Christine Egger serves as a network weaver and amplifier for far-reaching social change initiatives and the people who create them.

She most recently served as Co-Director of Social Actions, developer of collaborative and open source technologies for the global online giving sector (acquired in April 2011 by GuideStar USA). She currently contributes to several emerging social enterprises, including StartSomeGood, the Social Entrepreneur API (a feature of SocialEdge.org),  Thrivable, w1sd0m.net, and Creating the Future.

Christine holds a master’s in International Development, combining studies in grassroots international development with research in the complexity sciences. Drawing from the work of David Bohm, F David Peat, Hans-George Gadamer, and Amartya Sen, her thesis explored how we might hold the possibility of an underlying wholeness in equal measure with apparently separate phenomena; and how doing so might influence development and sustainability practices.

Christine speaks regularly on open source thinking, internet technologies, and the social sector; blogs occasionally; tweets prolifically; and practices Reiki daily. She lives in Southeast Michigan, in the midwest United States.

Posts by Christine

Gatherings – a call to contribute to the Gathering ’11 Almanac Project
#Gathering11 hashtag stream, Day One – a collection of tweets referencing Gathering ’11
At #Gathering11 a Thrivable World Emerges – video and transcript, shown at the beginning of Gathering ’11 Day One
Exploring the edges of “social tech for social change” – highlighting the use technology and social media to connect, communicate, and collaborate