Josette Melchor is the Executive Director and Founder of Gray Area Foundation For The Arts (GAFFTA), a San Francisco non-profit that applies digital art and technology for positive social impact. As a community organizer, she led the launch of Seaquence.org, a product of Gray Area Research, an artist-in-research program for creative technologies. She also ran City Centered, a program that connected cities with data artists for public good. As a curator, she has worked with notable designers and interdisciplinary research centers including: MiT Senseable City Lab, Institute of Computer Sound and Technology, Stamen Design; artists C.E.B Reas, Robert Hodgin, Aaron Koblin, Camille Utterback, and many more.