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# B I O
Matt Mitchell is a hacker, founder CryptoHarlem, and tech fellow to the BUILD program at the Ford Foundation. In his work there, Matt develops cybersecurity strategy for the foundation's grantee partners. In 2021, Matt graced the cover of Newsweek magazine and was named one of America's Greatest Disruptors. That year he was awarded a Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in 2020 named a WIRED25 by Wired magazine, and in 2017 named a Human of The Year by Vice Motherboard.
Matt is a well known security researcher, operational security trainer, and data journalist. His organization CryptoHarlem ( https://cryptoharlem.com ), hosts impromptu workshops teaching basic cryptography tools to the predominately African American community in upper Manhattan. Matt worked as an independent digital security/counter surveillance trainer for media and humanitarian focused private security firms. His personal work focuses on marginalized, aggressively monitored, over-policed populations in the United States. Matt sits on the Network Investment Council of Reset Tech (https://www.reset.tech/people/#network-investment-council), and the board of Action Squared Inc. ( https://actionnetwork.org/about ).
Matt is a member of the advisory board to the Open Technology Fund and on the board of Action Square . He is formerly a tech advisor to the Human Rights Foundation, and the Internet Freedom Festival, .Matt was also an advisor to the Internet Freedom Festival, the Digital Security Exchange, Citizen Clinic at Berkeley University Center for Long Term Cybersecurity, The 4th Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and TurnOut.
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Below is a video from Dan Pink's talk at the Royal Society of Arts. It is something that has always resonated with me. It is not a video I created (c) www.theRSA.org ( trust me, you get a lot for the 10 minutes you invest in watching it).
Next to it is a video by Simon Sinek from Creative Mornings @ Galapagos Art Space about the impact of caring about what you do and who you do it with. Fulfillment! It's 42 minutes but equally mind blowing. (c) CreativeMornings 2014 
