5 summers ago I was a Fellow at Polaris and hacked together a way to track sex trafficking using Google Reader. At the time, Craigslist appeared to be the dominant market for commercial sex and like today, every Craigslist section has an RSS feed. I sat in my rented room in Northern Virginia after work at […]
Continue reading →The friends to whom I’ve posed the question in this title often begin confidently: “Sure! Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, umm, Anita Borg, ummmmmmm. Um.” Then follows an embarrassed silence. Women have been a part of the history of computing from the very beginning, but our stories are rarely remembered and seldom told. Dr Susan Rodger, my Mom […]
Continue reading →I spent the weekend dress as Jennifer Walters, or She-Hulk, at this weekend’s Awesome Con in Washington D.C. It was fun in the joyous ways all theater is fun–I had make-up, I sewed my costume, I had lines and did research and played with a cast of thousands. But this weekend was also my first time cosplaying […]
Continue reading →I had the great fun of organizing a panel on one of my favorite bills this federal legislation session, H.R. 3344. You can learn a lot watching the video below, or you can read the infographic I designed, peruse the stories I curated, or sign the petition I wrote. Seriously, I like this bill. Also, […]
Continue reading →If you’re listening to anything I say through Polaris’s social media channels, you’ve probably heard about Safe Harbor laws. Safe Harbor laws are a kind of law to combat human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking of people under 18, as well as other forms of commercial sexual exploitation of people under 18 which are not always […]
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