What I do:

Building software at kivi.software.

Web & technical consulting for NYC museums at tibetanmuseum.org & morusnyc.org.

Folding paper cranes (折鶴) and building Meshtastic nodes.

Staying curious and caring for all my relations.

What I've done:

Built university websites for fredonia.edu, from 2006-2025 (professional emeritus).

Worked in software, publishing, design, and journalism: linkedin.com/in/jwoolson.

Who I am:

Quaker and Buddhist teachings inform my pacifist, pro-democracy and anti-fascist views. I am opposed to acts of violence and coercive threats.

Always have been, always will be antifa.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 ally
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུ

Why?

For all my relations,
A value change for survival.

No one is disposable.
Everyone eats, with access to shelter, healthcare, and education. No exceptions.

Water is life.
All water is connected.
We are water.

What I find interesting:

All my relations.

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Dr. Patch Adams' grandmother revolution: shifting a society from ‘power-over’ to ‘power-with’.

David Logan's five stages of tribal development:
Stage 5: 2% - Life's Great
Stage 4: 22% - We're Great Together
Stage 3: 48% - I'm Great and You're Not
Stage 2: 25% - My Life Sucks
Stage 1: 2% - Life Sucks

Scott McCloud's steps to discover what MAY be:
1. Learn from everyone.
2. Follow no one.
3. Watch for patterns.
4. Work like hell.

Favorite TED Talks.

Places I've walked:

1982 World Peace March, Irving NY

1990 No War in Iraq, Buffalo NY & DC

1992 Indigenous People's Day, DC

1999 Stop Bombing Iraq, Berkeley CA

2003 All Nations / Red Earth Women’s Alliance / Four Directions March, Denver CO

2006 World Can’t Wait, NYC

2011 Occupy Fredonia NY

2011 Occupy Buffalo NY

2012 Occupy Congress DC

2014 U.N. People's Climate March NYC

2019, 2018 Women's March, Buffalo NY

2025 No Kings, Portland ME

2025 No Kings, Buffalo NY

2025 No Kings, Olean NY

2026, 2025 No Kings, Fredonia NY

2026, 2025, 2013 Nuke-Free Cattaraugus Creek Walk, at Onöndowa'ga:' Honöëja:de' / Seneca Nation, Irving, NY

My teachers:

All my relations,

My wife Laura and our children,

My parents Faith and Art Woolson

Grandmother Margery Busck Weierbach / Mor Mor

Grandmother Twylah Nitsch / Yeh-weh-node

Grandmother ChoQosh Au'ho'oh

International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

Great Peacemaker / Skennenrahawi, Jikonhsaseh, Hiawatha

Peace Pilgrim

Sojourner Truth

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Lǎozǐ (Lao Tzu) / 老子

Jun-san Yasuda / 安田 淳

Sadako Sasaki / 佐々木 禎子

Akio Matsumura / 松村 晃男

Agnes Williams

Dr. Oren Lyons / Joagquisho

Ray Fadden / Tehanetorens

Moses Shongo / Ho-non-da-a-suh

Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi / الرومي

Willard & Laura Gaeddert

John Woolman

Purgatorius unio (K-Pg ±66Mya)

Vasily Arkhipov (±1962)

Stanislav Petrov (±1983)

S. Brian Willson, Greta Thunberg, Bonnie & John Raines, Tim DeChristopher, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Jason Watson, Liz Oyer, Katharine Gun, Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner, Daniel & Philip Berrigan, Antonio Gramsci, Laura Poitras, Chris Hedges, John Francis, Starhawk, Matthew Fox, Joanna Macy, Dahr Jamail, Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, Ammon Hennacy, Dr. Patch Adams, Mario Savio, Rev. Billy, The Yes Men

Amy Goodman, Arundhati Roy, Peter Gzowski, Naomi Klein, Heather Cox Richardson, Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Mark Bray, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Geoffrey Hinton, Marc Elias

Raj Patel, Francis Moore-Lappé, Dave Pollard, Richard Heinberg, James Hansen, Lester Brown, Guy McPherson, Donella & Dennis Meadows, Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Richard Feynman, Abraham Maslow, Vilfredo Pareto, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Douglas Hofstadter, Randall Munroe (xkcd.com), Buckminster Fuller, David Logan, Scott McCloud, Dr. Leonard Shlain, Tiffany Shlain, Linus Torvalds, Edward Tufte, Ray & Charles Eames, Lella & Massimo Vignelli, Max Miedinger

William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Brin, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Richard Bach, Robert Fulghum, Tom Stoppard, Douglas Adams, Monty Python, The Frantics, Tom Lehrer, Mr. Fred Rogers, Marlo Thomas, Dinos Christianopoulos, Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Marina Abramović, Wim Wenders, Agnès Varda, Hayao Miyazaki, Ani DiFranco, Anaïs Mitchell, Nina Simone, Nick Cave, Michael Franti, Rhiannon Giddens, Carsie Blanton, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Stan Rogers, Wonko the Sane…

…and oh so many other ne'er-do-wells and assorted riff-raff.

Spoilers, sweetie.
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