My name is Justin (pronouns:he/him) and I am a creative maker.I am best known as an Open Source contributor and Free Culture advocate originally from the United States.I have participated in numerous Open Source communities and led different initiatives to build sustainable software and communities for over ten years.

In October 2022, I joinedRed Hat as the fourthFedora Community Architect (F.C.A.).I work closely between the Fedora Project community and Red Hat to lead initiatives to grow the Fedora user and developer communities and to make Red Hat & Fedora interactions even more transparent and positive.

Previous to Red Hat, from June 2020 to September 2022, I supported theUNICEF Office of Innovation as the firstOpen Source Technical Advisor.At UNICEF, I supported theUNICEF Venture Fund and other Open Source activities within the Office of Innovation.Together with a team of mentors, I mentored twenty-three start-up companies of diverse start-up companies from nineteen countries and five continents.Of these companies, fourteen achieved global recognition as Digital Public Goods and three were acquired in multi-million dollar acquisitions.Additionally, I designed a fixed-term Open Source community mentoring program for start-up companies and developer communities that later expanded to Technical Assistance programs run by other mentors for software development and data science & A.I.

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   UNICEF Open Source Inventory. A UNICEF Global Innovation knowledge base of best practices and resources for working and leading Open.

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