Biography:

A graduate of Smith College in Computer Science and Theatre, Liana Leahy has worked in application development, maintenance and project management in various technologies. She came to the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School with experience in a variety of software development tools, object oriented methodologies, and relational databases.

Liana drank the Ruby on Rails kool-aide in late 2006 and has been happily coding ror web applications ever since. Her endeavors at Berkman include organizing a Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women as well as gathering tech geeks for a newbie friendly, monthly Open Source Code Crunch promoting mixed gender collaboration. She is most proud of founding the Berkman Gender and Technology Committee and frequently blogs to the Gender and Tech site as well as to her personal blog Geek Mama: Exploits of a Mom on Rails.