Derek Caelin Email & Phone Number

Rocky Hill, Ct, Us

PM on startup sustainability tech platform, Terraso. Manage design team and work with co-design partners around the world to build technology for mapping, community building, and landscape management. Train on data collection, mapping, and storytelling. Collaborate with designers and engineers to create easy-to-use, mobile and offline-friendly, data-respecting and localized tools.

New Haven, Connecticut

Washington, Dc

Developed impact data collection and visualization infrastructure to share and showcase global network activities - data entry from seven global hubs, tracking campaigns, events, and lessons learned. Developed data-scraping skill for open-source digital assistant Mycroft. Managed redesign a multi-stakeholder social platform for civil society organizations and activists. Designed and implemented a multi-service grants process. Overhauled team technology suite (communication, collaboration, data management, etc.). Created Digital Toolbox, a crowdsourced collection of low-cost, easy to use tools and services that can be leveraged for communication, campaign, and event activities of the network.

Washington, Dc

Manage PeaceTech Exchanges: a project funded by the U.S. State Department to connect 1000+ conflict zone local and international technologists to civil society organizations and local government leaders. Train participants on the application of low-cost, easy-to-implement technologies for a variety of purposes, including civic engagement, transparency and accountability, communication and fundraising. Perform organized conferences in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Uganda and Costa Rica.Manage grants program attached to PeaceTech Exchanges - nearly $250,000 in awards provided to date. Iraqi, Pakistani, and Afghani civil society projects that were funded include initiatives to crowdmap attacks and threats on journalists, the use of citizen journalism tools to create documentaries, data gathering from refugee camps using smart phones, and games for empathy building.Mentored teenage girls from the Dharavi slum in Mumbai in creating an app to protect women from harassment and sexual violence and to run a crowdfunding campaign gathering more than $11,000.Specialization in data visualization and graphic design- experience creating visualizations using a variety of platforms to explain M&E and research data.Created the PeaceTech Wiki - a free technology learning resource for peacebuilders, activists, and nonprofits.Published in Foreign Policy on Games for Peacebuilding, “Can Your Playstation Stop a War?” in an analysis of the use of games for peacebuilding, science, education and social change.Co Founder of the Peace Game Exchange Group, a gaming community dedicated to conversations around the production and design of games for social good. Facilitated workshops on designing Games for Peacebuilding at the 2015 Build Peace Conference and 2016 PeaceTech Summit. Advisor to the peace games projects, Peace Superheroes and Culturama.Developed prototpye for Salama, a survey tool that provides customized feedback to journalists and activists in conflict zones.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Published The Captain's Log - a game about being lost in space and finding your way home.Founded startup indie game studio Send More People, published game on Apple App Store and Google Play StoreParticipated in and organized game jamsCreated audio and visual assets for popularly reviewed mobile game, ShapedDigitized educational board game for children learning about the impact of advertising

Washington, Dc

Administer PeaceTech Exchanges: Iraq, a $2.5 million project funded by the U.S. State Department to train more than 180 civil society organizations and local government leaders in the use of low-cost, easy-to-implement technologies to improve government transparency and accountabilityManage and oversee $200,000 grants program attached to PeaceTech Exchanges. Iraqi civil society projects that were funded include initiatives to crowdmap attacks and threats on journalists, media training for internally displaced Iraqis, and a project to form a network of Iraqi information law expertsMentored teenage girls from the Dharavi slum in Mumbai in creating an app to protect women from harassment and sexual violence.Designed monitoring and evaluation process for PeaceTech Lab projects in IraqManaged social media project geared towards mobilizing Iraqi youth for participating in civil societyResearched technological, infrastructural, political environments in developing countries and conflict zonesCreated websites, apps, tutorial videos, tee-shirts, maps, logos, banners, etc

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Administrate day-to-day running of the institute, manage financial affairs, run social media and web presences, represent organization to the public.Renovated institute website: implemented social media, event transcripts, videos, and photo galleries. Edited HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Created all organization graphics, including advertising.Redesigned Institute logo in Adobe Photoshop. Edited and published videos of Institute events. Established and serve as Editor for the Institute blog. Organize contributors, edit submissions, publish posts and advertise them.Administrated Institute social media, grew social media followers from less than 100 to more than 1,300.Organized events, including week-long training sessions for 40 official representatives from the People's Republic of China and a speaking event for the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

Schedule and coordinate speaking and dinner events with important speakers, authors, activists, and members of government involved with Middle Eastern affairs.

Provided information concerning the park’s history, culture, services, and events to park goersOrganized and drafted correspondence to park goersActed as primary point of contact between the islands and the mainland on days the supervisor is absent

Masters, Middle East Studies, Conflict Resolution

Activities and Societies: Banville Fellow, Study Abroad, Cairo 2010Capstone Thesis - Iran's Influence on Kuwaiti Policy towards Domestic.

Bachelor Of Arts, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Honors Program Scholar, Semesters Abroad in 2006 & 2007, Senator in Student Government Association, Honors.