Regress to Progress/ So What’s a Contact Do Anyway?

Farhad M. Choksy is a data practitioner with nearly a decade of experience working with local, state, and nationwide campaigns and progressive causes. Farhad currently works as a Partner Success Manager at Community Tech Alliance, where he supports clients and partners with their data infrastructure needs. Prior to that, Farhad was the Senior Data Manager at Leaders Ignitning Transformation, a statewide organization building political power for Black and Brown youth in Wisconsin. As a practicing Zoroastrian, Farhad strongly believes in building a world where each and every human being can live a life of joy and kindness. Outside of work, you can find Farhad experimenting with a new recipe or cooking technique, exploring the DC metro area, or glued in front of a new (or retro) video game.

Addison A. Evans is a data practitioner with eight years of experience working in progressive technology. They got their start in organizing working on a campaign for gender non-specific housing on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while they were a student. From there they went on to work on the campaign against Amendment 1 in NC and the fight against HB2. They eventually landed a job working at the North Carolina state table where they got introduced to progressive tech and fell in love with the idea of being able to use their technological skills for social change. More personally they are a Black, queer, agender, and disabled Unitarian Universalist socialist who believes in the inherent worth and dignity of every person. All people deserve bodily autonomy and it is their life’s work to help realize a world in which this is possible.