The Board

From Pumping Station One

President: Anne Peterson

Official Responsibilities

  • Run everything. (kidding)
  • Conduct meetings
  • Guide Policy
  • Help with Long-Range Goals

Money Making Member Activities

  • Solicit Donations

Member Activities

  • Act as Spokesperson
  • Correspond with other Organizations/Individuals.


Vice President: Nathan Witt

Official Responsibilities

  • Help with the President's duties
  • Presidential Stand-In when necessary
  • Internals Affairs: workshop, webcam, classroom, new member management system, etc.


Treasurer: Ishmael Rufus

Official Responsibilities

  • All finances/taxes/insurance
  • Manage the Official Member Roster
  • Eye on our Bottom Line/Savings/Financial Health

Secretary: Patrick Callahan

Official Responsibilities

  • Record all Meetings and Votes

Money Making Member Activities

  • Work on Sponsorship Videos

PR Making Member Activities

Teaching Member Activities

  • Heavy lifting on Circuit Hacking Wednesdays
  • Making sure the doors are open for Knitting Mondays


CTO: Rhys Rhaven

Official Responsibilities

  • Keeps the internet going.
  • And since you asked, yes, the entire internet.
  • Acquired title in poker game with previous CTO.  


Director-at-Large: Shawn Blaszak

Official Responsibilities

  • Connection/Representation for the General Membership
  • Run Individual Projects like Sponsorship Videos
  • GGHC Biosensor Array
  • Sometimes also: voice of reason


Director-at-Large: Jim Burke

Official Responsibilities

  • Hackerspace canary. (kidding)

PR Making Member Activities

  • Provide benchmarking feedback from his other space visits

Member Activities

  • Design Expertise
  • Sometimes also: the voice of "make no little plans"


Interim PR Director: Avner Shanan

Official Responsibilities

  • Outreach
  • Newsletters
  • Flyers
  • Responding to Outside Requests
  • Spokesperson

PR Making Member Activities