Meet the Author: Coraline Ada Ehmke
Coraline Ada Ehmke is an internationally recognized tech ethicist and software engineer advancing human rights and promoting equity in the technology industry. Her work has helped shape global conversations on digital governance, community accountability, and the social responsibility of technologists.
Coraline is best known as the creator of Contributor Covenant, the first and most widely-adopted code of conduct for online 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 open 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 co-founded the Organization for Ethical Source, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting equity and human rights in open source software. She is a founding God(m)other of (m)otherboard, a feminist tech justice collective bending the arc of technology from individual convenience to collective good. Coraline also serves on the board of the Governance Futures Network, a nonprofit initiative working to promote democracy in a fully digital age.
Send her a message or visit her personal site at https://where.coraline.codes.