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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T21:53:18Z

Bonfieldb: Updated Kortney Ryan Ziegler nomination

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship, she is a vocal advocate for gender and cultural diversity in the tech industry.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Wilco is one of the last remaining African-American owned cable operators in the Nation and specialized in providing technology access to under-served communities.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College in1999 with degrees in History, Women's Studies, and Business Management and received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2002 and was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in 2004.

She currently serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's new Young Friends Executive Committee and also serves as a Board Director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) and is on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia People's Emergency Center (PEC).She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). Ford's 30,000-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. Paul was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==

Sorelle Friedler is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ2FB574JY she delivered a talk on mass surveillance in China] and how it was converted into political repression.

(However--she *has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
He is the CTO and founding partner of Zepheira, and has been a leader in the implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." He was also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference! More information is available at his [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ website.]

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries in September of 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

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As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second, Brock Whitten is the co-creator of [https://surge.sh/tour Surge] ([https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc Read about it on Medium)], Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap, as well as a Mozilla-WebFWD Alumnus and an advocate of a free and open web. He's also a friend of the community who has spoken at several conferences, including GOTO Chicago, Copenhagen, and Aarhus; RubyConf Argentina; CascadiaJS Seattle; NodeBrigade; VanJS; JSConf Washinton D.C.; Erlang Meetup Vancouver; OSCON San Jose; Future Ruby Toronto; and MerbCamp San Diego. Read more at his [http://sintaxi.com/ website].

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
The founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs--Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is also the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University, the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], and runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic]. In 2013, Dr. Ziegler was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100, and in 2014 he gave the closing keynote at the LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T21:45:46Z

Bonfieldb: Updated Brock Whitten nomination

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship, she is a vocal advocate for gender and cultural diversity in the tech industry.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Wilco is one of the last remaining African-American owned cable operators in the Nation and specialized in providing technology access to under-served communities.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College in1999 with degrees in History, Women's Studies, and Business Management and received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2002 and was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in 2004.

She currently serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's new Young Friends Executive Committee and also serves as a Board Director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) and is on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia People's Emergency Center (PEC).She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). Ford's 30,000-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. Paul was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==

Sorelle Friedler is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ2FB574JY she delivered a talk on mass surveillance in China] and how it was converted into political repression.

(However--she *has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
He is the CTO and founding partner of Zepheira, and has been a leader in the implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." He was also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference! More information is available at his [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ website.]

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries in September of 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

<blockquote>
As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
</blockquote>

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second, Brock Whitten is the co-creator of [https://surge.sh/tour Surge] ([https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc Read about it on Medium)], Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap, as well as a Mozilla-WebFWD Alumnus and an advocate of a free and open web. He's also a friend of the community who has spoken at several conferences, including GOTO Chicago, Copenhagen, and Aarhus; RubyConf Argentina; CascadiaJS Seattle; NodeBrigade; VanJS; JSConf Washinton D.C.; Erlang Meetup Vancouver; OSCON San Jose; Future Ruby Toronto; and MerbCamp San Diego. Read more at his [http://sintaxi.com/ website].

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T21:44:20Z

Bonfieldb: Updated Brock Whitten nomination

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship, she is a vocal advocate for gender and cultural diversity in the tech industry.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Wilco is one of the last remaining African-American owned cable operators in the Nation and specialized in providing technology access to under-served communities.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College in1999 with degrees in History, Women's Studies, and Business Management and received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2002 and was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in 2004.

She currently serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's new Young Friends Executive Committee and also serves as a Board Director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) and is on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia People's Emergency Center (PEC).She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). Ford's 30,000-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. Paul was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==

Sorelle Friedler is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ2FB574JY she delivered a talk on mass surveillance in China] and how it was converted into political repression.

(However--she *has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
He is the CTO and founding partner of Zepheira, and has been a leader in the implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." He was also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference! More information is available at his [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ website.]

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries in September of 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

<blockquote>
As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
</blockquote>

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second, Brock Whitten is the co-creator of [https://surge.sh/tour Surge] ([https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc Read about it on Medium)], Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap, as well as a Mozilla-WebFWD Alumnus and advocate of a free and open web. He's also a friend of the community who has spoken at several conferences, including GOTO Chicago, Copenhagen, and Aarhus; RubyConf Argentina; CascadiaJS Seattle; NodeBrigade; VanJS; JSConf Washinton D.C.; and Erlang Meetup Vancouver. OSCON San Jose, Future Ruby Toronto, MerbCamp San Diego.
Read more at his [http://sintaxi.com/ website].

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T21:37:29Z

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

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[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship, she is a vocal advocate for gender and cultural diversity in the tech industry.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Wilco is one of the last remaining African-American owned cable operators in the Nation and specialized in providing technology access to under-served communities.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College in1999 with degrees in History, Women's Studies, and Business Management and received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2002 and was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in 2004.

She currently serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's new Young Friends Executive Committee and also serves as a Board Director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) and is on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia People's Emergency Center (PEC).She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). Ford's 30,000-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. Paul was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==

Sorelle Friedler is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ2FB574JY she delivered a talk on mass surveillance in China] and how it was converted into political repression.

(However--she *has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
He is the CTO and founding partner of Zepheira, and has been a leader in the implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." He was also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference! More information is available at his [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ website.]

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries in September of 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

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As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-21T21:35:54Z

Bonfieldb: Added link to Kate Krauss nomination

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship, she is a vocal advocate for gender and cultural diversity in the tech industry.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Wilco is one of the last remaining African-American owned cable operators in the Nation and specialized in providing technology access to under-served communities.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College in1999 with degrees in History, Women's Studies, and Business Management and received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2002 and was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in 2004.

She currently serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's new Young Friends Executive Committee and also serves as a Board Director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) and is on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia People's Emergency Center (PEC).She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]". She has worked at HappyCog, the studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman. More information is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter]. Several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd]. Also available is a video of her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's executive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). Ford's 30,000-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. Paul was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==

Sorelle Friedler is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic]. He is a former NASA scientist who utilizes his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies in the creation of open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by providing accessible innovative knowledge management solutions. NuCivic's open data platform DKAN provides a platform for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations to implement data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine. He was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won a “Best of New York” award for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Previous to her position at Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. More information is available at her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ2FB574JY Chaos Communications Congress], where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--she *has* a sense of humor!)

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
He is the CTO and founding partner of Zepheira, and has been a leader in the implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." He was also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference! More information is available at his [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ website.]

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries in September of 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

<blockquote>
As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a well-received talk at 2014 ALA, and could offer interesting tech and social insights at Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-10T17:10:52Z

Bonfieldb: Updated Audrey Watters nomination

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==
Kate Krauss is West Philly based Director of Communications for the [https://blog.torproject.org/blog Tor Project]. She is a passionate advocate for internet privacy and information freedom. She is also the Executive Director of the AIDS Policy project, a long time AIDS activist, and an artist. [http://technical.ly/person/kate-krauss/ Links to a few articles about her work]

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliyah Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter].

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures, and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA, and I bet he would have some great tech and social insights for Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-10T15:27:19Z

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==
Kate Krauss is West Philly based Director of Communications for the [https://blog.torproject.org/blog Tor Project]. She is a passionate advocate for internet privacy and information freedom. She is also the Executive Director of the AIDS Policy project, a long time AIDS activist, and an artist. [http://technical.ly/person/kate-krauss/ Links to a few articles about her work]

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliyah Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter].

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA, and I bet he would have some great tech and social insights for Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-10T15:26:09Z

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==
Kate Krauss is West Philly based Director of Communications for the [https://blog.torproject.org/blog Tor Project]. She is a passionate advocate for internet privacy and information freedom. She is also the Executive Director of the AIDS Policy project, a long time AIDS activist, and an artist. [http://technical.ly/person/kate-krauss/ Links to a few articles about her work]

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliyah Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter].

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder], which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ David Weinberger's his blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA, and I bet he would have some great tech and social insights for Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-10T14:41:09Z

Bonfieldb: Updated formatting in Aliyah Rahman nomination

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==
Kate Krauss is West Philly based Director of Communications for the [https://blog.torproject.org/blog Tor Project]. She is a passionate advocate for internet privacy and information freedom. She is also the Executive Director of the AIDS Policy project, a long time AIDS activist, and an artist. [http://technical.ly/person/kate-krauss/ Links to a few articles about her work]

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliyah Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter].

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of "Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder", which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book "Small Pieces Loosely Joined", a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now", technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this seems to be how to book him]; here's [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ David Weinberger's blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA, and I bet he would have some great tech and social insights for Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-10T14:39:44Z

Bonfieldb: Cleaned up formatting

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==
dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays].

== Mandy Brown ==
Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==
Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== Catherine Farman ==
Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==
Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==
Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Kate Krauss ==
Kate Krauss is West Philly based Director of Communications for the [https://blog.torproject.org/blog Tor Project]. She is a passionate advocate for internet privacy and information freedom. She is also the Executive Director of the AIDS Policy project, a long time AIDS activist, and an artist. [http://technical.ly/person/kate-krauss/ Links to a few articles about her work]

== Alison Macrina ==
Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==
Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliyah Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer.

]http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/]

[https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman]

== Jenica Rogers ==
Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==
[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== Audrey Watters ==
Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.

== Gabriel Weinberg ==
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of "Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder", which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book "Small Pieces Loosely Joined", a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now", technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this seems to be how to book him]; here's [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ David Weinberger's blog].

== Brock Whitten ==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's website]

== Kam Woods ==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA, and I bet he would have some great tech and social insights for Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== Jeffrey Zeldman ==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

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[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-09T21:08:29Z

Bonfieldb: Added Cecily Walker nomination

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

==Mike Bostock==

Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==

Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Brigitte Daniel ==

Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows.
[https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel]

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==

"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==

"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Andrew Hoppin ==

Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Katrina Owen ==

Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliyah Rahman ==

Tech and social justice activist. Engineer.

]http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/]

[https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman]

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

== Cecily Walker ==

Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Brock Whitten==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is Brock's [http://sintaxi.com/ website]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

==Jeffrey Zeldman==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-09T21:00:32Z

Bonfieldb: Added nomination for Brett Anitra Gilbert

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

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==Mike Bostock==

Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Kimberly Bryant ==

Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Brigitte Daniel ==

Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows.
[https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel]

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. He was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Sorelle Friedler ==

"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==

"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Andrew Hoppin ==

Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Katrina Owen ==

Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Aliyah Rahman ==

Tech and social justice activist. Engineer.

]http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/]

[https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman]

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Brock Whitten==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is Brock's [http://sintaxi.com/ website]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

==Jeffrey Zeldman==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Bonfieldb: Updated Paul Ford nomination

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Bonfieldb: Update Paul Ford nomination

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Bonfieldb: Nominated Catherine Farman

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Bonfieldb: Alphabetized nominations

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Bonfieldb: Alphabetized Ed Summers nomination

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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2016 Conference Committees

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= Code4Lib 2016 Committees =

''Many hands make for light work.''

Hosting a conference is incredibly complex, and it cannot be done without the help of the entire community. If you are interested in being an awesome person and applying your skills to a particular part of the Code4Lib 2016 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (please provide a contact). Each committee must have a Primary Contact (chair), Secondary Contact (co-chair), and Documentarian (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. Feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact (LPC) to each committee.

== Location and Dates ==

* Location: TBD, Philadelphia, PA
* Dates: TBD
** Pre-conferences -
** Main meeting -
** Post conference activities?

== Local Planning Committee ==
This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.

* David Lacy (Villanova) - Primary Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson - Secondary Contact (v)
* Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage Foundation) - Documentarian (v)
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* Katherine Lynch (Temple) (v)
* Stephen Ng (Temple)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* Lauren Gala (UPenn)
* David Uspal (Villanova) (v)
* Chris Clement (Drexel)

== Website Working Group ==
This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).

[[Website Working Group Documents|Website Working Group Documents]]

* [[User:Cdmo|Charlie Morris]] (Penn State) - Primary Contact
* [[User:jtidal|Junior Tidal]] (New York City College of Technology) - Secondary Contact
* [[User:BillMcMillin|Bill McMillin]] (Pratt Institute) - Documentarian
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) - LPC Contact (v)
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]] (Cal College of the Arts)
* [[User:Sarahshealy| Sarah Shealy]] (Greenville (SC) County Public Library)
* [[User:JennC| Jennifer Colt]] (Cornell University Library)
* [[User:LaurenAjamie| Lauren Ajamie]] (University of Notre Dame Library)
* [[User:MichaelSchofield| Michael Schofield]] ( @schoeyfield )
* [[User:LukeAeschleman| Luke Aeschleman]] (UNC - Chapel Hill | Health Sciences Library)
* [[User:Wickr|Ryan Wick]]
* [[User:cbeer|Chris Beer]]
* [[User:ksattler| Kelly Sattler]] (Michigan State University Libraries)

== Sponsorship Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure all who want to support the conference have the opportunity to do so. Sponsorship Committee work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.

* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* David Uspal (Villanova) - LPC Contact (v)
* Morgan McKeehan
* Ray Schwartz
* Sharon Whitfield (Rowan University)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public) (v)

== Keynote Committee ==
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.

* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)

== Additional Committees... Coming Soon! ==
* Book Give-Away
* Childcare
* Onsite Volunteer
* Preconference
* Program
* Scholarship
* Social Activities
* Streaming Video
* T-Shirt
* Voting
* Whatever
* Wifi/Electrical
* IRC
* Reception?

2014 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Bonfieldb:

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2014. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order. Suggestions will close on August 30, 2013 at midnight (EDT), which will be followed by a community vote. We will contact nominees before the vote to confirm their interest.

==Sarah Allen==

"Sarah Allen is a serial innovator with a history of developing leading-edge products, such as After Effects, Shockwave, Flash video, and OpenLaszlo. She has a habit of recognizing great and timely ideas, finding talented teams, and creating compelling software. She has led small and large teams and confidently turns vision into reality.

...

Sarah leads an innovative product strategy, design & development company, Blazing Cloud, and in her spare time works to diversify the Ruby on Rails with RailsBridge, which she co-founded in 2009. In keeping with her belief that programming is a life skill, she also regularly volunteers teaching programming to kids. Sarah believes that open source software provides solid technical foundations and compelling business models. She is an expert with Ruby and Rails and was a member of the OpenLaszlo core team, where she coded in asynchronous Javascript before it was cool."

http://www.ultrasaurus.com/about/

==John Allspaw==
John Allspaw (https://twitter.com/allspaw) is the Senior Vice President for Technical Operations at Etsy (http://etsy.com). Prior to that he built infrastructure for Salon, InfoWorld, Flickr, and others. His publications include "Web Operations" and "The Art of Capacity Planning". You can find his blog at http://www.kitchensoap.com/.

As library development teams grow from single programmers writing "glue" scripts to small teams working together on mid size web apps and further to large development shops producing complex and large scale systems, they find themselves struggling with issues of scale. These issues of scale are not just with the systems being built, but with the operations of the team itself. Operations can often be overlooked during the daily routine of project meetings, writing code, fixing bugs, etc. John's insights on operations and capacity planning would be useful to the library development community, particularly for those in departments that are maturing from one or two programmers to mid-size or larger development teams.

==Amber Case==
Amber Case is a researcher exploring the field of cyborg anthropology and the interaction between humans and technology. She has been featured in Forbes, WIRED, and many other publications, both in the United States and around the world. Her main focus is mobile software, non-visual augmented reality, the future of location, and reducing the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect. Case has spoken at TED on technology and humans and was featured in Fast Company 2010 as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology. She’s worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy and on major applications at Vertigo Software. In 2012 she was named one of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers and made Inc Magazine's 30 under 30 with Geoloqi co-founder Aaron Parecki. She is @caseorganic on Twitter. Geoloqi was acquired by global mapping company Esri in October 2012.

http://caseorganic.com/

==Michael Dalessio==
Director at Pivotal Labs, co-author of Nokogiri, extreme web scraper, and advocate for pair-programming and Agile development. A sampling of some of his open-source contributions:
http://www.daless.io/projects.html

==Cory Doctorow==
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

==Jeri Ellsworth==

Jerrielsworth.com, Jeri Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, in 2004, called C64 Direct-to-TV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

==Limor Fried==
'In 2003, Fried earned her BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from MIT. She stayed on, and earned a Master of Engineering in EECS in 2005. She is the founder of Adafruit Industries, as well as the engineer behind the electronic kits sold by the company.

In 2009, she was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her participation in the open source hardware and software community.

In 2005 Fried began New York-based Adafruit Industries after receiving her master's degree at MIT.

In 2011, Fried was awarded the Most Influential Women in Technology award by Fast Company magazine.

Entrepreneur magazine named Fried "Entrepreneur of the Year" in its January 2013 issue. In 2012 Limor was the only female finalist against 14 other male finalist entrepreneurs. Also in 2012, Fried became the first female engineer featured on the cover of Wired. [3] In an interview with CNET, Fried said, "If there's one thing I'd like to see from this, it would be for some kids say to themselves "I could do that" and start the journey to becoming an engineer and entrepreneur."'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried

[http://www.ladyada.net/ Personal site]

==Jeff Gothelf==
Jeff Gothelf is a product designer who recently published ''Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience'' (O’Reilly 2013).

==Sumana Harihareswara==

Engineering community manager at Wikipedia. Advisor of the [http://adainitiative.org/about-us/advisors/ Ada Initiative]. Regular in #libtechwomen IRC channel. [https://twitter.com/brainwane @brainwane].

[http://www.harihareswara.net/ Personal site]

[http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/2012/Keynote_by_Sumana_Harihareswara Keynoted Open Source Bridge]

==Gene Kim==

Gene’s area of passion is helping companies build super-tribes where Development, IT Operations, Product and Project Management and Information Security simultaneously maximize throughput of features from “code complete” to “in production,” without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He’s helped some of the largest Internet properties, such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft companies he’s worked with Microsoft. He loves finding and fixing bottlenecks which impede and frustrate the entire organization, enabling management from each tribe to achieve the greater organizational goals.
http://www.realgenekim.me/speaking/

==Sarah Lacy==

Founder of PandoDaily, tech journalist and author. I (Roy) saw her speak and she was awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lacy

==Brian Mathews==
Brian Mathews is Associate Dean for Learning & Outreach at Virginia Tech. Mathews is the author of The Ubiquitous Librarian[1], about designing better user experiences and the pursuit of use-sensitive libraries. He is the author of the paper, Think Like A Startup[2], which advocates for the concepts of Eric Ries in the library domain.

[1]http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/
[2]http://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/18649

==Jessica McKellar==
Jessica Mckellar is "an entrepreneur, software engineer, and open source developer". She is a maintainer for [http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ Twisted] python library and [https://openhatch.org/ OpenHatch], "a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education". A Director of the Python Software Foundation and an organizer of the Boston Python Meetup, she has successful record of promoting diversity within the Python community and developing great open source projects.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrITN6GZDu4 Jessica McKellar and Asheesh Laroia speaking] about diversity outreach in the Boston Python User Group

[http://pyvideo.org/speaker/377/jessica-mckellar more of her talks]

Jessica McKellar was also personally supportive of the Library Code Year Interest Group's work in adapting the Boston Python Workshop for ALA, and helped secure sponsorship from the PSF for this event.

==Jennifer Pahlka==
Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America, currently on leave, serving as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States under CTO Todd Park. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government. The Oxford Internet Institute awarded her the 2012 Internet and Society Award, Government Technology named her one of 2011’s Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in Public Sector Innovation and the Huffington Post named her the top Game Changer in Business and Technology the same year. She spent eight years at CMP Media where she ran the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com and the Independent Games Festival. Previously, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media, and co-chaired the successful Web 2.0 Expo.

== Jukka Pennanen & Mace Ojala ==

Jukka Pennanen & Mace Ojala are the primary organizers of the Cycling For Libraries Unconference ( http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org/ )

"Founded in 2011, the Cycling for libraries is an international cycling conference for librarians and library lovers. It aims to advocate libraries and increase awareness of the valuable services and resources that libraries offer to the community."

I was lucky enough to participate in this event last summer and I think it was an incredible experience. I think Jukka and Mace have a great perspective in how to organize a wide encompassing international library community.

== Mark Pilgrim ==

Before committing infocide in 2011, Mark Pilgrim produced five highly regarded books, including Dive Into Python, Dive Into Accessibility, and Dive Into HTML5, as well as one of the more popular blogs for some time, Dive Into Mark. He helped create and promote the Atom standards, and has been an active and persuasive promoter of open source, standards, and accessibility. Although he is mostly offline these days, he is contributing to the Firefox project. And he may be willing to address code4lib because he lives in nearby Cary and because his mother was a librarian.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim_(software_developer) Wikipedia entry]

[http://vimeo.com/22329418 Speech at Webstock 2011]

== Daniel Reetz ==

Daniel Reetz is the mastermind behind http://www.diybookscanner.org/ . It is an incredible community building open source software and hardware for book scanning using affordable consumer equipment. The project has evolved incredibly over the last few years and now include beautifully hackerspace-made scanner kits. He seems like a great speaker and I believe his perspective would be different from the traditional academic/research library focus.

== Kathy Sierra ==

Kathy Sierra has been interested in the brain and artificial intelligence since her days as a game developer (Virgin, Amblin', MGM). She is the co-creator of the bestselling Head First series (finalist for a Jolt Software Development award in 2003, and named to the Amazon Top Ten Editors Choice Computer Books for 2003 and 2004). She is also the founder of one of the largest community web sites in the world, javaranch.com. Kathy's passions are skiing, running, her Icelandic horse, gravity, and her latest favorite thing--Dance Dance Revolution.

http://headrush.typepad.com/about.html

== David Silver ==

David Silver is an associate professor of media studies and environmental studies at the University of San Francisco where he teaches classes on media history, digital media production, and green media. David co-directs USF's Garden Project, a freshmen-to-senior living learning community built around an organic garden on campus. He blogs at http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/. He was the keynote at the TRLN Annual Meeting and talked about the importance of the Library as a keystone to his teaching of media studies, the Library as a keystone of collective curiosity and community action, and why we should enable students to contribute back to the Library. Some quotes I tweeted from his talk:

* "Too often library instruction starts at library databases. Librarians, this has to stop."
* "I want my seniors to contribute to the library, to give something back."
* "Whenever there is community curiosity and collective action, that's where the library should be."

I believe his keynote would be motivational in reflecting how what we do in Code4Lib is critical to Libraries support his mission as a professor and researcher, his students, and the community at large. Expect humor, humility, and creativity from David Silver.

==Victoria Stodden==

She is a co-founder of http://www.RunMyCode.org, an open platform for disseminating the code and data associated with published results, and enabling independent and public cloud-based verification of methods and findings, and an assistant professor of Statistics at Columbia University, and affiliated with the Columbia University Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. She just recently gave a great keynote at Open Repositories. http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Bio.html

==Andromeda Yelton==

Formerly a developer with Unglue.it, she recently left full-time work there to work to help people learn to code. I (Roy) would love to hear her talk about how to help people break into coding. http://andromedayelton.com/about/

==John Unsworth==
John Unsworth is the Vice-Provost for Library and Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Brandeis University. Prior coming to Brandeis, he was Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 2003 to 2012. In addition to being a Professor in GSLIS, at Illinois he also held appointments in the department of English and on the Library faculty. At Illinois he also served as Director of the Illinois Informatics Institute, from 2008 to 2011.
http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/

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Code4Lib 2014 Conference Planning Volunteers

2013-05-01T19:41:07Z

Bonfieldb: /* Sponsorships Committee */

= Code4Lib 2014 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2014 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (called 'committees' for lack of a better term). Each committee should select a committee lead that will coordinate the activities of the committee and its work with the hosting site. Discussions of a non-sensitive nature should take place on the Code4LibCon mailing list for transparency and future reference. Please feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees.

We hope to include at least one local person on each committee.

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

This committee solicits books and other prizes to be given away in raffles during the conference. This committee is responsible for identifying some means of performing the actual raffle (aka, a random picker app or other tool for selecting winners). Drawing names out of a hat could be low-tech entertaining.

* Kevin S. Clarke (O'Reilly) and general wrangling

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

This committee plans who to invite for the keynote speakers. They gather possibilities (including soliciting from the community), organize voting, and work with the speakers to arrange their travel.

* Jason Casden

== Onsite Volunteer Committee ==

This committee solicits volunteers to do whatever tasks are needed in person at the conference.

* Kevin S. Clarke

== Program Committee ==

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. This includes soliciting both pre-conferences and regular talks. These folks will also manage the flow of the program at the conference -- introducing speakers or soliciting other volunteers to MC.

== Scholarships Committee ==

This committee works with funding institutions to arrange the scholarships offered. They solicit submissions and select winners of the scholarship(s). They also work with the winners to plan their travel and arrangements.

== Social Activities Committee ==

The committee plans, proposes, and organizes the evening activities.

* Jason Raitz
* Rosalyn Metz
* Dre
* Becky Yoose

== Sponsorships Committee ==

This committee organizes the sponsorship activities. For 2014, this responsibility will include evaluating new levels of sponsorship that provide new types of benefits to sponsors (ex: vendor tables in the conference area, handouts / flyers, etc.). Usually it includes people within the Code4Lib community who think their institution or company might be interested in sponsoring the conference. These folks may not be the decision makers at the sponsors, but they are Code4Lib's contacts.

* Tim McGeary (lead worrier)
* Roy Tennant
* Shaun Ellis (shaune@princeton.edu)
* Robert H. McDonald (Indiana)
* Sean Chen (Duke)
* Thomas Dowling (Wake Forest)
* Will Sexton (Duke)
* Jeff Campbell (UNC-CH)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)

== Streaming Video Committee ==

This committee is responsible for working with local hosts to figure out what resources are available to enable video / streaming video for the conference.

- Francis Kayiwa

== T-Shirt Committee ==

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes. This committee is also responsible for helping the local planning committee identify a vendor that will fit within the budget constraints for the conference.

== Voting Activities Committee ==

This committee organizes the voting process and works with the other committees that involve voting (keynote, program, T-shirt) to ensure a relatively smooth process.

== Whatever Committee ==

This committee does whatever the organizers can't talk anyone else into doing.

* Francis Kayiwa
* Kevin S. Clarke
* Dre

== Wifi / Electrical / IRC Committee==

This committee is responsible for working with local planners to ensure that wifi will be able to support the needs of the code4lib community, figuring out how much electrical will be needed and ensuring it is available, and making sure that the IRC will run smoothly at the conference. These folks may be called on during the conference to help CONCENTRA remedy problems that occur.

* [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com

This is a newly proposed committee.

= Documentation =
To help with documention, no need to sign up, just start editing.
* [[How To Plan A Code4LibCon]]

== Documentation Interest Group ==
Promote ongoing documentation efforts.

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