The Bay Area Justice Funders Network (BAJFN) is an alliance of funders working to help advance a justice agenda and strengthen grantmaking for social justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond. They engage in a range of projects and activities that help the philanthropic community to become a more active, coordinated, and accountable partner in efforts to grow and advance movements for justice.

We helped them get setup with their site for the initial launch of their organization using Drupal to manage their content and updates to their members. We also helped them get started on Big Tent which Justice Funders use to coordinate members and projects.

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• XHTML/CSS development
• Drupal development
• Big Tent integration

Founded in 1969, Chinese for Affirmative Action protects the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States. CAASF had been running their site on a very old version of Wordpress and only provided information for their constituency in English. We updated their site to the latest version of Wordpress and further refined the original design. We also developed a multi-lingual feature for the site, allowing users to view content in Chinese. CAASF felt that people who spoke primarly Chinese might have different areas of importance than English-primary speakers and so content as well as navigation for each version of the site were set up to be independent where necessary. Visit Site »

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• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• PHP/ Wordpress development
• Multi-lingual integration

First Graduate helps students finish high school and become the first in their families to graduate from college. Their previous site was difficult for staff to edit and their content had long outgrown the initial site they had set up. We migrated them to Drupal, giving them more flexibility with their site for both layout and content types. We also helped simplify and focus their site structure giving more prominence to the areas they are focusing on and helped to strategize related internal content to keep users on the site.

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• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• PHP/ Drupal development
• CMS integration

Design Uchi helped First Graduate take its website to the next level with a complete redesign. They guided us through a methodical process of identifying goals and audiences, which led to a reworking of our site map and look and feel. Sean not only met with several members of our staff to discuss changes but also trained me in the Drupal content management system. Our website has since seen an uptick in volunteer engagement and earned a 94 out of 100 rating from Website Grader. Supporters have given the redesign rave reviews. — Ziba Kashef Communications Manager, First Graduate

Hyphen Magazine is devoted to interests, culture and issues in the Asian American community. When I came on board, they were frustrated with their CMSs (they were using two) and lack of vibrancy that embodied their print publication.  I helped to move them to a Drupal based site that unified their content management and opened the door for adding many new features to their site to better match their dynamic and popular magazine.

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• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• PHP/ Drupal development
• CMS integration

Gamelan Sekar Jaya (GSJ) is a sixty-member company of musicians and dancers, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in the performing arts of Bali. Founded in 1979, Gamelan Sekar Jaya has performed throughout California, the US, and Bali—in venues ranging from New York’s Symphony Space to remote village squares in Bali. A member of Sekar Jaya, I was asked to lead the development of a new site for the organization that showcased their music, video and members. I worked with volunteers and staff from the organization to develop both the front-facing site powered by Drupal and the members only intranet.

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• Project Management
• Drupal Development
• Members Intranet Deployment

Sometimes we’re our own clients which can have a host of opportunities and pitfalls. Thankfully this one was easy: our wedding website.  Complete with online event RSVP, directions, gift registry and links to get our wedding photos and see the honeymoon photos.  Our site featured a one page layout with a great slider function and all the information necessary to attend our event.

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• Visual Design
• XHTML/CSS Development
• Javascript Development
• User Experience

The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the social empowerment and civil rights of the Asian American Pacific Islander community. A part of the larger organization, JACL Health Benefits Administrators (JACLHBA) offers quality affordable health care plans to it’s members. The primary goal of the redesign was to improve the user experience for JACLHBA’s growing client base, providing information about the organization and their insurance offerings. The redesign also sought to better feature the benefits of choosing JACL over other insurance providers. In addition, we worked to enable the JACL Health staff to maintain and update the web site content independently.

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• Visual Design
• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• PHP/ MySQL development
• CMS integration

OneWebDay seeks to broaden the public’s awareness of Internet and Web issues while deepening a culture of participation in building a Web that works for everyone. OneWebDay was founded by Susan Crawford, cyberlaw scholar, former Board Member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and current technology policy advisor to President Obama. In 2009 they sought to increase the support they gave to their participanted included was a ‘clearer vision and mission, leadership development and resources for volunteer organizers, a robust and inviting set of collaboration tools, and a more effective public presence.’

As part of KEI Creative, I worked with the new Executive Director Nathan James to create a more compelling website that matched this new direction and effort.Included in this project was integration into a CMS and social network subsite as well as content strategy.

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• Content Strategy
• Visual Design
• User Experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• CMS integration and  theme development

Working with Sean on the new Web site for OneWebDay has been a game changer for our efforts. In just 6 weeks, he transformed our Web presence. We now have a site that balances our need for a professional, well-organized interface with our desire to communicate that our effort is inviting and energetic. In particular, I was very pleased with Sean’s original design elements that help to distinguish us from other organizations. — Nathaniel James, Executive Director OneWebDay, Inc.

The Mitchell Kapor Foundation works to ensure fairness and equity, particularly for low-income communities of color. They support organizations and activism which illuminate and mitigate the conditions and dynamics of inequality. As a Senior Creative Producer at Kapor Creative, I redesigned mkf.org to better organize the programs and the new direction the Foundation had taken. Included in the redesign was a online grants application section, making it easier for grantseekers to understand the Foundation’s offerings and apply. The site is also editable by the staff, due to training given after the site was finalized. The Foundation is also one of the only foundations to blog about its grants process and work.

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• visual design
  
• user experience
• XHTML/CSS development
• content strategy
• blog integration
• CMS integration and theme development
  

To all of his creative endeavors, Sean Aquino brings a well-developed design aesthetic, a responsive and painless work process, and very gratifying results! — Cedric Brown, Grants Director, Mitchell Kapor Foundation

Level Playing Field Institute promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation. They sought to better integrate their rich media library into their site and more succinctly showcase their programs and efforts.  As a Senior Creative Producer at Kapor Creative, I did a design refresh that included a new site look and feel and optimization of their CMS and content strategy.

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• Visual Design
  
• Flash development
• e-Newsletter design and development
  
• User Experience
  
• XHTML/CSS development
• Content Strategy
• CMS Integration
  

Sean is creative, responsive, deeply knowledgeable, and committed to the best outcomes for his clients. Sean was able to incorporate many diverse ideas and perspectives, translate those into design concepts, and then work with us to refine and implement the details, all while staying on-time. Sean was able to explain the science behind the art — why one color works better with another or how font selections carry various emphases — and incorporate those elements to create an overall feeling and focus for the website. — Sara Ransom-Leedom, Development Director, Level Playing Field Institute