<strong>Nick Farr</strong> is a Financial Accountant based in Washington, DC. Over the past two years, he has worked for the US Treasury Department and the global consultancy McKinsey &amp; Co. Currently, he's helping NGOs and local businesses apply open source and collaborative methods to their work in the hopes of building a more distributed, sustainable economy. He co-founded his local hackerspace, HacDC and plays an active role in the global hackerspace movement. He holds a degree in Social Science from the University of Michigan and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Grand Valley State University.