About Trust Up

Mission, Vision, Origins, Team, Board & More
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Our Mission

To help the seamless exchange of our abundant resources so that many more people can live in a safe, sustainable, abundant, and equitable world.

Our Vision

We envision a world where people depend less on money, and resources flow freely within communities due to a redistribution of the abundance of tools, knowledge, materials, and support currently present yet untapped.

Trust Up aspires to create a future where trust drives local economies and collaboration replaces competition as the foundation of human life.

Origin Story
Trust Up originates from a self-organizing group called "Kingston Resilience" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its Currency and Exchange committee believed a system-shift would be needed for the Kingston, NY community to be supported of in this time of crisis. Rob Jameson was hired to lead an exploration into what solutions could work to help all in Kingston have greater resource access through uniting various existing efforts in the community and by local organizations.
The project was piloted under O+ Festival for 1 year, focused around listening to the community. This helped identify a central problem: Many resources exist, but are often not found/accessed by community members. The next year (2022), Trust Up was formed as Low Profit Limited Liability Company (L3C) and began resource circulating pilots with local communities and organizations to help give the local Kingston community greater resource access.

Meet Our Team

People building Trust Up
Rob Jameson
Executive Director
Dhaval Mesavaniya
Lead Developer
Debbie Ramos
Implementation Manager
Kai Winger
Game Manager
Chris Schapdick
Experience Manager
Harshad Italiya
Electronic Engineer
Vimal Sutariya
Light + Circuit Engineer
Bikram Kumar Singh
Game Developer
Venk Krishnamurthy
Game Designer
Prem Kanasani
Mechanical Engineer
Jennifer Bichara
Content Expert
Karen Ruiz
Data Visualization Designer

Meet Our Board

People building Trust Up
Dr. Michael Marks
Board Member
Roo Shamim
Board Member
Randall Jacobs
Board Member

Behind the scenes

Go beyond the platform to discover the passionate team, creative minds, and innovative processes that make Trust Up possible.
Trust Up tools, especially hardware goes through lots of tests. One of the most fun is the first install day, where a prototype is put someplace public, ideally with no instructions for people that will encounter it.
Always learning...
The Commons inspires us... where things are owned and supported collectively with no profit motive. They are here for everyones benefit.

Here's a photo of a "moon trail box" which is a commons for menstrual product and knowledge exchange, supported freely.
...Fostering a Collaborative Culture
Trust Up office is an open multi-use space that features a variety of re-configurable hacking, meeting, building, experimenting furniture.

Here, we solder custom electronics to smart lights.
...the Sciend + art....
Trust Up has been testing out matches for events using real time data from our kiosks.

Here's a photo from a recent job matching event with Ulster County Office of Employment and Training where 6 kiosks and 4 smart tvs created a custom matching tool for participants.
....matching in real time

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