About the Coordinator

The current NOSI coordinator is Michelle MurrainMichelle Murrain received her B.A. in Natural Science and Mathematics from Bennington College, and her Ph.D. in Biology from Case Western Reserve University. She first started to work with nonprofits and technology in 1996, when she assisted a local womenﾒs health organization with a Linux server that provided email and a website. That was also her introduction to open source software, which she has used consistently since that time.Michelle has been involved in developing content and applications for the web, specifically for organizational, research and educational purposes, since 1994. In 1996, Michelle started a consulting practice that served the non-profit and educational sectors, primarily in the areas of developing database-driven web-sites, the implementation of Open Source software, and strategic technology planning. She has worked with a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, mostly in human services, womenﾒs health and education. She was on the board of Aspiration , an organization that fosters software development in the nonprofit/NGO sector, and she presently is on the board of NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network.She blogs on technology at Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology.