by Tara Robertson | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog
Being asked to keynote code4lib was a literal dream come true for me. I shared some of the diversity and inclusion work we’re doing at Mozilla, called out whiteness and racism in libraries and shared some personal stuff. This wasn’t the first time...
by Tara Robertson | Nov 20, 2018 | Blog
It was such an honour to be invited to speak at National Digital Forum in Wellington. This was the biggest talk I’ve ever done and it’s the first talk I’ve done on the diversity and inclusion. I surprised myself by how emotional I got at the end and...
by Tara Robertson | Aug 12, 2018 | Blog
Amber Dawn invited me to share the story of my queer “root” as part of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival’s program. It was an honour to be on stage with poet and marketing pro, David Ly; filmmaker and artist in residence Thirza Cuthand, wizard, goldsmith and...
by Tara Robertson | Nov 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
It was such an honor to be invited to speak on a panel at OpenCon with Denisse Albornoz, Thomas Mboa, and Siko Bouterse. Lorraine Chuen did an amazing job putting the panel together and moderating. Lorraine’s questions were: How do the solutions put forth by the...
by Tara Robertson | Oct 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
October 16th will be my first day in my new career at Mozilla on the Diversity and Inclusion team. I’ve been telling people I’m going to be a feminist data driven storyteller, but the scope of the job is a little bigger than that. I’m really excited...