LX Cast

LX Cast has been a product leader working on communication and collaboration tech for over a decade. They have been stewarding and organizing community in tech, arts, and science for over twenty years. LX is developing an open source, decentralized group technology called Fractal. Recently they were a Resident Fellow in Community at Integrity Institute, a steward at Collaborative Technology Alliance, and the host of Belonging Builders, a collective for practice for people with historically marginalized identities in tech. For the past seven years, they have studied groups and patterns of collective practice and have contributed to the development of more than 100 groups and communities. LX is a board member at Prosocial Design Network and Chair of the Board at Tech Fleet, a steering committee member of the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, a member of Aspen Institute's Virtually Humanworking group, a space steward at DWeb Camp, a mentor with PDX Women in Tech, All Tech is Human, and Mentor Me Collective, and the teacher of The UX of Community. They do consulting work helping organizations develop communities of practice, and as a founder at Changemaker PM, help nonprofits develop product discovery practices. They are also involved in research around funding prosocial tech ecosystems, including an Aligning Incentives workshop at the Internet Archive. They are a contributing author on two papers related to social media and health published in the journal Psi Chi.