ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
OF DPW
Chris "ChAos" Neary has been attending Burning Man since 1999. He first got involved with the Organization in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, when he spent extensive time in Biloxi and Pearlington during the inception of what became Burners Without Borders. ChAos served as DPW’s Heavy Equipment dispatcher on the playa from 2007 through 2010 before joining the DPW Council as DPW Heavy Equipment & Transportation Manager, overseeing all machinery and trucking operations in the Black Rock City. In 2016 he stepped up to lead the DPW Council and oversee the entirety of DPW operations on the playa.
GET RECRUITED : Looking to find a spot on a DPW crew? See Starred* Crews for contact info!
Shayna started attending Burning Man in 2011. After volunteering with Café Decor and Café Clean Up, she was quickly swept up by the DPW to join Playa Restoration, following the event in 2013. Shayna has worked on many crews with the DPW— from Oculus (Café Construction), Heavy Equipment and Transpo (HEaT), and Playa Restoration. She has now taken a year-round role as the DPW Administrative Coordinator, mainly assisting Chaos, The Associate Director of DPW, as well as the Council of Darkness and the DPW at large.
Shayna comes to Burning Man Project from event-based roles around the country. Shayna loves Weird Al, and you will frequently find her riding around on playa singing various tunes at the top of her lungs. Shayna holds a Bachelor's degree in Music from Berklee College of Music with a focus in Contemporary Writing and Production.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT and TRANSPORTATION *
Dropping loads, punching holes, cutting trenches in the playa. Crane lifts, boom assists, forking anything that moves. Big art, we help build it, rig it and watch it burn.
If you sleep in it, work in it, build it, chances are HEaT had something to do with it Dust storms? We shit em! 24/7 we bring HEaT to the Playa Making it safe and keeping the dream alive Drinks at the roll up but never before five
Think you have what it takes stop by and say Hello. Don’t have the skills? But have the work ethic, We can help. Sense of humor required
