Fureigh

Passionate about helping progressive causes leverage technology to create change, Fureigh brings expertise in a wide range of areas, including Drupal and CiviCRM development, usability, online engagement, writing for the web, and online-to-offline strategy.

Since 1997, Fureigh has worked with organizations with a wide range of missions, constituencies, structures and budgets, from small, locally focused community organizing projects to multisite national advocacy organizations. After working with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Fureigh managed the website, constituent database and online communications of Young People For (YP4), a program of People For the American Way Foundation, developing social networking infrastructure for college activists to build lasting connections and coordinating low-cost online advertising to immediately increase online course enrollment by 1,000%.

Having experienced the client side, too, Fureigh excels at anticipating usability and strategy gaps and translating geekspeak into friendly English. Fureigh strongly believes that technology should be kind to humans, an approach informed by having worked with usability expert and founding Macintosh project member Jef Raskin.

Fureigh has presented at a variety of conferences on the subjects of online-to-offline engagement, website design for nonprofits, streamlining the web development process, bridging the digital divide, community-generated health resource guides by and for transgender people, and political activism through music. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a graduate of Reed College with a focus on social movements, Fureigh plays guitar in the politically savvy indie rock band The Shondes, navigates New York City on a folding bike, and recently finished a term on the board of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition.