Atlanta showed up on the opposite coast this summer.
Our new chapter president, Dwight Turner, recently visited the Anti Checkbox Pop-Up Museum in San Diego, a GRC Engineering Club event built around a simple idea: compliance should be more than checking boxes.
If you have not met Dwight yet, meet the Prez and learn more about the practitioner helping lead the Atlanta chapter.
What is the Anti Checkbox Museum?
The Anti Checkbox Museum turns familiar GRC frustrations into an interactive experience.
Instead of another presentation about why traditional compliance can fall short, the museum gives practitioners a physical space to explore those ideas through exhibits, conversation, and shared experiences.
The broader message is straightforward: controls, evidence, policies, and frameworks matter, but they matter most when they translate into meaningful action.
The San Diego museum took place on August 18 at Sparks Gallery during the same week as the ISACA GRC Conference. That brought together an especially interesting mix of people working across the profession.
Analysts, auditors, CISOs, security leaders, engineers, and other GRC practitioners were among the people in San Diego that week, with many conference attendees also making their way to the museum.
A bigger club, built through community
GRC Engineering Club president Abdie Mohamed and club founder AJ Yawn were both in attendance to greet club members, connect with practitioners, and talk about where the GRC Engineering community is headed.
The GRC Engineering Club has now grown to more than 50 chapters worldwide, connecting practitioners across cities and countries around a different approach to the work.
For Atlanta, that matters.
Our chapter may be focused on what is happening here in the A, but we are part of a much larger practitioner community learning how to build, automate, test, and rethink the way GRC work gets done.
Inside the Anti Checkbox Museum
The event recap below captures the museum through the voices of several GRC Engineering Club members who were there.
Atlanta chapter president Dwight Turner is among the practitioners featured. Listen for Dwight discussing the importance of community and why bringing people together around the work matters.
The museum is a good example of what makes the broader club valuable. Ideas about changing GRC become more meaningful when practitioners can experience them together, challenge them, and build relationships around them.
For Atlanta, the trip was also a reminder that building a strong chapter is not only about adding events to a calendar.
It is about showing up, meeting the people doing the work, learning from other chapters, and bringing those relationships back home.
San Diego was one stop. Now we keep building in Atlanta.