About Scott Johnson / State Organizer Indiana 50501

Scott is the leader of 50501 in Indiana. Taking over from Christian Hess, Scott has been an integral part of making 50501 Indiana successful. Scott is a former software engineer turned full time activist. Scott has a history of doing socially responsible things at the right time:

  • When the Ukraine war started, Scott and his long time colleague Mark Bernstein stood up Pizza for Ukraine which initially let anyone in the world send a pizza to bomb shelters in Kiev. This has evolved to taking donations which sponsor a soup kitchen. This micro charity sends 100% of the money collected to Ukraine save the PayPal fees and has been continuously operating since 2022.
  • During the pandemic, Scott build CovidNearMe which was the first covid tracker that sliced and diced the data right down to your county.
  • Scott led engineering efforts for the first cut of the ADL's Online Hate Index which analyzed the right wing "Hate-O-Sphere"

Among the companies Scott has either founded or worked for are NTERGAID, Dataware, Feedster, AppData, the ADL and others.

From a technical perspective, Scott works with Ruby, Rails, Python and other technologies to build large Internet applications.

At this point, Scott has come out of retirement and is a full time activist leading Indiana 50501.

Scott is the author of:

In a example of Scott's book nerdiness, his book collection was featured on Oxide Computer's podcast with Bryan Cantrill. Books matter. Books are how we understand the world.