What I do:

Build software at kivi.software.

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

Fold paper cranes (折鶴).

Stay curious.

What I've done:

Built university websites for fredonia.edu, from 2006-2025 (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?

A value change for survival.
Hold hands and stick together.
No one is disposable.
Everyone eats.
Everyone has shelter.
Water is life.
All water is connected.
We are water.

What I find interesting:

Durable, resilient healing systems.

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Dr. Patch Adams' grandmother revolution: shifting 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.

Bahia Shehab a thousand times No! (لا). The right to refuse.

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 / 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:' 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

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

Dr. Oren Lyons / Joagquisho

Ray Fadden / Tehanetorens

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

Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi / الرومي

The Gaedderts, Willard, Laura, & Karen

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, Liz Oyer, Katharine Gun, Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner, Daniel & Philip Berrigan, Antonio Gramsci, John Trudell, 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, Marc Elias

Raj Patel, Francis Moore-Lappé, Dave Pollard, Richard Heinberg, James Hansen, Lester Brown, Guy McPherson, Donella & Dennis Meadows, Earth4All.Life, Toby Hemenway, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, David Suzuki, Joey Santore

Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Anton Petrov, 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, G. David Brin, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Richard Bach, Robert Fulghum, Dinos Christianopoulos, Tom Stoppard, Douglas Adams, Monty Python, The Frantics, Tom Lehrer, Mr. Fred Rogers, Marlo Thomas, Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Marina Abramović, Wim Wenders, Agnès Varda, Hayao Miyazaki, Ani DiFranco, Anaïs Mitchell, Nina Simone, Olivia Dean, 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.

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