Camille Acey is a former tech worker, a mom, a community organizer, and a conscious closures consultant. She runs The Wind Down, an independent studio supporting charities, nonprofits, cooperatives, and other social impact projects and organizations in exploring, designing, and delivering better mergers and endings.
Over the past 25 years, Camille has worked with student housing cooperatives, tech startups, open source projects, non-profits, and activist groups. Camille was a co-founder of the Collective for Liberation, Ecology, and Technology (CoLET), a radical feminist tech collective. She also served as an advisor to The Ada Initiative (now defunct) and The Maintainers, as well as board chair for Whose Knowledge?, a global feminist NGO focused on elevating marginalized voices. She brings her experience with messy departures and endings to the work of improving organizational closure and project conclusions.
Camille is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley (Political Science/ Ethnic Studies) and Columbia University’s Internship In Building Community program. You can see Camille’s extended experience on LinkedIn.
