Email: jon.voss@shiftcollective.us
Phone: 504 383-4652
Blogs: Medium and Historypin
Jon
Jon Voss has implemented social justice strategies across sectors as diverse as finance, music, technology and culture. His early work as a strategic consultant included the development of socially and environmentally responsible business practices for music festivals including the Tibetan Freedom Concerts and artists like the Beastie Boys, David Crosby and Wyclef Jean. He spent five years focused on impact investing before moving into technology, helping religious communities and other institutions develop technology infrastructure and strategies that fit with their beliefs, culture and daily practice. He served as the IT Director for the San Francisco Zen Center before running his own IT consulting firm for 7 years.
Jon has spent the last fifteen years supporting cultural organizations in their efforts to deeply engage diverse audiences in personal, immersive, and digital experiences. He helped build the Historypin network to over 4,000 cultural memory organizations worldwide, co-founded the Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums Summit in 2011, and co-founded the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit in 2016. In that time, he’s also helped raise over $12m in funding for local cultural memory projects.
Today, Jon is a senior strategist and co-founder of Shift Collective, a non-profit consulting and design group that supports community-driven initiatives to boost social, cultural and resource equity.
A frequent public speaker and facilitator, Jon has spoken at conferences like SXSW Interactive, Where2.0, American Library Association, Society of American Archivists, Data2.0, SemTech; and he's led a variety of workshops at the Smithsonian, New York Public Library and the Internet Archive, to name a few.
Jon is also a longtime student of Tibetan Buddhism, and an ordained Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, where he serves on the Branching Streams Advisory Panel and is an advisor to the Zen-Inspired Senior Living project. He has served on the boards of San Francisco Zen Center and Mid City Zen.