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Nominated Alison Macrina
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."
== 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.
== Lauren Pressley ==
