Meet the HTBS Founding Advisory Board
How To Be Social is the community that connects your life, love, and career. Building a community that lasts takes more than great events. It takes the right people guiding it. This August, we welcomed six leaders as our Founding Advisory Board. Each one brings deep experience in a part of what HTBS needs to grow: money, leadership, brand, technology, community, and partnerships. Together, they're helping us build what comes next, from our 2027 events in Dallas, Austin, Los A
$523 Raised. What do we do with the money?
By Hannah Jewel Clark | How To Be Social We started this fundraiser because artists deserve more than survival. That's not a slogan. That's a decade of watching talented, committed, brilliant people run out of resources before they run out of ideas. It's watching someone pour everything into their craft and then have to choose between making art and making rent. It's knowing that the gap between a starving artist and a thriving one is often not talent — it's access. So we bui
We Were Never Just Events
By Hannah Jewel Clark This all started with a blog. Not a dot com — a dot blog. That's Why We Are. I was living with roommates. Someone looked at me one day and said, "You're being too hard on yourself." I took that feeling — that shame spiral, that loneliness, that quiet ache of not knowing how to just be — and I turned it into something. I started writing. I started talking. I started creating spaces where other people could bring those same feelings and not have to carry t