TRESTLE TEAM & VALUES
We are small team of public-interest technologists — engineers, designers, product managers — who come to this work eager to solve problems at the intersection of tech and social change.
OUR PEOPLE
Xena Ni
[she/her]
Partner for Design
& Movement Tech
Sunil Sadasivan
[he/him]
Partner for Engineering
& Security
Mollie Ruskin
[she/her]
Partner for Product
& Organizing
Stephanie Bennaugh
[she/her]
Chief of Staff
Tania Lee
[she/her]
Senior Product Management Lead,
Trestle Labs
Nikunj Shah
[he/him]
Senior Engineering Lead,
Trestle Labs
Penélope Cuevas
[she/her]
Director of Security & Engineering
Zareena Meyn
[she/her]
Development Director
Esha Rakhit
[she/her]
Product Manager
& Tech Mentorship Program Co-Lead
Trestle is made up of a small core team that collaborates with a rich and diverse community of 140+ technology advisors and consultants from private sector, political and progressive organizing and public-interest start ups.
Under our collective belts are leadership roles at a 2020 presidential campaign, a Presidential Innovation Fellowship, the U.S. Digital Service, Code for America, Planned Parenthood, the Washington Post, International Rescue Committee, Vanguard, NYU, Nava, mRelief, Propel, Buffer, and the Uptime2020 initiative.
At the cross-section of each of these is the common endeavor of bringing thoughtful, systems-responsive and people-centered 21st century technology practices to critical issues of the day. We are a women and BIPOC-led team deeply committed to building an inclusive pipeline of collaborators.
Outside of working hours, we are artists, garden & pet lovers, mutual aid organizers, parents, care givers, sci-fi nerds and Beyonce stans, of course.
OUR VALUES
We are a scrappy young organization, and as we build, we’re looking to these values to shape how we grow:
Equity, justice and liberation are paramount — to who we are, how we work and what we work for;
Approach challenges with a humble, curious and collaboration mindset;
Seek to add value without seeking credit;
Surface the truth, through thoughtful & empathetic ways;
Do no harm — seek to understand implications and impacts and tread with care;
Don’t take ourselves too seriously — enjoy the work, the people and the mishaps along the way.