The Team

Tim Hwang is a social media consultant, internet culture geek, and founder of ROFLCon. For his work, he has appeared in Wired, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, among others. He currently works with Harvard’s Berkman Center, works in Business Development with Creative Commons, and is researching a book on meme infrastructures. He currently blogs at the US Bureau of Fabulous Bitches.

(photo courtesy Fred B)

Christina Xu is an undergraduate at Harvard College, where she used to do Computer Science but now studies people who do Computer Science. Besides being Tim’s comic relief sidekick, she also enjoys rollerblading recklessly, rabblerousing for Harvard College Free Culture and the Center for Future Civic Media, and procrastinating on her undergrad thesis about the history of instant messaging by tweeting and blogging.

Carrie Andersen is an undergraduate at Harvard College, and she likes politics, culture, and the media, and how they all interact. When not ROFL-ing, she plays the drums for various music groups, competitive badminton (yes, it’s real), and watches reality TV as much as possible. Relatively few of her friends like the internet, so she is quite grateful to the ROFLTeam for existing. She hangs out here occasionally.

Diana Kimball is an undergraduate history concentrator at Harvard. She loves both analog AND digital. She can be found at dianakimball.com.

Rachel Popkin is an undergraduate at Harvard College studying Psychology and CS. Academically, she is interested in how the internet influences adolescent social development and identity formation. Recreationally, she has enjoyed a torrid love affair with internet memes since the tender age of 12, when she configured all of the computers in her middle school to load Hamster Dance on start up. (Confidential to Ms. Lewis - sorry about that!) You can catch her online at RachelPopkin.com

Kevin Driscoll is a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Prior to this return to academia, Kevin taught high school Computer Science and worked to encourage the sharing and development of high-quality, free learning materials online. In addition to his work in education. Kevin is a frequent collaborator with internet-based artist Claire Chanel and a hip-hop dj responsible for Gold Chain and Todo Mundo events.
http://kevindriscoll.info/

Natalie Bau is an undergraduate at Harvard College. In between CS problem sets, she researches development economics and racial impact on health and content manages the Harvard College Economics Review. Occasionally, she makes forays into technical theatre, public art, and small claims law. She fears she is helping to construct the most powerful argument against the democratization of information ever seen.

Susannah Roush is a history major at the College of Wooster. She wants to be a research librarian, combining her love of books, people, and esoterica. When her time is not being consumed by silliness on the net, she enjoys knitting subversive toys, volunteering at the public library, and text messaging in full sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation. She is uncommonly fond of really spicy ramen, and was your head schwag-meister.

Oliver is a degree candidate at Harvard’s super exclusive School of Extension. He spends most of his time studying or stopping badware on behalf of the internets (you’re welcome). He also haxx0rs corporate networks (with their permission of course!) to help pay the bills. He has a blog which you can read at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/zeroday

Jason Neal is a senior at Harvard University. He is from Missouri, and his parents still have a dial-up internet connection at home. He has, however, worked for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, as well as spending many, many hours watching videos and animations and reading webcomics. Though he has produced extremely little to contribute to internet culture, he is a total loser and devotee to the fruits of others’ efforts. His favorite memes and meme-producers are YTMND, Perry Bible Fellowship, Real Ultimate Power (total classic), and the O RLY owl.

Matt Blake is an undergraduate at Harvard studying Computer Science, whose fascination with computers extends back to playing civilization 1 on his old DOS box in ‘93. He knew he loved the internet when he found out he could download free computer games off it in 5th grade, and has been addicted ever since. He enjoys both technical and social aspects of the computers and the internet, and enjoys exploring both. While he had a few online crushes in middle school, he now dates exclusively offline. He can be found at mattblake.org.

Kristen Curtis is an art director and culture junkie at Wexley School for Girls. She likes ceramic camels and finger-painting. She also likes to feed the internet snacks before dinner when its mom isn’t looking.

Michael Wolfe is an undergraduate at Harvard College pursuing a degree in Social Studies (almost, but not quite like the class you took in 4th grade). While offline, he can often be found repairing bicycles, talking about Free Culture, or sleeping (ideally in hammocks).

Allie Pape is a recent Harvard graduate and aspiring professional copywriter. She blogs about pop culture at Biggest Mirror. Allie enjoys pancakes, Converse, and putting on her sunglasses like David Caruso.

Rachel Mercer is a nerdling college student studying Graphic Design and Multimedia, presently an undergrad at Northeastern University dual majoring in Graphic Design and Multimedia, whilst shootin’ lasers from the hip. An avid collector of comic books, movie fiend, and type snob, Rachel can be frequently found trolling social bookmarking sites, tweeting, illustrating, reading, or drinking redbull. Most likely she’s actually doing all of these simultaneously.

Who Designed Your Awesome Website?
Page design credit goes to Dean Jansen (see above), and the ROFLies were designed by Jennifer Feller. Paul Irish contributed the cool script that allows for infinite scrolling. You guys rock! Also, huge huge thanks to Asheesh Laroia for donating extra hardware and bandwidth for roflcon.org