Jenna Seiden (aka Maven) went solo to her first Burn, found a camp where she served coffee and beignets, held the space as a Temple Guardian, and danced from dusk ‘til dawn on the top of the Mayan Warrior. Now she wears a VR headset or is glued to her multiple screens as she lends some help to the Virtual Burn communications team.
Jennifer Martin-Romme is a fourth-year Burner and a journalist from Duluth, Minnesota. She is currently reporting from the playa for the 2019 MOOP Map blogpost series. She can be reached at burner_madrina@yahoo.com.
Jennifer Raiser is an avid long-time Burner, Burning Man Project board member and Treasurer, and the author of the book, “Burning Man: Art on Fire.” Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, and numerous publications. As CocoCabana on playa, she appears in Ranger khaki, Gate black, and radically self-expressive cowgirl boots.
Jennifer Richter (aka Preamble) is a Meta Regional Contact based in Washington, DC, whose role is dedicated to social alchemy, education and development within the Burner community. Preamble has spent much of her adult career in multimedia training and development for non-profit, corporate and government agencies. As part of her volunteer role with the Burning Man Network, she is co-lead of the Mid-Atlantic Leadership Conference (MALC), a member of the Local Leadership Event Organizers (LLEOs), and one of the newest members of Nation of Makers (NOM). Burning since 2014, Preamble, a self-professed conference and event organizer, always admired artists for creating...well...art. That is until 2017 when she realized she had a knack for helping build and burn things. That led to the building of multiple effigies and temples and eventually to rigging pyro. What more could a girl ask for? Perhaps her email tagline “Because life is an adventure” sums it up. Indeed it is.
People have often described Jessica Hobbs as someone trying to lead a compulsively artistic life, which is more or less true. She started off her adventure in a small Sierra Foothill town and eventually meandered her way to the San Francisco Bay Area. Along the way Jess has worn many hats; running and creating community art programs, counseling teenagers, curating, exhibiting, designing, photographing and creating monumental interactive art experiences. She is an MFA graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute and has been wandering and creating in the dust fest for well over a decade.
Collaboration is her magic ingredient for success in work, community, art and life. This can be seen through her founding and directing work with the Flux Foundation and All Power Labs.
Jessi Sprocket is resident artist at The Generator. She makes large scale art for Burning Man and beyond including The Space Whale and The Pier. She loves working in community and inspiring others to build their dreams.
As a core member of Burning Man's Communications Team, Jim is responsible for event-related communications, serves as one of Burning Man’s spokespersons, oversees Burning Man Information Radio and the webcast, and is a representative on the Unified Command. He has attended the event annually since 1996 and was given the playa name “ronjon” in 1997 when he was handed a radio and put in charge of the gate.
Jim was a reporter for a dozen years, including four years in Washington, D.C. covering Congress, the Pentagon and NASA. He has more than 20 years experience in agency and corporate public relations. In his free time he oversees a team campaigning a ’69 VW Beetle in off road races, including the Baja 1000, and is writing a book on the history of the Mint 400.
As Burning Man's Civic Arts Coordinator, Joe develops tools, engagement opportunities, and artist interfaces that extend Burning Man culture and practice from playa to public spaces. Joe's first year on playa was 2010. Since then he has been a part of numerous Theme Camps, performance groups, and other exercises in desert weirdness.
Joel Balsam is based in Montréal, Canada, and has been to Black Rock City on three life-affirming and simultaneously life-challenging occasions. When he’s not roaming the playa meeting everyone he can, or attending Regional burns, he’s writing about culture and travel for publications such as National Geographic, TIME, BBC, and Lonely Planet.
Halcyon is a 21-year Burning Man participant and co-founder of Pink Heart camp. He is author of "Love more. Fear less." and producer of the Burning Man short film, "The Pink Path." He's won Webby awards for his over-the-top personal site & his "Love On Demand" video podcast HugNation.com. Halcyon co-founded the San Diego based "1st Saturdays" homeless outreach program based on Burning Man Principles and coaches people how to be radically self expressed in the default world. You can find his full Playa Tips & Tricks series at www.PlayaPrinciples.com