Coraline Ehmke
Co-Founder, Board Member at Organization for Ethical Source (OES)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarCoraline Ehmke is an internationally recognized tech ethicist, activist, and software engineer with 11 years of experience building safer, more equitable digital communities. As co-founder and board member of (m)otherboard and the Organization for Ethical Source, she has designed consent-based governance and authorship tools—most notably shaping the Contributor Covenant and the Hippocratic License—that have influenced open source norms worldwide. She combines hands-on engineering (front-end contributions to the widely used Contributor Covenant site) with executive leadership in nonprofits and research labs, where she explores ethical AI/LLM integration and feminist data models. Former roles at GitHub and Stitch Fix show deep product and trust-and-safety expertise, including founding teams and developer experience initiatives that scaled to hundreds of engineers. Based in Chicago, she’s equally at home drafting policy, raising six-figure philanthropic support, and shipping UI/CSS improvements that improve contributor experience—an unusual blend of grassroots community work and technical craft.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
EthicalSource/contributor_covenant
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
Pledge your respect and appreciation for contributors of all kinds to your open source project.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 170 reviews, 852 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Coraline primarily focused on modifying the HTML and CSS of the project, making changes to the layout, styling, and visual presentation. They fixed title issues, merged content, and added styling to the main CSS file, enhancing the overall look and feel. The user also contributed to the page content, adding elements and updating a list. Their work directly improved the visual presentation and user experience of the Contributor Covenant website.
codeofconducttranslationsdiversityinclusivityopen-source-project
ContributorCovenant/beacon
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
A code of conduct reporting and management system created by Coraline Ada Ehmke, the author of the Contributor Covenant.
Contributions:655 commits, 296 PRs, 448 pushes in 1 year 1 month
covenantcodeofconductadamanagement-systemreporting
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