Annalee Newitz is an inspiration for tech bloggers/writers everywhere! From the bio on her site:

Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture, and the future. She’s the founding editor of io9, a publication that covers science and science fiction, and is currently the editor-in-chief of popular tech site Gizmodo. She’s the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday and Anchor), which was nominated for a 2013 LA Times book prize.

She’s also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She’s co-editor of the essay collection She’s Such A Geek (Seal Press), and author of Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press). Formerly, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.

Here are a few more salient facts about Annalee:

• She has a weakness for kaiju movies.
• Her favorite food is spicy noodles, of any kind.
• She is currently working on a book about urban crisis and the evolution of cities.
• She wears ties so you don’t have to.

Read her posts from ion here and Gizmodo here.

October 13th is Ada Lovelace Day! Today the world celebrates all of the accomplishments of women in science, art, design, technology, engineering, and math. Each year, Adafruit highlights a number of women who are pioneering their fields and inspiring women of all ages to make their voices heard. Today we will be sharing the stories of women that we think are modern day “Adas” alongside historical women that have made impacts in science and math.

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