Amelia Greenhall
| Amelia Greenhall | |
|---|---|
| Born | Amelia Cousins |
| Residence | San Francisco Bay Area, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Vanderbilt University (Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Studio Art, 2009) University of Washington (Master of Science, Public Health, 2011) |
| Occupation | Executive Director of Double Union |
| Known for | Feminist tech blogging |
| Notable work | Model View Culture, Open Review Quarterly |
| Spouse(s) | Adam Greenhall |
| Website | Official website |
Amelia Cousins Greenhall is an American feminist tech blogger. She cofounded feminist tech blog and publication Model View Culture with Shanley Kane. Greenhall is co-founder and Executive Director of Double Union, a feminist women-only hackerspace in San Francisco, with Valerie Aurora, and is a Quantified Self enthusiast.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Greenhall is the publisher and co-founder of Open Review Quarterly, a literary journal on modern culture (founded in September 2010).
Prior to co-founding Model View Culture in November 2013, Greenhall was a user experience designer, user interface designer and data scientist in Seattle.[10] She left Model View Culture in May 2014.
Born in Hawaii and raised in Arizona, Greenhall is a 2009 studio art and electrical engineering graduate of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. She went on to earn a master's degree in public health at the University of Washington.[1][11]
References
- 1 2 Greenfield, Rebecca (July 14, 2014). "Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space". Fast Company. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
- ↑ Glenn Fleishman (January 2, 2014). "New Disruptors 56: Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall". BoingBoing. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ↑ Rose Eveleth (December 15, 2014). "How Self-Tracking Apps Exclude Women". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ↑ Alexia Tsotsis (January 29, 2015). "What (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
We’re making progress, whether it’s women like Adi Tartako who grew Houzz to a multi-billion dollar business, Tracy Chou who has moved up the engineering ranks of some of the Valley’s best companies, Gina Bianchini who isn’t afraid of failure or women like Amelia Greenhall and Shanley Kane, the co-founders of Model View Culture, who rightly decided there needed to be a whole publication dedicated to the systematic marginalization of certain groups in tech.
- ↑ Lucy Prebble (March 11, 2014). "Video games must change. Right now they are too white and too male". The Guardian. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
One of those is Shanley Kane, who along with Amelia Greenhall, left the mainstream tech industry last year to found Model View Culture, a media company providing writing about technology, culture and diversity with a site as crisp and clean as the prose it contains.
- ↑ Claire Cain Miller (April 5, 2014). "Technology's Man Problem". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
Amelia Greenhall and Shanley Kane, technologists and writers, started Model View Culture, a publication about technology, culture and diversity, in which Ms. Kane recently wrote about how myths of tech culture work to “exclude and marginalize minorities.”
- ↑ Monica Guzman (March 2, 2013). "Analyze this: Quantified Self is not as geeky as you think". The Seattle Times blog. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ↑ Alissa Quart (July 13, 2013). "Body of evidence". Irish Examiner. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
Greenhall, 26, a programmer at a startup in San Francisco who runs the Quantified Self Meetup group there, calls QS a “mindfulness practice”; For seven years, Greenhall has tracked her weight every day and then calculated a 10-day running average.
- ↑ Sonya Mann (February 17, 2015). "What Women In Technology Wear To Compete With Their Male Colleagues—Or, The Implication Of Your Pencil Skirt". Bustle. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
Amelia Greenhall is a notable example of a self-identified “tech feminist.”
- ↑ Rebecca Greenfield (January 16, 2014). "MODEL VIEW CULTURE, A NEW TECH PUBLICATION THE INTERNET ACTUALLY NEEDS". Fast Company. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ↑ "Amelia Greenhall". ameliagreenhall.com. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
