
About Me
I believe thoughtful technology implementation solves problems, connects communities, and supports effective change-making teams.
- Since 2019 I've managed ~$10mm in enterprise projects through Lullabot.
- I support data reporting for the Lansing Economic Area Partnership.
- I've been collaborating over twenty years to build beautiful and functional interactive solutions for government, business, and the civic sector.
Speaker Bio
Monica "Nikki" Flores is a Certified ScrumMaster® and Certified CPACC technical project manager at Lullabot, where she's tasked with leading the development of enterprise web platforms for state governments, tech companies, non-governmental organizations, and membership associations.
Since 2004, she has led redesigns for the State of Iowa, New Relic, IBM, Green America, the GIST Network for the U.S. Department of State, and Changemakers for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. A Drupal user (monicadear) since 2008, she was elected to serve as board member to the global Drupal Association in 2022-2024.
She supports Lansing Economic Area Partnership in increasing small business revenue and job creation in Ingham, Eaton, and Clinton counties, and helps report on $3mm disbursed to "Main Street" businesses as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
A recipient of the 2021 FutureHack Hack for Good award and the 2019 and 2018 NTENny Award, Flores's talks are collected at http://bit.ly/monicasfloresvideos. She currently speaks at conferences and panels on technology, management, and entrepreneurship.
- Since 2019 I've managed ~$10mm in enterprise projects through Lullabot.
Values
- I default to choosing kindness, practicing collaboration, and working to increase my understanding every day.
- Compassion
- Honesty
- Integrity
- Communication
- Patience
- Teamwork
- Collaboration
- I default to choosing kindness, practicing collaboration, and working to increase my understanding every day.
Articles
- What Equity Means to Us: Lullabot, 5 August 2022
- From Pandemic to Community Power: Mutual Aid Network Wins FutureHack for Good: New Relic, 9 June 2021
- Using Technology to Solve Community Problems: Pantheon, 7 June 2021
- How we Determined Lullabot's Engineering Values: Lullabot, 19 June 2020
- Fostering Inclusion in Technology: Lullabot, 6 March 2020
- 10 Ways to Build Community: Green America, 15 September 2016
Speaking, Panels, Keynotes
DrupalCon Portland 2024
Layout Builder: Practical Advice from the Field
#Belonging - Beyond Inclusion: Building a Culture of True Equity, at DrupalCon 2023 Pittsburgh
Speaker with Ellie Fanning about belonging and inclusivity
a11y talks: Fostering Inclusion in Technology
Ten tips for fostering more inclusion in technology, based on a compilation of tips presented through a previously-published blog series.
Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Camp Keynote
Building a Mutual Aid Network on Drupal on Pantheon - 2021
The Women in Technology World Series 2021
Online Festival, 2021: Introduction to Drupal on Pantheon
Florida Drupal Camp
Case Study: Converting an Environmental Nonprofit to Drupal, 2021
Drupal GovCon 2020
100% Remote - Tips for Managing a Fully-Distributed Workforce, 2020
Introduction to Drupal on Pantheon
Setting up Drupal on Pantheon
slides - bit.ly/introtodrupal
video - http://bit.ly/drupalonpantheon-video#LGBTQIA in Tech - GEW 2019
Moderator for panel discussion on #LGBTQIA in technology
Case Studies
- Drupalcon 2024, Portland: Emcee
Introduced the annual DriesNote - National Center for Employee Ownership Conference 2022, Speaker, Seattle
- DrupalCon 2022, Organizer for the Non-profit Summit, Portland
- Case Study: Converting to Drupal: Architecture, timeline, requirements to move a website onto Drupal 8. link
- Developing Good Data Practice
Data structures, content types, and planning for data collection link
- Action Plan for Diversity, Equity,& Inclusion
How to integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into an organization link
- Drupalcon 2024, Portland: Emcee
EDUCATION
Cornell University
B.S. Environmental Systems Technology,
Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Cornell UniversityEntrepot Deli, Risley Dining, Blauvelt Lab, PEWS ILR
Pianist at Catholic Mass
Praxis Literary JournalInstitute for Shipboard Education
Semester at Sea, University of Pittsburgh
Travelled to 10 port cities in 100 days on the SS Universe
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