2022 Keynote Speakers Nominations

Code4Lib 2022 will take place May 23 and May 26, 2022 in Buffalo, NY.

We encourage nominations for speakers located in the Great Lakes region, but welcome nominations from any location.

We will be accepting nominations from October 28, 2021 until November 18, 2021.

Please include a description and any relevant links. Please try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

The criteria for nominating a candidate to act as keynote are below:

• Speaker’s name (First Name, Last Name)
• Brief description of individual (250-word max)
• Pertinent links (Maximum of 3)
• Contact information of candidate (email address)

If you would prefer to submit a nomination anonymously, please send your nominee(s) to Margaret Heller at mheller1@luc.edu mheller1@luc.edu.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

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

[mailto:email_link.foo nominee's email address]

Jane works at ________, doing _______.

Some pertinent history/biography/hyperlinks that elucidates why Jane would be a good keynote speaker.

janes_email_address

Lauren is a Ph.D. student at the Berkeley iSchool, focused on data and society issues. Previously she was staff technologist at the ACLU of Massachusetts, where (among other things) she fought against government use of facial recognition technology and co-organized a workshop where drag queens taught anti-surveillance makeup techniques in a public library. Before that, she was an astrophysicist.

web site contact page

Serena has worked on anti-racist tech equity and policy issues at Data & Society and Greenlining. "Serena received a BA in History from Seattle University where she also minored in Philosophy, Business, Global African Studies, and Mandarin", and all of that background shows up in her talks. She's worked and studied in England, Poland, and Ghana.

(I have her email address from non-public sources, so I'm not going to put it on the wiki, but I can reach out to her. --andromeda)