Transformus Board of Directors: 2022/2023 season

Bryan – TLC Representative

hi, I’m Bryan!

Lisa – Vice President, IPA Representative

I started burning in 2012 when I helped form a theme camp with a bunch of other virgins (mostly). Starting in 2015 I lead City Planning for Ignite until joining the IPA in 2018. I’ve also dabbled in leading or co-leading Art Team for Transformus. I enjoy the dichotomy between cacophony/structure, landscapes/wastelands, and strong coffee/water. Creative INTJ into cooking, art, music, podcasts, dancing poorly, and travel. I value open-mindedness and experience over possessions.  

Jellyfish –  Board Member

I had my first burn experience in 2010 at Transformus. I’m interested in experiments with distributed leadership, volunteer communities, and temporary autonomous zones. Sometimes I moderate some of our online spaces.

Mufasa – Secretary, IPA Representative

My burn career began with designing a logo for and helping to build/bring a first time theme camp to Transformus in 2012. The Fire Triangle theme camp was awesome, and I saw a crazy conglomeration of people in the woods, coming together and creating, just for the sake of creating. I knew I was home. The next year, I was co-lead for a new team called Inventory. After a few years of helping with that for Transformus and Ignite, I moved to the Signage team for both burns. After taking a step back from burn leadership for a year to create fire art, the Ignite! Planning Association called in 2018 and invited me to join. I couldn’t have imagined a better way to spend my Tuesday nights for the next three years than continuing to help create a platform for so much magic to happen. In 2022, I joined the Board of Directors for the Transformus organization. Since 2012, I’ve attended Transformus, Ignite, Alchemy, Frost Burn, Love Burn, and Burningman. I love creating, especially when it involves fire, and I love helping other people realize their creations.

Snacks – TLC Representative

hihi!  Snacks here! burns show some aspects of the world as I want it to be. we work  together to make meaningful experiences with a supportive and exciting community. when I attended my first burn, Tfus 2015, people greeted me with “welcome home.” at first I thought that was a bit affected, silly even if pleasant.  and I quickly realized the importance of the space I was entering. I saw people freely playing with new ways of being, creating and witnessing beauty, experiencing novelty, and supporting each other in experiencing joy.  now I’m here to help make that space for our connection, expression, silliness, hedonism, healing, learning, and relief. I’m just glad to be here ♥️

Tanya Everywhere – Treasurer

I enjoy long romantic walks on the beach during sunset, Britney Spears (hold the ballads please), sweating it out to nasty drum and bass at 3am, all things otters, and giving people my opinion regardless of if they asked for it. 

Treat – President

I was born quite a while ago, and for the first forty-five or so years I was a stranger in a strange land until I heard about this wild, wild thing in the desert and found a community there that welcomed me home in 2006.  Nothing has been even remotely the same since.  It changed my life dramatically and maybe it’s changed yours – or is about to.  I had to pay it forward and that’s why I spend my hours now helping to build, nourish, and protect this community that gave me so much so selflessly.  There’s more like me and thee that need a home – let’s work together to give them a place to discover and grow in.  And maybe, if we’re lucky, change the world a little bit at a time.