Present Moment builds digital wellbeing through participatory, relational engagement.
We facilitate tech teaching & learning for everyone.
We create connective, generative spaces for discussion & deliberation.
We help groups take collective action now to create healthy & humane tech futures.
What kinds of tech futures do you want to see in the world?
How we work
Present Moment offers supportive facilitation, tech expertise, research, and organizational support for groups interested in collectively reimagining, designing, and governing the technologies we live with.
Featured workshop: Growing Up in the Age of AI
Our in-person or hybrid workshop series invites kids, parents, and caregivers to learn about the tech in their lives, reflect, deliberate and take concrete, meaningful action to nurture and improve the tech health of their families, relationships and communities.
Coming soon: we are currently developing workshops with NYU's Center for Disability Studies on disabled people's AI self-determination; and with the London School of Economics Department of Media and Communications for people engaging on the frontlines of climate, migration, and technology issues, inviting them to process grief, overwhelm, and helplessness, and to develop resources and tools to manage daily stress and connect across differences.
What's your idea for people-centered creative action to make tech work for people, not the other way around?
Work samples (current and previous)
Workshops & Engagements
Present Moment's flagship workshop series brings parents, caregivers, and kids together to share & create collective action supporting digital wellbeing.
Working with the State of New York and HR&A Advisors, Present Moment's G. Byrum led design and engagement for listening sessions on digital equity statewide.
Present Moment's G. Byrum leads a workshop at MIT's Urban Risk Lab on how to set up and use low-power FM in emergencies.
Present Moment's flagship workshop series brings parents, caregivers, and kids together to share & create collective action supporting digital wellbeing.
Participatory Research & Deliberation
Resilient Communities invited small business owners to become hosts & co-designers of resilient networks in neighborhoods devastated by Superstorm Sandy.
Present Moment uses relational learning techniques to re-envision the ways tech interacts with our lives.
This resilient tech game invites participants to set up a local area network and use it to simulate communication in a disaster.
Resilient Communities invited small business owners to become hosts & co-designers of resilient networks in neighborhoods devastated by Superstorm Sandy.
Tools, Guides, and How-Tos for Everyone
This handbook from the Detroit Community Technology Project, created with support from Resilient Communities, offers pedagogy for the Digital Stewardship model for teaching and learning about technology.
This workbook, created by the Open Tech Institute's Field Team, describes the basic principles and uses of neighborhood mesh networks - autonomous communications systems.
Created by Resilient Communities, this zine walks readers through the process of creating a resilient mesh networking kit for emergencies.
This handbook from the Detroit Community Technology Project, created with support from Resilient Communities, offers pedagogy for the Digital Stewardship model for teaching and learning about technology.
Organizational Design & Strategy
PME founder G. Byrum developed and directed the Just Tech Program, a holistic support model to nurture nontraditional technologists, researchers, journalists, and artists creating radically hopeful tech futures.
PME founder G. Byrum co-founded and directed Community Tech NY, a nonprofit building resilience, self-determination, and a shared voice for communities recovering from floods, outages, isolation, and long-term economic and environmental stresses.
PME founder G. Byrum founded and directed Resilient Communities, a New America program dedicated to communication technologies for disaster response and resilience. We build resilient mesh networks with residents of 5 NYC neighborhoods facing risks from climate change.
PME founder G. Byrum developed and directed the Just Tech Program, a holistic support model to nurture nontraditional technologists, researchers, journalists, and artists creating radically hopeful tech futures.
Foundations & gratitude
We integrate practices fom Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village, bringing people into restorative connection through active listening.
Our work is rooted in Community Technology, a method of teaching and learning about technology to heal relationships and strengthen communities.
Thank you to the visionaries, teachers, and practitioners who inspire us.
Greta Byrum is an expert in technologies for digital opportunity, resilience, safety, wellbeing, and imagination. Her work focuses on building infrastructure and technological self-determination with communities to create digital wellbeing instead of exclusion, surveillance, and extraction. She has contributed extensively to research on digital governance, including risks to vulnerable populations and pathways to collective action.
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is a data and operations consultant and digital service designer working toward a future where innovation strengthens public systems, empowers communities, and ensures that solutions to the modern era’s evolving challenges serve the public interest.
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is a researcher-investigator using technologies and storytelling frameworks to open up community-oriented data frameworks and discourses. Todd is currently a Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council, teaches at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and is a radio journalist by training.
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is a researcher investigating the social impact of AI systems, leveraging both computational data analytics and digital ethnography to create concrete accounts beyond performance metrics.
Partners
We would love to hear from you
Have an idea, request for services or collaboration, or just want to say hello?
We are seeking clients, partners, and supporters interested in seeding creative action to steer AI & tech in ways that affirm our humanity and respect our living planet.
Please fill out the form below, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can! Or email us at hello@presentmoment.tech
