Dan Arel
Director Of Communications
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Arel is a communications leader with 12+ years of experience driving strategic campaigns for unions, nonprofits, and community organizations, now serving as Director of Communications for UDW/AFSCME Local 3930 in California. He builds high-impact media, digital, and internal communications that advance worker rights and legislative wins, and has repeatedly stepped into interim director roles to sustain momentum during transitions. A skilled digital strategist and technical writer, he contributes to privacy-focused open-source projects like privacytools.io, bringing an unusual blend of advocacy, content rigor, and attention to privacy best practices. Outside work he coaches youth hockey, applying the same mentorship and grassroots development ethos to building future leaders on and off the ice.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University Transfer, Biological Anthropology, University Transfer, Biological Anthropology at Grossmont College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
privacy10
website-design10
website-development10
documentation10
web-content9
content-model9
html8
markdown7
markdown-it7
e-mail6
email-spam6
php6
swiftmailer6
smtp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
privacytools/privacytools.io
May 2019 - May 2020
🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the project by updating and maintaining existing content and documentation. Their work included updating messenger comparisons, refining the About page with role information, revising VSCodium's description, relisting a search engine, correcting broken links, and updating a user profile. These changes focused on improving the accuracy, clarity, and completeness of the project's informational resources.
protectprivacysurveillanceprivacy-protectionencryption
think-privacy/thinkprivacy
Jan 2019 - May 2023
Official repository of ThinkPrivacy.ch
Contributions:551 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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