A founding member of the DNE community, Jimi is a dancer, drummer, DJ, computer tech and security expert, RC pilot, and driver of all types of vehicles. Jimi served as a regional rep for the first 8 years of DNE. Sole proprietor of Iguana Computers and a longtime member of the EarthSpirit Community, Jimi has been a social activist since college, doing work around race, privilege, and gender.

Other highlights of Jimi’s work and life include: work on social projects to help cross-pollinate and create communities by setting up a camp for DNE at the Rainbow gathering, and networking different communities; serving for 15 years as co-chair on the Community Change Inc.’s Board of Directors; and joining the DNE Board in 2017 to help in this transitional time in the life of DNE. Community Change Inc. is a Boston nonprofit with the mission of education about systemic racism and white privilege.