👋 I'm Eva and I am happy you’re here.
Pronounced EeEeeeeVaaAa like from Wall•E 🤖
Eva identifies as a creative technologist, building large-scale communities both online and IRL with a special focus on technology, nonprofits, and immersive events. Her guiding star in life is to create and accelerate global positive change, employing empathy to solve problems for the greater good.
Today, you can find me building **Empact.FYI** 🔺Transmuting Emotion into Action.
💭 Top of Mind
🎬 Impact Media Research
- AI & Screen Actors Guild (Twitter thread): “AI is being used to replace human expression for the sake of greed... And the thing about #AI replacing the arts is that it will have a devastating effect on society. Talented artists are tubes through which God, or the universe or magic or whatever you want to call it, comes into society. It is profound.”
Pay your producers, pay your writers. Find grant funding here.
Working on a database of all funding channels—stay tuned at empact.fyi 📧
- Producing Documentaries with Impact: “If you’re producing a film that has potential for impact, one common mistake I see is thinking that impact begins when your film is complete.”
- Netflix Sustainability (Two years In): “…most of our emissions come from producing our films and series. The production industry is over a century old, and like most industries, it is traditionally powered by fossil fuels.”
🇺🇦 Ukraine
✋ Stop AAPI Hate
- On Anti-Asian Hate Crimes: Who Is Our Real Enemy? "The only way out of the vicious cycle of violence we continue to find ourselves in is through deep, unrelenting, and principled inter-community solidarity..." Here's how.
- Asian Leaders Alliance (ALA) is a volunteer-led coalition of 600+ Asian, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander E/BRGs with over 2000 leaders, DEI practitioners, and non-profit partners world-wide. ALA is an open and free community to join.
🖤 BLM
- #TechforBlackFounders with a list of companies making it simple and free for Black founders to capture and act on customer data to accelerate their growth.
- AAPI Resource on #BlackLivesMatter for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) folx looking to understand more about and contribute to the efforts of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement
- Last but not least, and all-around Anti-racism Resource Guide.
P.S. Huge thanks to my dad who is learning how to code and helped me build the landing page for this site ✨ and of course, @NotionHQ.