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Author: Samantha Shain

I work as a Salesforce system administrator and declarative developer for a philanthropic foundation and I organize for social justice with EQAT's Power Local Green Jobs campaign in Philadelphia. When I am not working, organizing and data wrangling, I am a prolific knitter. I am opinionated about potlucks, philanthropy, public transit, social movement strategy and gender equity. I fantasize about getting around on a motor scooter. www.pronoun.is/she.
June 12, 2022 Samantha Shain Civil Writes, Spreadsheets, Uncategorized

volunteer management, civil rights style

A peak at several ways of organizing real data about volunteers in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement and how to embrace a civil-rights-movement-informed data culture in your work today!

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 Samantha Shain Uncategorized

reform vs revolution ii

What can Rosa Luxemburg and Marxist principles teach technologists about how to make change?

June 2, 2022 Samantha Shain Uncategorized

generating diverse names in Snowfakery

Exploring how to generate synthetic data that satisfy our demands for race and gender equity

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 Samantha Shain Uncategorized

[roundup] extreme collaboration, tdaa edition

I am pushing past my limits with collaborations! Check in with some of the projects I'm up to, and why they are so special.

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Samantha Shain Spreadsheets

How to interpret survey data in Google Sheets with dynamic charts and drop down menus

Sorting through Google Form survey responses? What if I told you that you didn't have to rely on the auto charts from Google Forms, and instead, you could develop a fully automated, responsive, Google sheets dashboard for disaggregating data and drawing insights from the data? Here's how!

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

asking pragmatic questions about snowfakery

Grappling with my learning journey on Snowfakery. Striving to make the installation process easier is a noble effort, but not to the exclusion of learning fundamental concepts.

April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 Samantha Shain Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer, Spreadsheets

Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer: Or Else?

What should a social justice movement leader do when his spreadsheets aren't behaving properly? Email the Spreadsheet Whisperer, of course!

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce

exploring salesforce PMM for foundations

I lay out a data model for how foundations can measure their impact on nonprofit capacity building by using PMM in addition to their chosen grantmaking datamodel.

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Samantha Shain Ethical Tech, Salesforce, Spreadsheets, Uncategorized

NEW VIDEOS | practicing cognitive flexibility with my bestie

A retrospective on the Emily and Samantha collab + Emily and Samantha tackle cognitive flexibility!

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

nice to meet you, apsona 💃

Read on in this blog post to see key lessons I've learned in my first month of using Apsona, as illustrated by GIFs from Schitt's Creek.

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