Finding Purpose in Doing Good
After exactly a year in existence, DoinGud counts in its community close to 2,000 volunteers from over 80 countries, who have collectively clocked tens of thousands of hours in contributions.
At DoinGud we pride ourselves on being a diverse community, with members coming from all walks of life and all corners of the world. A Zoom meeting at DoinGud often starts with small talk in Spanish, French or Chinese before switching to English for the “serious” stuff.
Women make out half of the community, bringing their professional expertise and innate positivity into everything they do. As it happens, positivity, along with communication, collaboration and do-ocracy are DoinGud’s four values around which everyone in the community rallies.
Introducing one of DoinGud’s Super Women
To close Women’s History Month, let me introduce Camila Arias, affectionately called Cami among ourselves. Cami lives “at the end of the world” in the Argentinian Patagonia, spending her spare time reading, building up skills or obsessing about her productivity. For real fun, she will play Dungeons and Dragons, watch something on Netflix or solve a sudoku/chess puzzle. Most of her time however is spent feverishly researching for or contributing to DoinGud in the areas of HR, Marketing, Product, Design and even a bit of Engineering, since June 2020.
Cami is possibly the woman at DoinGud who best embodies all four of our values — inside and outside of the community. She joined our organization with the firm intention of “doing good” at a time when the world was in turmoil due to the pandemic. As a designer she needed to find a greater purpose to serve and found it with DoinGud.
“Endless opportunities for growth and sharing work with awesome community and friends are some of the things that keep me going. It’s crazy to think about everything I’ve learned and experienced, and how much I’ve grown in just 9 months!”
Outside of DoinGud, Cami volunteers as a designer with Hack for LA, a purpose-driven community that she hopes will be part of the selection of social impact organizations that artists showcased on our NFT marketplace will be able to donate to. But her real passions are education, and sustainable communities.
“I believe that through quality, purposeful and human-centered education, people would be better prepared and empowered to really make the world a better place, and I don’t mean just scientific knowledge, but also the understanding and practice of how to be a good member of your community, how to take care of yourself, others, and the environment around you.”
As for her favorite artist? She admires Lin-Manuel Miranda “not only for the creation of masterpieces like Hamilton, but also because he seems to be a super kind person.”
“Super kind” also fits Cami like a second skin. Along with “super creative”, “super helpful”, “super inclusive” and “super woman”.
“As any person with an even minimal amount of common sense, I believe women should be empowered to work in the same disciplines as men are, and gender shouldn’t matter when it comes to how much someone earns or whether they can have leadership roles, which are usually male-dominated.”
Article written by Brigitte Fontaine
