Team LOVELAND is...

After dropping out of high school and earning a BFA in New Jersey, Jerry Paffendorf moved to Portland to make art, and then followed his emerging interest in emerging technology to the University of Houston-Clear Lake where he earned a Masters of Science in Studies of the Future. From there he got busy as a futurist and internet creative, first working with the nonprofit Acceleration Studies Foundation in LA, and then joining a startup based in DC called the Electric Sheep Company where he began making and studying new experiences in 3D virtual worlds. Next he co-founded Wello Horld in Brooklyn where he helped invent the coolest realtime social internet software you've never heard of. That venture capital-fueled adventure ended, appropriately, in San Francisco. Always building on past experience, lifelong passions, and a sense of where the web is going, in early 2009 Jerry moved to Detroit because his "spider senses were tingling" with the opportunity to help weave a collective internet experience into the fabric and regrowth of a great American city.

Mary Lorene Carter is an artist and social entrepreneur living and working in Detroit. With a background in fine-arts, art history, and library science she has studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Wayne State University, and University of Michigan. Her current projects LOVELAND and the Imagination Station (facethestation.com) focus on social ownership, alternative fun(d)raising, creating mixed-reality experiences, and community engagement. Mary Lorene loves her family, her city, and puppies. If you want to know anything else, well, just ask.

Larry Sheradon is the developer, designer and web craftsperson behind LOVELAND's online presences. A Chicago native, he now lives in Portland, OR. Before embarking on the LOVELAND micro-real-estate adventure and beyond, he worked with data visualization, 3D game engines, GIS & urban data, virtual worlds, smartphone apps, and in the social/casual game sphere. He's a strong believer in the potential of online data viz, community and crowdfunding to seed real progress in cities.