Liz Henry Explained

Liz Henry
Occupation:Blogger, author, translator, technologist, activist

Liz Henry (born 1969) is an American blogger, author, translator, technologist, and activist. She is a co-founder of the first women's hackerspace in San Francisco, Double Union,[1] where she is still active.[2] She is also an advocate for disability technology and hacking existing technology for use by disabled people.[3]

Career

Henry is a senior release manager at Twitch.[4] Previously, she was the Firefox release manager and bugmaster for Mozilla.[5] She has also served on the advisory board of the GimpGirl Community and The Ada Initiative. In 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Henry flew to Houston to help the evacuees. She worked with Technology For All to help people use technology to reconnect and rebuild.[6]

In 2007, Henry co-organized BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, California.[7] [8]

In 2011, Henry played a key role in the unveiling of A Gay Girl In Damascus.[9] [10] She questioned whether the purported writer of the blog, Amina Arraf, actually existed.[11]

In 2012, Aqueduct Press published a book of her poems, Unruly Islands. Henry also edited The WisCon Chronicles: Vol. 3: The Carnival of Feminist SF, the third of a series of anthologies of articles about, or inspired by, the feminist science fiction convention WisCon, held every year in Madison, Wisconsin.[12]

In 2017, Cardboard House Press published her translation of Chilean poet and writer Carmen Berenguer's book My Lai.[13]

Personal life

Henry and Danny O'Brien married in October 2018.[14]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space. Greenfield. Rebecca. 14 July 2014. Fast Company. 17 March 2016.
  2. Web site: Meet San Francisco's All-Women Hackerspace, Double Union. Cassandra. Rachel. 9 December 2015. Bitch Media. 17 March 2016.
  3. News: Panel Recap: Hack Ability: Open Source Disability Tech. Farr. Rebecca. 17 March 2009. The Austin Chronicle. 17 March 2016.
  4. Web site: Liz Henry . Henry . Liz . LinkedIn . 11 May 2020.
  5. Web site: Mozillians: Liz Henry. Mozilla. mozillians.org. 23 March 2016.
  6. Andreoli. Richard. 8 November 2005. We're Here to Help. The Advocate. 17 March 2016.
  7. Web site: Are You Ready To Bar Camp? . Techcrunch.com . 11 August 2007 . 24 August 2022.
  8. Web site: BarCampBlock, BarCamp Returns To Its Roots . LaughingSquid.com . 11 August 2007 . 24 August 2022.
  9. Web site: Painful doubts about Amina. bookmaniac.org. 7 June 2011 . 23 March 2016.
  10. Web site: Character profile: Liz Henry. The Amina Profile – Le profil Amina de Sophie Deraspe. 23 March 2016.
  11. News: Paula Brooks, Editor of Lesbian Site Lez Get Real, Is Really a Man Named Bill Graber. Flock. Elizabeth. 13 June 2011. The Washington Post. Bell. Melissa. 16 March 2016.
  12. http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-933500-30-0.php The WisCon Chronicles (Vol 3): Carnival of Feminist SF publisher's page
  13. News: Nota Benes, January 2018. 2017-12-07. World Literature Today. 2018-01-05.
  14. Web site: City Hall . Liz Henry . 18 July 2020 . 31 October 2018 .

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