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Barbara (Bobbi) Muscara is the founder of Ledger Academy and Chair of the Hyperledger Learning Materials and Development Working Group. Ledger Academy is a Blockchain Education Company that supplies custom Learning Materials to clients interested in Blockchain Education programs, a recent client includes works include the Linux Foundation LFS170x, Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications. Ledger Academy sponsors 3 three Blockchain Meetup Groups with a combined membership of over 1800, including the Hyperledger Princeton Meetup group. Ledger Academy also sponsors startups in the blockchain space. A few of the most noteworthy include BCEMPLOY, The Giving Chain, Ledger Consulting, and GoNFTYou.
A current active participant in the Hyperledger community since 2018, Bobbi is currently on the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee. She is starting her third year as Chair of the Learning Materials Working Group and is an active contributor to the Public Sector, Social Impact, Climate Action Special Interest Groups. Bobbi has been a presenter at the Hyperledger Global Forum in both 2020 and in 2021. The work Bobbi has done for the Social Impact Special Interest Group led her to develop a Blockchain for Social Impact curriculum that directs the learner in the process of building a blockchain project to benefit local communities. The Giving Chain project is the result of this effort````````````````````````effort.
The Giving Chain project is a Linux Foundation 2021 Sponsored Mentorship Program, a blockchain initiative to create an accessible, decentralized charity giving blockchain platform and the (D2R) donor to recipient web-based application. In 2019 The Giving Chain successfully collected and distributed 100 plus "Giving Bags" of food to local food insecure individuals and area food banks, the project won recognition from The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) 2020 award program. The Giving Chain is a sponsored Linux Foundation Mentorship project for 2021 and Bobbi is its Mentor. The Giving Chain's current projects are Project Princeton, Project Uttarakhand, and Project India Women. The first two will gather excess farm produce in India and NJ and redistribute it to Foodbanks and Flood victims of India. Project Women India is creating distribution channels for hygiene products to be delivered to Rural parts of India.
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