We become what we behold.
Linda Raftree

Linda Raftree has
worked at the intersection of community development, participatory media,
rights-based development and new information and communication technologies
over the past 15 years, starting off in El Salvador where she lived for the
decade of the 1990s. In addition to hands-on work with frontline staff and
youth in various countries, Linda has conducted research and provided strategic
input on the use of ICTs in development programs for Plan International and
ways that ICTs can enhance Communication for Development (C4D) approaches with
marginalized adolescent girls for UNICEF.
Linda manages Technology Salons in New York City and writes ‘Wait… What?’ a
blog that is widely read by development practitioners and technologists
interested in the overlap of technology and development work. She serves as an informal advisor to Project
Restart and TechChange, serves on the board of the kiwanja Foundation, and
is part of the Visualizing
Humanity project, which addresses stereotyping in the use of
images of people in the so-called ‘developing’ world.
Linda has been listed
in The Guardian’s 20 Global
Development Twitterati, Levo League’s Twitterful List of
Women Crucial to Foreign Policy, CIPE’s 20 Empowered Women
That You Should Be Following on Twitter, Vodafone’s World of Difference Top 10
International Development Blogs and Foreign
Policy’s List of 100 Female
Tweeters Everyone Should Follow.