Betsy Arroyo will be a Project Champion for Big Brothers Big Sisters AIM System during the NetSquared Conference.

Betsy Betsy coordinates programs and consumer and community outreach at Community Technology Alliance, a San Jose based nonprofit that strives to end and prevent homelessness by linking and networking communities through technology. They provide technical tools to homeless service and affordable housing providers so that they can do what they do best help unhoused community members become stabilized without duplication of technology, expertise or expense. Community Technology Alliance chose to be the project champion for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters project because one of Community Technology Alliance's projects is a also a data warehouse -- RHINO warehouses deduplicated demographic information about the unhoused in their eleven county region and one of their projects is part of a national federation Community Voice Mail provides basic telecommunications to unhoused and at risk individuals to connect to opportunities for employment, income and housing. While Betsy is not a geek/techie, she does understand both the difficulties and benefits of running collaborative projects and hopes to share some lessons learned with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. As a long time local political activist and advocate for housing for extremely low income people, she also hopes to exchange information about fostering real change.