Valerie Aurora
Hi, I am Valerie Anita Aurora, a writer, speaker, and corporate trainer. I am founder and principal consultant at Frame Shift Consulting, which provides ally skills training to tech companies. I was co-founder and Executive Director of the Ada Initiative, a non-profit to promote women in open technology and culture. Before that, I was a Linux kernel developer specializing in file systems for about a decade.
Advocacy
The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities Rebooting the Ada Lovelace Mythos DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters HOWTO therapy: what psychotherapy is, how to find a therapist, and when to fire your therapistTech stuff
Debugging satellites, nuclear explosions, and giant space lasers My favorite operating systems debugging story The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf series Linux Weekly News articles The "rainbow chart" of cryptographic hash function lifetimes The ultimate physical limits of computation My visit to the Honeywell Kitchen ComputerSelected press
Ada Lovelace in the New Yorker, 2013 Google adopts ally skills training in USA Today, 2015 Why men should fight sexism in The Guardian, 2016 Discrimination against women in tech in the New Yorker, 2017 Implementing the Paradox of Tolerance in tech in Boing Boing, 2018 Linux kernel culture in the New Yorker, 2018Contact info
For questions relating to corporate training, please email valerie at frameshiftconsulting dot com. For everything else, please use valerie dot aurora at gmail dot com.