Hello friends!

My name is Leah. I'm a long-time open source enthusiast, who believes strongly that everyone can be involved in OSS—not just engineers! My personal path was focused on logistics, events, project governance, and all other sorts of operational things, and yours could really be anything at all. The world of OSS is big, and there's SO much to do.

Aside from what I can fit into my day job (which is thankfully privileged enough provide me lots of time to work on Open Source ecosystems), I'm specifically passionate about helping more women in open source take leadership positions. I do this largely via mentorship, evangelism, and creating and running programs at events and in online communities that further such goals. On all fronts I believe that representation matters, and that most environments can absolutely be tailored to make that happen—just takes a small bit of effort and accomodation.

I spend lots of my free time on projects like Ember Women Helping Women, the Ember Mentorship Program, promoting Babies at work programs, and bouncing around the internet reminding people about all the amazing women and other underrepresented folks who could make wonderful differences in their communities and projects.

I welcome this as yet another opportunity to do the work I love doing, and spread the word about all the improvements folks could be making to their environments, programs and communities. How can I help?