Meet the Author: Coraline Ada Ehmke
Coraline Ada Ehmke is an internationally recognized tech ethicist, activist, and software engineer. For more than a decade, she’s worked on practical approaches to promoting the values of diversity, equity, and justice in the technology industry. As a highly sought-after speaker, she has delivered keynotes at technology conferences on five continents.
Coraline is best known as the creator of Contributor Covenant, the first and most widely-adopted code of conduct for open source communities. She was recognized for her contributions to open source with a Ruby Hero Award in 2016. In 2018 she addressed the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights on the topic of human rights abuses by tech companies. In 2019, she authored the Hippocratic License, an innovative ethical source license tied to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
She is an alumna of The Omidyar Network’s “The Tech We Want” Luminary program, a group of technology leaders collaborating on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation. Coraline also serves as chair of the board of the Governance Futures Network, an initiative exploring the future of democracy in a fully digital age. She founded and directs the Organization for Ethical Source, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting ethics and equity in the practice of software development.
You can connect with Coraline on Github, Mastodon, Bluesky, and LinkedIn, or visit her personal site at https://where.coraline.codes.