Andrew Hoppin

Andrew Hoppin is one of the co-founders of the http://colab.arc.nasa.gov CoLab project at NASA Ames Research Center, where he focuses on forging partnerships between NASA and external communities such as the entrepreneurial community of the San Francisco Bay Area, the global open-source software movement, and space advocates in the virtual world http://www.secondlife.com Second Life. Previously, he co-founded and directed business development for GoodStorm, a progressive eCommerce venture that helps organizations raise money to support themselves, and directed business strategy for CivicSpace Labs, a developer of software and communities for online organizing and advocacy. Andrew has also co-founded an open-source software consulting firm for political campaigns and non-profit organizations Trellon and a geographic information firm N Space Labs, and an aerospace consulting firm MoonFront . In 2003, Andrew founded New York for Clark and later joined the staff to help manage the campaign's voter data and the nation's first open-source campaign software volunteer program . Andrew serves on the Advisory Boards of the Space Generation Foundation , The Yearly Kos Convention , Yenza and the New Organizing Institute. Andrew is a graduate of the NASA Academy and the International Space University and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Brown University and Berkeley in Planetary Sciences , Environmental Science, Policy, and Management