Bright One Communications
UK and Online Public Relations
London, United Kingdom
Bright One is a volunteer-run communications agency for the third sector. Our team is on hand to offer charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profit organisations affordable yet effective PR and communications campaigns. We help organisations get their messages heard and offer resources so they can focus on core activities.
Bright One solves two problems: Third sector organisations get professional communication services at a low cost and inexperienced PR and communications people get the skills and mentoring they need from seasoned professionals. Bright One’s profits are reinvested, allowing us to grow and subsidise third sector organisations that otherwise might not benefit from professional PR and communications services.
The Bright One team for The Pixel Project includes Ben Matthews, Laura Vergani, Emily Mathewson, Katy Thompson and Gem Young who primarily assist the project’s core team with pro bono awareness-raising in the UK, Europe and Web 2.0.
Client experience includes: Refugee Week, Timebank, Pants to Poverty, What’s Up Information. Find out more at www.brightone.org.uk
Krista Goon
Web Design Team
Penang, Malaysia
Krista Goon co-manages Redbox Studio, a web design, e-commerce and web marketing company founded by her husband, Nic Sim, in 1998. She’s incorrigibly idealistic and optimistic and lives by two principles – you can’t change anyone else but yourself and yes, you can run a business with heart.
Krista co-founded WomenBizSENSE to help Penang businesswomen become better entrepreneurs. She was also one of the 18 women nominated for the Malaysian Women’s Weekly “Great Women of Our Time” Awards in 2008.
Besides accepting invitations to speak in colleges, Krista also writes, having contributed to ThingsAsian.com, EzineArticles.com, Readers’ Digest and The Western Australian News. When she’s not networking, consulting, trying a new guerrilla marketing technique or helping with The Pixel Project, she’s just happy chuckling to her favourite Terry Pratchett book. Her other hobbies include uncovering Penang good eats, blogging (www.mayakirana.com) and trying out new herbal soup recipes!
Nadia Dawson
Washington DC, United States of America
Nadia Dawson has worked in the human services consulting field for the past seven years, serving in various communications roles, including digital strategist, marketer, writer, editor, and art director. Through work and volunteer experiences, she has been able to combine her interests in digital and social media, issue advocacy, and social innovation by working on projects for corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits.
Nadia will help to manage The Pixel Project’s social networks and spread the word about the campaign online as part of the Web 2.0 team. You can connect with her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nadiadawson.
Originally from London, Nadia is now living and working in the Washington, D.C. area and completing her master’s degree in communications, with a focus on public relations, at The Johns Hopkins University.
Shan Huang
Software Programmer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and China
Shan graduated with a degree in Computing from Nilai International University College, Malaysia and is currently a Master of Management Information System student.
Shan works in the Virtual Reality Centre, a computer science lab in the University of Malaya as Research Assistant, where she gets to experience practical software development. Her main role is to programme 3D software using C++ language and to document the software development process including analysis, design, and development using UML.
Shan volunteers as a software programmer on The Pixel Project. She is very proud to join in the effort to raise awareness and funds for the Violence Against Women cause.
In her spare time, Shan loves reading books, watching movies with her friends and taking care of animals.
Rehan ‘Bobby’ Ali
Head of Software Programming
Oxford and London, United Kingdom
Rehan is a postdoc at the University of Oxford. He specialises in image analysis and its applications to cancer biology research.
He also has a general interest in Internet-related technologies, and has developed websites for non-profit groups in the past. Rehan’s challenge for The Pixel Project is to develop the software/code for unveiling the mystery Celebrity Male Role Models.
He can be contacted through his website, www.rehanali.co.uk.
Suloshini Jahanath
Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
Sulo runs the website for the Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), a regional non-profit women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) NGO. She believes passionately that a woman’s right to SRHR is a fundamental human right.
She carries this belief into her volunteer work with The Pixel Project’s Web 2.0 team, endeavouring to raise awareness through the social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, etc.
She wants to change the world someday, and welcomes any who feel the same way to find her on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Suloshini).
Wei Vern Hor
Web Design Team
Penang, Malaysia
Vern is an engineering student cum designing enthusiast who has yet to turn 21. When she is not busy crunching numbers and dissecting the laws of physics, she does various designing jobs – web or print – as a hobby.
Recently she interned at Redbox Studio whereby she was introduced to The Pixel Project by her boss, Krista. Excited about the cause of the project as well as the amount of learning experience she could gain by helping to build its official website, Vern now works on The Pixel Project website from her humble little desk in her campus.
She keeps a little blog at www.the-kooky-jar.com.
