Kaliya Hamlin - Network Director (Bio from PlaNetwork)

Has been an active member of the Planetwork community for three years. She brings her natural networking and community bridge-building capacity to this work. Last year she began starting Planetwork chapters in other cities and this year stepped up and became Network Director.

In 2003 Identity Commons hired Kaliya to evangelize on its behalf in multiple communities, partly because she was doing it already. Kaliya's persona as Identity Woman emerged in January 2004 as she continued to participate in the larger Identity 2.0 and "meta identity system" discussions. Currently, she works on behalf of the whole identity ecosystem, helping develop XRI/XDI and servers as an advisor for several companies on user-centric identity.

An active member of the Drupal open source community, she co-founded and co-directs a social enterprise (earned-income nonprofit) called Integrative Activism, which builds Drupal sites for values-based communities.

Kaliya came to the Bay Area from Vancouver, Canada to study at UC Berkeley, where she graduated with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Political Economy and Human Rights. She also minored in Demography and Environmental Science Policy Management. Throughout college Kaliya played on the Canadian National Water Polo Team and won a Gold Medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. Her "inner geek" roots can be traced to winning the regional science fair and making it to the Canada Wide Science Fair in grade 7 and 9.