About Us

Erin Fogel

Principal, Projects and Operations Director

Erin is co-founder of DevCollaborative, and has been consulting to nonprofits and public sector organizations since 2000. As a project manager she prides herself in organizing the project details and making sure that every decision moves the project closer to our shared goals. Erin received her MBA from Babson College in 2008.

Johanna Bates

Principal, Technical Director

Johanna is co-founder of DevCollaborative, and began her formal tech career at WGBH in Boston in 2000. In her front-end work, she prioritizes web accessibility, mobile-first responsive code, and progressive enhancement. She is a longtime member of and volunteer community leader for NTEN.org, and was the 2016 recipient of the NTEN Award. Johanna is co-organizer of the annual DrupalCon Nonprofit Summit. You can find her on Twitter @hanabel. 

Elise Weeks

Design Director

With over 12 years of experience in branding, marketing, and website design, Elise is passionate about helping organizations realize their goals with powerful, approachable visual design. Elise takes a holistic approach to web design, ensuring that it fits within the larger strategic efforts of each organization. Elise has been working with progressive, values-based organizations since she began her design career including The Climate Group, the Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation, The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), Actors Fund, and Legal Services of Northern California.

Eileen Webb

Content Strategist

Eileen is a content strategist and co-founder of webmeadow, a firm that helps progressive organizations develop content and technology strategies to make the world a better place. She loves taking a big ol’ mess of content and turning into something structured, sensible and flexible. Her background is in server-side coding and being that odd person who translates between the marketing and development teams. webmeadow's offices are located on a solar-powered farm in northern New Hampshire; her Twitter feed is equal parts content strategy and pictures of poultry. Recent content strategy projects include Marriott Hotels, The Actors Fund, and Legal Services of Northern California.

Jeanne Cost

Senior Project Manager

Jeanne has been managing Drupal-based projects for over a decade, mostly for non-profits. She is a technical, hands-on project manager that loves to transform outdated and unmanageable web sites into beautiful, functional, and easily-maintained ones. She is always striving to offer clients the most value for their budgets using Drupal best practices. She holds a B.A. in Business from the University of Washington, and an M.B.A. from Seattle University.

Clare Parkinson

WordPress Developer

Clare is a third-generation geek, and has been building websites with database-driven content management backends since the 1990s. She began working with WordPress in 2010. Clare enjoys building sites that make people’s jobs easier: from streamlining an admin panel to improving workflow for editors and translators, she’s always looking for a way to make a site easier to use. Her specialty is the WordPress backend: getting all the parts to play nicely together so the user experience is as simple as possible. She is a co-organizer for WordPress Naperville Meetup in Chicago’s western suburbs, where she frequently reminds all participants of the importance of regularly-scheduled offsite backups.

Jeff Hipp

Front-end Developer

Jeff spent three years as a Drupal developer for the Quaker organization New England Yearly Meeting, and has done development work for Friends General Conference, as well as many other nonprofit organizations. Jeff specializes in back- and front-end development, and complex site-building.

Paige Eaton

Back-end Developer

Paige has worked as an information architect and back-end developer for nonprofit Drupal sites since 2010. Paige holds a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Simmons College. Her interest in web technology grew in positions at the Woburn Library, Ex Libris, and Minuteman Library Network, where she designed, built, and maintained all manner of websites, online catalogs, and staff intranets, and patiently explained them all to patrons and staff alike. In her previous position at Digital Loom, Paige was the lead back-end developer for many large, complex sites, including NEFA.org (which includes Salesforce integration), Radcliffe.Harvard.edu, and ICABoston.org.

Scott Birdsey

Front-end Developer

Scott has a background in building Drupal & WordPress websites for large teams of authors, as well as complex front-end design systems for web applications. As a web developer, he enjoys being the “glue” that brings strategy, design, and development efforts together. Scott has worked on projects for EYP Architecture & Engineering, San Mateo County, and Mitsubishi Electric. He began working on the web as a teen in the ’90s.