Jenny Ryan
Co-Founder And President Of The Board at Sudo Mesh
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJenny Ryan is a community-focused technologist and organizer with 11+ years building decentralized communications infrastructure and commons-based institutions in the Bay Area. As co-founder and President of Sudo Mesh and a founding member of Sudo Room and the Omni Commons, she blends hands-on project management, fundraising, operations and community organizing to sustain volunteer-run mesh networks, hackerspaces, and mutual aid ecosystems. With a graduate background in communication and anthropology, her work applies ethnographic insight to designing inclusive, open-source systems that prioritize access, resilience, and collective governance. She has supported or led projects ranging from community Wi‑Fi and mesh networking to digital literacy, privacy tools, and emergency-response bio efforts, demonstrating an ability to move between technical, legal, and cultural domains. Known as a cyberanthropologist and connector, she freelances on nonprofit consulting and bookkeeping while catalyzing collaborations across grassroots groups. An unusual strength is her facility for translating anthropological concepts like liminality and proxemics into practical strategies for community space design and networked public spheres.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster of Arts - MA Anthropology, Master of Arts - MA Anthropology at Wesleyan University
Danish, Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (86)
wireless10
artwork10
mesh-network10
peer-to-peer9
disaster-recovery9
cop9
gitbook9
react9
decentralized-applications9
membership9
csv8
matrix8
ledbat8
webarchive8
markdown8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jnny/cooking
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:65 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
equalitie/ouisync-web
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 43 PRs, 124 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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