I'm an internationally recognized tech ethicist, activist, and software engineer with a career built on promoting diversity, equity, and justice in the technology industry.

I wrote We Just Build Hammers, a book that tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the responsible tech movement and the science fiction that inspired them.

In 2014 I created Contributor Covenant, the first and most widely-adopted code of conduct for online communities. I was recognized for my contributions to open source with a Ruby Hero Award in 2016. In 2018 I addressed the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights on the topic of human rights abuses by tech companies. In 2019, I authored the Hippocratic License, an innovative open software license that promotes international human rights standards.

I co-founded the Organization for Ethical Source, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting pro-social outcomes in open source. I serve as Chair of the Governance Futures Network, an initiative exploring the future of democracy in a fully digital age. I'm a founding godmother in (m)otherboard, a collective of people and projects bending the arc of technology from individualistic convenience to collective good. I'm also an alumna of the Omidyar Network’s The Tech We Want program, which convened a community of technology luminaries to collaborate on responsible innovation initiatives.

I sometimes live-stream music recording and production. My experiential music and video projects live at nosignal.zone. My creative work is usually released under a Creative Commons open culture license, free for remixing and reuse.

My CV is available here. You can connect with me on Github, Mastodon, LinkedIn, or by using this contact form.

Let's make some good trouble together.