Berry House

We’re a small, values‑driven studio building fast, accessible websites and community‑centered content. We help independent creators and mission‑led orgs publish with clarity and care.

Why we started this initiative

We’re carving out a humane corner of the internet—one that values autonomy, creativity, and long‑term stewardship over growth at all costs. Our work combines lean, privacy‑respecting tech (Eleventy/JAMstack) with editorial craft and community engagement. We ship small, sustainable projects that people can actually own.

🧑‍💻 Brennan Kenneth Brown

Founder • Lead Developer • Lead Writer

Queer Métis JAMstack dev and content strategist. Builds small, fast, accessible sites and clear content systems. BA English (Honours), MRU 2025; growth marketing (OnRamp) and full‑stack (EvolveU). Community builder behind Write Club, championing voice, access, and long‑term stewardship.

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Brennan leads development and writing at Berry House. He blends editorial craft with lean engineering—favoring Eleventy, progressive enhancement, and accessibility‑first interfaces. He’s shipped sustainable sites for indie creators and nonprofits, and maintains calm workflows that teams can actually own.

His journey threads through open‑source development, growth marketing, and English studies. At MRU (BA English, Honours), he focused on rhetoric and narrative craft; at EvolveU, he formalized full‑stack fundamentals and test‑driven habits; at OnRamp, he learned to align content with measurable outcomes.

Beyond code, Brennan organizes community through Write Club: facilitating workshops, publishing member work, and stewarding inclusive spaces for emerging voices. He’s motivated by autonomy, care, and long‑term stewardship of the web.

2018–2020: Began publishing on the indie web; learned semantic HTML/CSS and accessibility patterns.
2020–2022: Growth marketing at OnRamp; shipped analytics and content experiments tied to outcomes.
2022–2023: Full‑stack training at EvolveU; TDD, Node, API design, and progressive enhancement.
2023–present: English (Honours) at MRU; research, rhetoric, and editorial craft informing web writing.
Ongoing: Founder of Write Club; community building, workshops, publishing, and accessibility advocacy.

🤝 Yvonne Berger

Co‑founder • Director of Community Engagement

Yvonne steers community engagement and research at Strawberry Collective. Their work bridges stakeholders and builds inclusive programs grounded in EDIJR (equity, diversity, inclusion, justice, and reconciliation). They’ve coordinated research, partnerships, and events across Calgary’s civic and nonprofit landscape for the last 4 years.

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Yvonne is deeply analytical, compassionate, and values-driven. She identifies as a “bridge-builder,” naturally seeing relationships between ideas, people, and systems across disciplines and contexts. Their practice centers accessibility, dignity, and collaborative problem‑solving, designing processes that make it easier for people to participate and tell their story.

During their degree, they discovered social innovation, aligning with her values of intersectionality and increasing the desire to share knowledge and unite stakeholders in addressing complex issues. They went on to revive the Student Changemaker Network, exploring youth-led collaborative actions addressing cross-sector social, economic, and environmental issues.

2018–2023: BA Psychology (Honours) and Social Innovation minor; led community-inspired research projects, applying systems thinking.
2021–2022: Catamount Fellowship & Student Changemaker Network; founded club encouraging institution reform based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
2023-2024: Youthful Cities; supported research & youth summits on civic issues across Canada.
2024: Nonprofit Chamber; built virtual community platform using circle.so.
2025: Calgary Food Bank; conducted interviews, systems insights, and wrote reports.
Ongoing: Global Shapers Calgary; building community partnerships for social change and civic action.

How we work

🧭 Small, sustainable scopes

Right‑size problems, set performance and a11y budgets, and ship iteratively with documented decisions and clear tradeoffs.

🔓 Autonomy by design

Lightweight stacks (Eleventy, Netlify, vanilla JS), portable content, simple pipelines, and plain‑language docs—no lock‑in.

♿ Accessibility and integrity

Semantic HTML, color contrast, keyboard flows, privacy‑respecting analytics, and honest metrics that reflect real outcomes.

✍️ Editorial craft

Information architecture, voice and tone, content ops, and maintainable docs that outlive the project.

🤝 Community

Research‑informed engagement, inclusive facilitation, and stewardship plans for healthy, ongoing participation.

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Testimonials

9 total ▾

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I met Brennan at Mount Royal University, and worked alongside him as an executive of The Write Club. Throughout the time that I've known him, Brennan has proven himself to be a driven, caring, highly competent individual. He has consistently demonstrated creativity, problem solving skills, and an aptitude for expansion and growth. Brennan has also fostered an amazing environment for myself and our university peers, constantly striving to help his friends to the best of his ability. I believe Brennan would be an incredible asset to any potential employer.

— Benjamin Urquhart · 2024-03-05
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Brennan possesses strong leadership skills, that has helped him cultivate a strong and close-knit writing community. He cares deeply for all individuals who comes to Write Club, trying to make an inclusive space, supporting those from all walks of life by helping them develop their writing skills. Brennan is not only caring and considerate, but he is also resourceful, continuously finding ways to network with others involved in the writing community and consistently coming up with new ideas to help foster a bigger community. I am deeply thankful to be a part of such a vibrant community, created by the founder, Brennan.

— Connie Yu, Owner of the Calgary Vegan Society · 2024-03-03
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Brennan has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills within our community. I have had the privilege of working alongside Brennan as the marketing executive for Write Club and have come to value his advice and determination. Brennan is extremely motivated and organized, as exemplified by his consistent efforts to improve communication and participation within Write Club. Brennan excels in his position, helping people realize their potential through encouragement and constructive criticism. He would be an asset to any organization that chose to employ him.

— Campton Hancock · 2024-02-28
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Brennan is an absolute joy to work with. He’s extremely knowledgeable and able to apply his expertise with data to any project. Not only does his technical expertise shine through, but he also brings creative ideas to his projects. Glad that I was able to share a cohort!

— Candice Tate, 2021 VA of the Year · 2022-09-04
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Brennan was a fun and instructive member of the InceptionU cohort, I feel lucky to have worked with him and gained from his skills as a full stack developer. I can without hesitation recommend him for any full stack, front end or back end role. Any software company would be fortunate to have him join their team.

— Andrew Bizon, P. Eng. · 2020-09-21
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Brennan acquired a wealth of new knowledge and skills through the program at InceptionU and successfully presented his front end learning project that included JavaScript, React.js and some backend integrations. I wish Brennan all the best in his technology journey, and I am confident in his success!

— Roman Mirakhmedov, Principle Solutions Architect at AWS · 2020-08-06
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

As the Tech Lead for the InceptionU Full Stack Development Program for the 4th Cohort, I would like to congratulate Brennan on completing the Front-End curriculum at InceptionU. This included JavaScript (Syntax, Logic, Events, DOM, Data Structures, Arrays, Objects/Dictionaries, Linked Lists, State Management, etc.). I wish him the best in the technical community.

— Larry Shumlich · 2020-08-06
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I had the pleasure of teaching Brennan in the OnRamp Growth Marketing Bootcamp this year. Brennan is a creative, curious and resourceful problem-solver. During OnRamp, he demonstrated strengths in content development & copywriting (blog, sales sheet), campaign design and marketing fundamentals. He always asked really great, thoughtful questions, contributed new ideas and supported his fellow cohort participants when they needed help. Plus his technical coding aptitude gave him a leg-up when tackling the more technical side of marketing tools. He was a pleasure to work with!

— Chantel Elliott · 2022-12-01
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Strong, community orientated leader who I have had the pleasure of working with. Acting as the Founding President of Mount Royal University’s Creative Writing Club, Kenneth has fostered a strong community where individuals invested in professional and emotional relationships. His ability as a leader has enabled others to grow, and his conscientiousness is an asset in making hard decisions. In terms of specific skills, being an English Honours student alongside Kenneth affirms that he is skillful in editing, proofreading, critical analysis, and he has a keen attention to detail that makes him reliable in any project format. Kenneth’s knack for managing websites also proves that he has skills outside of his degree and he is a proficient article writer on Medium, striking cold facts and personal truth that adds to the depth of his writing ability. Thoughtful, sharp, and adaptable.

— Felix Da Costa Gomez · 2025-04-29

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