Liz Henry

Liz Henry
File:Liz Henry presenting at Web2Open 2007.jpg Presenting at Web2Open 2007

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

Biography

Henry is the Firefox release manager and bugmaster for Mozilla. 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.

In 2011, Henry played a key role in the unveiling of A Gay Girl In Damascus. She questioned whether the writer, Amina Arraf, did not actually exist.

In 2012 Aqueduct Press published a book of her poems, Unruly Islands. Henry also edited The WisCon Chronicles: Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction.