Ashley is the Senior Operations Manager at Bocoup, leveraging her passion for organization to optimize business processes and maintain operational efficiency. With a focus on aligning operations with strategic goals and values, she supports efforts in strategic planning, HR, and ongoing process improvements, fostering consensus and growth within the team.

Before joining Bocoup, Ashley earned a Bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University and has held positions in business operations for multiple organizations including a nonprofit focused on health equity and an international touring company, supporting 58 events in 4 years. Her ability to drive impactful initiatives, her strategic mindset, and hands-on approach have contributed to substantial organizational success. Over the past 8 years, she has embraced remote work and has demonstrated expertise in implementing organizational processes, systems, and tools, facilitating seamless transitions and maximizing efficiency.

The web Ashley wants is one that fosters inclusivity, accessibility, and positive interactions, prioritizing mental health and well-being while empowering individuals to engage freely and meaningfully.

Originally from New York, Ashley now calls Atlanta, GA home, where she enjoys traveling, hosting game nights with friends, and spending downtime with her husband and their dog, Boo.

Ashley Goldstein

Carmen is a Technical project manager with over 12 years of experience. Her work at Bocoup focuses on project management for web platform projects and product development projects. She is currently the TPM for our Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) project and has managed projects focused on scrolly telling, data visualizations and website development. She works closely with the technical and programs team to define sprint priorities, provide time estimates for project delivery and ensure high quality delivery to partners.

Before joining Bocoup, she worked as a product owner and a technical project manager in the international development sector in the areas of open data, gender, health and agriculture. She also has experience in civil society engagement and transparency advocacy. 

Carmen has a Bachelor’s in Political Science and a Master’s in Intellectual Property Law from Sciences Po Paris. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and lives between El Salvador and Canada.

The web Carmen wants doesn’t promote digital colonialism and ensures the Global South is not being plundered by big tech companies from the Global North. 

You can usually find Carmen working from a room filled with plants, books and accompanied by her dog Kivu, who stares at her all day requesting to be taken out for another walk.

Carmen Cañas

Chris Cuellar is the Manager of Engineering at Bocoup, where they strive to create a welcoming and inclusive learning culture for Bocoup engineers. 

Chris is based in unceded territory of the Tongva people and their neighbors (Los Angeles, California) and has nearly 15 years of experience building and creating on the web platform. Chris is also an artist, educator and community organizer. In 2015, Chris co-founded Color Coded, a tech learning space for people of color in Los Angeles, and has served as a guest lecturer at the UCLA Design Media Arts department. Chris has also been actively involved in the housing rights movement, and has also served on the board of the Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust. 

The web Chris wants is basically just Geocities and LiveJournal. Let’s get back to basics! 

Chris is passionate about continuing to work at the intersections of digital technologies, movement-building and radical pedagogy.

Chris Cuellar

As a jQuery team member, Corey rewrote the animation and effect modules in both Core and UI and currently maintains the jQuery Color Animations plugin and server infrastructure. Also known as gnarf on IRC and StackOverflow, Corey provides support for the jQuery community. <a href="http://pronoun.is/they/them">pronoun.is/they/them</a>

Corey Frang

Howard is a Senior Open Web Engineer at Bocoup. He mainly spends his time working on projects targeting the web platform and promoting better accessibility practices on the web through the applications being created.

Prior to Bocoup, he completed his BSc in Computer Science at the University of the West Indies. During his time there, his passion for software development grew and he started creating mobile applications with his peers. After graduating, he went on to work in various tech stacks where he led deployments across web, server and mobile applications.

His hope for the future of the web is for people to be enabled, inspired and connected to each other, sharing different ideals and initiatives to come together and build a better web experience.

Howard Edwards

Mike designs and implements automated testing systems. He participates in web standards, and he maintains Bocoup's technical infrastructure.

Mike studied human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University and computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that, he routinely guarded the lives of swimmers of the Massachusetts South Shore. Also he delivered newspapers.

The web Mike wants is safe, interoperable, and bizarre.

Mike encourages you to dance like no one has asked you to stop multiple times.

Mike Pennisi

Stalgia Grigg is a software engineer at Bocoup. They work across different work streams in different capacities, from individual contributor to tech lead to architect. For nearly a decade, Stalgia has worked to build accessible, open-source technologies with a directed interest in projects that have the potential to upend entrenched power relations. She previously worked alongside teams at the Processing Foundation, Conditional Studio, and Mozilla, among others. They have also worked as an educator, teaching development for the open web to college students at UCLA, USC, and CUNY. Stalgia wants to help build a web that makes business strategies based on surveillance obsolete.

Our Team

Meet the Coop

Ashley Goldstein

Carmen Cañas

Chris Cuellar

Corey Frang

Howard Edwards

Mike Pennisi

Stalgia Grigg

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