Introducing Andie Grace, Communications Manager for Burning Man

Action girl

Even her mother calls her "action girl". Andie Grace is the type of guest who comes to parties and does the dishes and empties the ashtrays. It''s not surprising she found her way to the community, joining the Burning Man staff in 2000, and only three years after she attended the festival in the Nevada dessert for the very first time.

Andie Grace was born, raised, and fed in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). She was still studying linguistics and human sexuality at San Francisco State University when her hobby, volunteering for Burning Man, evolved into a full-time job.

CM

As a Communications Manager, her job description includes: managing the Regional Network; wrangling legal and media-related issues; providing staff management to the media, legal, and documentation team operations; representing Burning Man at various community forums; helping with content management on the website; and writing and editing internal and external communications such as The Jack Rabbit Speaks, the weekly Burning Man newsletter.

Prior to her work for Burning Man, she had been an incorrigible dabbler who was passionately engaged in many different things: advertising, house painting, English tutoring and taking care of emotionally affected children.

Lately she found a new passion: producing independent films, which takes up all her little spare time.

Burning Man

The Burning Man festival takes place in the middle of the Nevada dessert. A vast plain, swept by sandstorms, drought and heat. But precisely at this site, every year, an entire city of fifty thousand people arises. For one week, the Black Rock Nevada dessert is a Mad Max-like world dedicated to community, self-expression and self reliance. Burning Man is a festival where giant art, naked people, bartering, trance music, futuristic cars, light shows and conflagrations all come together. After the festival they all depart, having left no trace whatsoever.

Nonick 2010

This year’s Nonick will take place on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th May at the Bilbao headquarters of the Basque Country’s Public Broadcasting Company, EITB. The focus of Nonick 2010 will be online communities, bringing together experts in the field of online social network from all over the globe.