Lauren Maffeo has reported on and worked within the global technology sector. She started her career as a freelance journalist covering tech trends for The Guardian and The Next Web from London. Today, she works as a service designer for Steampunk, a human-centered design firm building civic tech solutions for government agencies. Prior to Steampunk, Lauren was an associate principal analyst at Gartner, where she covered the impact of emerging tech like AI and blockchain on small and midsize business owners.
An advocate of open access publishing, Lauren serves as a founding editor of Springer's AI and Ethics journal, the first multidisciplinary journal on this subject. She is also an area editor for the open access Data and Policy journal with Cambridge University Press. Lauren has spoken at open source events including the Open Source Summits in North America and Europe, All Things Open, DrupalCon North America, DrupalGovCon, and GitHub Universe.
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Well said. Over the last year, I've drawn a clear line between lots of in-the-moment anxieties back to childhood/high school. It's amazing - and sad - how early traumas haunt us into adulthood, and stay silent until they pop out at the worst possible times. That said, knowing that's where they come from helps the healing process. It's a horribly slow process, but better than the alternative.