Molly Rose promotes the civic impact Burners achieve in the world in her role as Program Manager for Burners Without Borders. She partners with leaders at all stages of civic aspirations, amplifies community initiatives, and supports the BWB network in self-organizing and decentralized networking. Molly is especially driven around access to creative expression, process and equity focused partnerships, and finding shared work in dynamic collaborations. Her favorite scent is growing tomatoes and she's a morning person on and off playa. Molly believes that our liberation is only shared, and she hopes to see you at dawn.
Namiko "Koko" Uno is the Regional Network Coordinator at Burning Man Project, where she supports a thriving network of events and activities around the world. She's made her way to San Francisco by way of Los Angeles, England, New York, and Zambia. She has an ever-expanding love of people, early mornings, and hot cups of tea.
I am a new media artist and journalist from New York City who tells stories, takes photographs and designs things. My company is called Misfit Media.
Nicole is a professor of data science and production systems at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, VA. She uses data science and machine learning to study quality and process improvement (and writes books about it so you can too). She is presently working with Burning Man’s education program on 10 Principles-based pedagogy and sometimes coordinates activities of the Burning Nerds group. She tweets about quality, weather, AI, machine learning, and data science (mostly using the R statistical software) at @nicoleradziwill.
Nir Adan is CEO and co-founder of Midburn and one of four Burning Man Regional Contacts in Israel. He’s been participating in Burning Man since 2001. He was born and raised in the south of Israel, and he’s a proud dad of two desert boys aged 10 and six. He believes in the human power of inspiration to change the world.
Blue wears a variety of hats for the Burning Man Project. Year-round, he can be found at Burning Man Project headquarters in San Francisco as the Facilities Manager. During the event season, you will find Blue in the Department of Public Works, handling Waste Stream Logistics and designing lighting for The Man Pavilion. And with the Community Services Department as Project Manager for Recycle Camp. Blue made his first trek to Black Rock City in 2001 and immediately felt at home.
Quest Skinner is an artist and free thinker. A member of the DC Burner community, Quest has served as the Art Director for theme camps at Regional Burns as well as Black Rock City, and has served in various roles from assistant to lead on various Effigies & Temples for the Mid-Atlantic Community. Before Burning, Quest worked for decades as a mixed-media artist, teacher, community activist residing in Washington, DC. Since Burning, the world has become her studio and gallery, the global community her students and audience. She tweets, occasionally, at @QuestSkinner.
Rebecca was Burning Man’s head of Ticketing from 2007-2022. She created and implemented ticketing strategy and operations each year. She first attended Burning Man in 1999 and began working with the organization as a volunteer in 2001 with the Center Camp Café. Seeing firsthand the need to foster community and organize to support the 500+ volunteer base of the Café, she pioneered the role of Volunteer Community Manager. She focused on ticketing strategies that support community, as well as facilitating critical communications to the Burning Man community through producing the annual printed Survival Guide and What, Where, When handbook of participant events. Prior to her experience with Burning Man, Rebecca worked in branding and creative direction, business innovation strategy, retail management, and dabbled in finance, although at her core she has always been an artist. When not working on Burning Man projects, she is happily raising two young Burners in her native San Francisco.
Richard Wilks has been bringing mobile art projects and mutant vehicles to Burning Man since 2009 and has spent many burns as a greeter and wrangler at the DMV. As an artist, the uncharted terrain that captivates him is the ‘form to formless’ world of ‘Human to BEing’. His tools and techniques combine a mix of formal training, curiosity, and serendipitous accidents that invite citizen engagement and hands-on participation!