Community

The groups and people I show up for, and how you can too.

Most of the good things in my life came from a room full of people who cared about the same thing. This page is the list of those rooms in Philadelphia — the ones I'm part of now, the ones I help run, and a standing invitation to join any of them.

Where I show up

• Junior youth program, Cobbs Creek — a Bahá'í-inspired program for middle schoolers in West Philadelphia: academics, service projects, and moral empowerment. I lead a team of college-aged mentors and facilitate a weekly group, plus camps a few times a year around Greater Philadelphia.
• Summer of Service — a month-long service program for 100+ participants each summer. I coordinate it: a team of 25 counselors and the budget that keeps it running.

Things I help run

• TransportationCamp PHL — an annual un-conference for students and professionals across transit, technology, and urban planning. About 150 people, ten organizers, and a schedule nobody sets in advance.
• Penn Claude Builder Club — the builder community I started at Penn as Anthropic's Claude Builder Ambassador. Technical workshops, fireside chats on AI safety and its economic impact, and a Penn × Anthropic hackathon.

Join in

If any of this sounds like your kind of room, write to me. No credentials required — showing up is the whole qualification. If you run something you think I should know about, I'd like to hear about that too.