“It sent a wave of horror and terror through the organization as the original author started moving the document [Burning Man 2030 Envioronmental Sustainability Roadmap] around. He’s very communitarian, he’s also the same person that has been running Fly Ranch. He is a visionary in his own right in believing that in order for these ideas to be adopted, there has to be a period of taking in input so that people feel a party to it, and committed to it.”
— Marian Goodell, The Klosters Forum Podcast, “Burning Man's Sustainability Road Map with it's CEO Marian Goodell” (2023).
“The Burning Man festival involves people coming together to form a temporary art community that leaves no trace on the desert. Fly Ranch, which is located north of the annual festival site, will be a year-round extension of this movement where designers can test sustainable projects…’We hope that the majority of the proposals will be built at Fly Ranch or elsewhere in the future,” said Fly Ranch director Matt Sundquist.’”
— India Block “Top ten designs for Burning Man's off-grid desert outpost Fly Ranch revealed”, Dezeen (2021).
“…Matt Sundquist, director of Fly Ranch – a year-round “rural incubator for Burning Man culture” – wrote in a blog entitled Climate Change is an Existential Threat to Black Rock City that “we will soon see multiple days in Black Rock City with extreme dust, substantial storms, 120°F+, and 200+ AQI (Air Quality Index).”
— Lara Williams “Burning Man 2023 Is a Climate-Crisis Parable”, Bloomberg (2023).
“It quickly became clear to me that he knew way more about the Supreme Court than I did, and I’ve been teaching here for 27 years…This will be his seventh published piece, which would already put him pretty much in the spectrum of getting tenure at Harvard Law School.”
— Harvard Law School Professor David Wilkins, “Repeat Players: Do Solicitor General Office Alumni Dominate the Supreme Court Bar,” HLS Program on the Legal Profession Forum (2012).
“Matt and his team make our Mavericks list for creating an incredible platform where users share their content and learn from the content of others. Not to mention they’ve made major strides in lowering the barrier to entry for complex data visualization.”
— 40 Data Mavericks Under 40, “The definitive list of the most interesting and innovative people in data” (2015).
“Matt is the best conversationalist I know and can engage anyone. He can talk about almost any subject you bring up, or can, at the very least, ask insightful questions about whatever you're interested in. He's insanely brilliant and kind, but also uncannily socially aware, a combination that adds up to a hell of a human being.”
— Natalie So, knick-knacks, “#18: Small Talk” (2015).
Harvard Student Body VP & President (2005 - ‘09).
“Sundquist’s speech is uniquely disarming: a mélange of strikingly understated, philosophy-tinged awareness, with a streak of beach-style casual that puts the listener at ease.”
— Christian B. Flow, Harvard Crimson, “Undergraduate Council V.P. More Than Just A Campus VIP” (2007).
“Sundquist, an aspiring teacher who needs no further padding for his résumé, is running because of his energy, enthusiasm, and belief that the UC can make a difference. His passion and drive are matched by his charisma and verve. Quite simply, nobody on campus knows more people than Matt Sundquist, and nearly everybody knows him.”
— Harvard Crimson Editorial Board “Vote Sundquist-Sarafa.” Image (2007).
“Yes, ladies and gentlemen, even the Holy Grail of Harvard celebrity, that affable Everyman, that delightfully eye-catching Richard Nixon-Barack Obama hybrid, Matt Sundquist ’09, ex-vice president of the UC, appears to inhabit the cavernous Computer Science lairs buried deep within the bowels of the Science Center. The following photos exclusively leaked to GossipGeek…”
— Gossip Geek, “Matt Sundquist '09 Uses Computer” (
Harrisonburg High School (2001 - ‘05).
"Matthew Sundquist, youth governor for Virginia Model General Assembly, met Gov. Mark Warner in Richmond. He was introduced on the floor of the House by Del. Glenn Weatherholtz and received a standing ovation from the legislators. He was able to meet with several delegates and senators."
— Governor Warner & Matthew Sundquist, Daily News Record (2005).
"Harrisonburg High School Principal Irene Reynolds said Matthew 'has demonstrated the ability to focus his time and energies on his academics in ways that have brought him honors and distinction in the longest list of activities and involvement I have ever seen.'"
— Leadership Winner Named, Daily News Record (2005).
"Sundquist - the Sundance Kid - is slight of build and has his hair flopping to either side..."Mathew is more a glider. You look at him, and it doesn't seem like he's running hard, but he's going fast," Sobanko said."
— Streaks A Spitting Image, Daily News Record (2003).