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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

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Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [Magic Vibes Corporation http://magicvibes.co/]. 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."
 
== 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 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.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==
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