{"id":63,"date":"2014-08-29T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:09:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m a non-profit leader and community builder based in Toronto with a background that spans adult education, digital literacy, and social enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal wp-block-paragraph\">I love the arts and have spent years working on creative projects (sometimes successfully). I&#8217;m also more of an indoor person who is slowly being convinced otherwise, mostly through good company and the occasional hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal wp-block-paragraph\">Professionally, I&#8217;m the Executive Director of Free Geek Toronto, a social enterprise that advances digital inclusion and circular economy principles through technology reuse. Since taking on the role in 2017, I&#8217;ve helped the organization grow significantly, increasing revenue, building a more sustainable funding model, and developing a strong team of staff and volunteers who are doing genuinely meaningful work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to bring that work to broader audiences: as a witness before Canada&#8217;s <em>Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector<\/em>, at the 2021 World Circular Economy Forum, and at various other conferences on digital inclusion and community technology. I also serve on the boards of the Revue Film Society and TorontoRPG, and run digital skills workshops through the Toronto District School Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal wp-block-paragraph\">Before Free Geek Toronto, I worked in adult education and digital storytelling, helping people use technology to tell their own stories and access resources in their communities. That thread, technology as a tool for empowerment, not just efficiency, still runs through everything I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a non-profit leader and community builder based in Toronto with a background that spans adult education, digital literacy, and social enterprises. I love the arts and have spent years working on creative projects (sometimes successfully). I&#8217;m also more of an indoor person who is slowly being convinced otherwise, mostly through good company and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}