Dear cool person, you're invited to an evening filled with some drinking and thinking with:
Panel 1: Staying Private in Public (Libraries) | Why is privacy education particularly important to libraries and what are librarians doing about it? | Panelists: Alison Macrina, Nima Fatemi, Andromeda Yelton & Jason Griffey
Panel 2: Critical Pedagogy, Cats, and #critlib | How a monthly twitter chat is redefining the role of librarians in the public sphere and shaping the future of radical librarianship | Panelists: Annie Pho, Emily Drabinski & Sarah Hackney
community curator: Jennie Rose Halperin
Note: This month's Drink Salon will feature community announcements, discussion, and awesome music curated by DJ Lychee.
We'll have some light snacks and drinks (boozy & non-boozy) for you as well!
RSVP is required for entrance. 21+ event. Bring I.D.
Seating is limited to 70 guests.
Suggested donation: $8 or pay what you can at door.
Your donations at the door go directly to help cover the use of the space, drinks, and food that make Drink Salon possible!
About EMW Drink Salon on Tech & Ethics
EMW's Drink Salon on Tech and Ethics brings together a community and a supportive space to spark challenging discussions on the role of technology in our everyday lives. Each month, we invite featured speakers to lead a conversation. We encourage salon guests to make new connections and to think critically about how technology relates to some of the most important questions we ask humanity.
#EMWDrinkSalon | @TechethicsDS
Scroll down for speaker/ organizer bios &
a schedule for the night!
Jennie is the Product Engagement Manager at Safari Books Online and librarian. Jennie is passionate about the future of libraries, and has spoken widely about information science, open source, the Internet, and community.
She is also a writer, activist, storyteller, and avid reader who counts cultural theory, museums, feminism, gardening, German, history, and tap dance among her (very) varied interests.
Andromeda is a self employed librarian and software developer who's passionate about promoting coding, collaboration, and diversity
in library technology. As a freelance software developer, she writes code for bespoke knitting patterns and library space usage analytics, among other things.
In the past, she’s done library
outreach, software, and communications at the ebook startup Unglue.it; taught Latin to middle school boys; and been a member of the Ada Initiative advisory board.
She has a BS in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, an MA in Classics from Tufts, and an MLS from Simmons. She’s a 2010 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing awardee, a 2011 ALA Emerging Leader, and a 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker; and a past listener contestant on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. She is a member of the LITA Board of Directors.
Alison is a librarian, privacy activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedoms.
Alison is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and giant multinational corporations. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s reading.
Evenly Distributed
Berkman Fellow
Jason Griffey is the founder and principal at Evenly Distributed, a technology consulting and creation firm for libraries, museums, education, and other non-profits. Jason is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was formerly an Associate Professor and Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
@fiiidget
libraryshack.org
Sarah Hackney is a library school student at Pratt's School of Information, where her interests include communities of knowledge creation, the power dynamics of the librarian/patron interaction, and the shortcomings of language-based communication.
She is the President of SILSSA, which is the Pratt SI Student Association and ALA Student Chapter.
