About me
Jocelyn Matthews works at Pinecone, where she is responsible for building and nurturing the technical community. Her focus is to grow a vibrant ecosystem to which everyone brings their best selves. Jocelyn is a former Rosberg-Geist Fellow at the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley. Her ethnographic social research has received grant funding from the Sultan Grant for Arab Cultural Studies; UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Studies; HASTAC Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance Collaboratory; and the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is a former lab member at CITRIS (the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Banatao Institute. In her spare time, she is Lead Admin of the DevRel Collective, a group of nearly 3,000 professionals developer advocates and technical community managers. She cares very much about the context of technologies and supporting youths, values she brought to bear both as a former faculty member of the California college system and while teaching underserved teens in Oakland.