Full Name
Deborah Tien
Job Title
Founding Steward
Organization
Relational Tech Project
Speaker Bio

Deborah Tien is the Co-Founder of the Relational Tech Project, exploring how to support people to build ‘small is beautiful’ technologies to meet the needs of the places they live. This project emerged after a few years of building relationships with neighborhood stewards around the USA, experimenting with ways technology could support their work via her company Common Agency. Before this, she spent about a decade overseas, primarily leading a local appropriate technology wood & metal shop in Arusha, Tanzania. 

Deborah Tien