About Us
Palante Technology is a worker cooperative that provides tech consulting services to progressive nonprofit, social justice, activist and community organizations. Through this work we've developed a deep understanding of nonprofit tech needs. We have also been long involved with activism and organizing in non-technological capacities, including involvement with many of our client organizations. This breadth of experience allows Palante Tech to provide services that are tailored to meet the specialized needs of nonprofit community organizations.
got her first paid tech gig in 2000, maintaining the website of a death penalty abolition organization for $30 a month while in college majoring in English and Women's Studies and organizing campus queers. Since then Jack has learned tons more about technology and enjoys putting that knowledge to good use in support of good causes and amazing organizations. Jack's roles at Palante Technology include Drupal site builder, tech support provider, trainer, and project manager. Jack is also an erstwhile blogger, casual musician, leftist gadfly, and all-around geek.
works for Palante Tech as a database developer and systems administrator. A former community organizer, Jon "temporarily" fell back on his computer skills to pay bills ten years ago while looking for another organizer job. Jon quickly learned that small progressive organizations have specific technology needs that general tech consultancies and tech volunteers were unaware of. He devoted himself towards fulfilling that need, and has been doing so for ten years now.
is a geek in everything they do; including theater, activism, comics, puppetry, and technology. Starting with an Apple IIGS, they have worked hard at perfecting the art of taking computers apart when they don't work, and putting them back together so they do. A queer trans Muslim punk, Jamila loves that they get to use their geeky skills in support of so many wonderful organizations. Jamila is almost always online everywhere as ladyiconoclast.
was affectionately derided by a high school teacher as a Commodore 64 in a Pentium world. He's ridden this browbeating and countless others sitting behind help desks, administering networks, managing databases, teaching robotics and developing websites, all the while singing the praises of past and contemporary radicals to whomever would listen. Joseph's primary role with Palante Tech is CiviCRM and Drupal implementation and development. He has a tendency to ramble incoherently as the sun sets to relinquish pent up energy from the endless hours of work.
