Summary:
LX Cast has been a product leader working on communication and collaboration tech for over a decade. Recently they were a Resident Fellow in Community at Integrity Institute, a steward at Collaborative Technology Alliance, and the host of Belonging Builders.. LX is a board member at Prosocial Design Network and Chair of the Board at Tech Fleet, a steering committee member of the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, a member of **Aspen Institute's Virtually Human** working group, a space steward at DWeb Camp, a mentor with PDX Women in Tech, All Tech is Human, and Mentor Me Collective, and the teacher of The UX of Community. LX is developing an open source, decentralized group technology called Fractal. They work with organizations to develop communities of practice, and are a founder at Changemaker PM, helping nonprofits develop product discovery practices. LX believes everything is fractal, and how we are with ourselves, our families and friends, our teams, our communities and our culture are interdependent and pattern one another. Belonging = Freedom = Responsibility is their core organizing principle. For this reason, they are committed to their own work to be in right relation as a source of possibility for change.
Community Contributor | Past Employment & Projects List
Experience
Leadership
- Chair of the Board at Tech Fleet, a community-driven nonprofit. We are the change tech needs for the future.
- Led Community Re-Founding at Integrity Institute
- Board member at Prosocial Design Network. Steering committee member: The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion. Past Board Member: Women in Film & Television Vancouver, Youthquest! Queer Youth Support, Out on Screen, YouthCo AIDS Society
- Mentored and trained product designers, product managers, and customer-facing workers to conduct user research as the Head of Research at Marco Polo, contracted with research assistants directly and through Upwork, and managed project teams for multiple other projects
- Consulted with numerous clients to teach effective practices of customer research and discovery
- Mentored through All Tech Is Human, **Lenny Rachitsky’**s Product Community, PDX Women in Tech, and Mentor Me Collective
- Led or participated in hiring committees for Head of PR, Head of Marketing, Head of People Ops, Product Design, and Marketing Communications Manager, and many other roles (Marco Polo, Notion, Olark)
- Contributed to team culture including leading a retreat workshop on implicit bias, leading a class on Tiny Habits, creating a Marco Polo group to share team appreciations, starting a diversity-related Slack channel
- Led product team in implementing feature work as a product manager, project lead, or collaborator (Marco Polo, Notion, Olark)
- Organizer of a number of communities of practice, including ProductTank PDX, Synapsistic Neuroscience meetup, Copynight NYC, as well as numerous events and conferences
Research
Mixed Methods
- Designed and executed generative research studies on topics such as family and friends groups, multilevel marketing leaders, and leader-driven groups