2009 NTC Preview: Johanna Bates on Becoming a Career NPTechie

Johanna Bates has been working at Community Partners for a long time now. She started out stuffing envelopes, graduated to accidental techie, and is now the Director of Technology Strategy. It's fitting, then, that she's leading a session at the NTC about becoming a career nonprofit technologist. Last week, I had the chance to talk to her about her session, Career NPTechies: How to graduate from the accidental techie academy and become a tech leader.

(You can also read her article on the topic, published in our January newsletter.)

I first met Johanna in 2002. Or maybe 2003. I can't remember.  What I do remember is how very funny, charming, gracious and fun Johanna was -- and still is! At the 2007 Nonprofit Technology Conference, Johanna and I were both missing our kids, and bonded over the fact that seeing "Goodnight Moon" in the hotel gift shop made us kind of weepy.  

She's a fantastic part of the NTEN community, and we're lucky to have her!