Kaliya Hamlin works developing social media strategy and blogging for a variety of clients ranging from Broadway musicals to enterprise software companies. Her own blogging has focused on the emergence of persistent digital identity systems at IdentityWoman.net. She serves in a networking role for several organizations at the intersection of information technology and civil society: Planetwork, Identity Commons and Integrative Activism. She is an associate of the Co-Intelligence Institute and regularly volunteers her networking skill for the Interra Project. Kaliya was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada and came to the United States in 1995 to play varsity water polo and study Political Economy, Human Rights, Demography and Environmental Science Policy Management at UC Berkeley. She currently lives with her husband in Oakland, California.