Welcome! In my consulting, training, and teaching, my goal is to bring my experience and training to help you bridge the gap between technology’s potential and the realities of how nonprofits and religious organizations do their work. I can help you evaluate your organization’s online presence, develop new strategies for online community building and learning, and choose online practices that serve you and your work.
The beginning steps for my work were not in technology, but in my own early experiences: working in disability rights advocacy and in hunger ministry with homeless men and women, and working and studying at Harvard as the first in my family to go to college. I learned the ways that power and voice can be used to build on-ramps for others in society, if we choose. Technology gives us new ways to make those spaces, while it challenges us to think carefully about the practices we want to preserve and the communities we want to have.
My work has been shaped by those early experiences and my training. After completing M.Div. and Ph.D. work in social ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary and being ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ, I taught full time as a professor for over a decade at Friends University in Kansas and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, teaching about technology, professional ethics and community-based research along with serving through pastoral work and teaching in church and denominational settings. To dive deeper into technology’s potential and better understand how to use its tools, I returned to graduate school in Iowa State University’s College of Engineering for an M.S. in human-computer interaction, and founded Techtelos as my professional home. I continue to teach, research, and work with churches along with my consulting work.
I would love to talk with you about ways I can help you or your organization with consulting and coaching, custom courses, and evaluation of how your online presence reflects your mission. E-mail me at deirdre@techtelos.com to start the conversation.