consultant in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She enjoys participating in multiple local creative communities. During the last four years, she has also amused herself herding cats and hacking culture at Ace Monster Toys Makerspace as the Executive Director.
http://thecraftyavenger.com/
Mia Gittlen
Mia Gittlen has been an educator in public and private schools in the Bay Area and Massachusetts. For the past three years, she has served as the Instructional Technology Teacher on Special Assignment for Berkeley Unified School District. She also actively supports the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College.
https://krauseinnovationcenter.org/
Sarayah Rogers
Sarayah is an Events and Marketing professional with a passion for social impact. Coming to Humanmade from a position at Dolby Laboratories, Sarayah previously served as Events Coordinator for TechShop San Francisco where she worked with top-tier clients to execute innovative maker-based team-building events, tradeshows, and hackathons.
https://www.humanmade.org/
Yonatan Maor
My name is Yonatan Maor and I am a maker, artist, and aspiring rocket scientist. I like building rockets and robots, screen printing, painting, woodworking and more. My work at MakeX is driven by my goal to push education out of the traditional student-teacher environment and bring it into a more fluid, peer-driven space such as MakeX.
https://www.humanmade.org/
