Sumana Harihareswara has served on the Motherboard for the Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree Award) since mid-2017. She is a co-editor and co-publisher of the Creative Commons-licensed anthology Thoughtcrime Experiments (2009).
She's written a weekly newspaper column, taught and performed stand-up comedy (including the Otherwise Award fundraising auction, traditionally a yearly event at WisCon), made fanvids, advocated for opening public health data, and worked on open source software projects, including the software behind Wikipedia.
She founded Changeset Consulting in 2015 to provide short-term, targeted project management for open source software and the companies that depend on it. Her work has earned her an Open Source Citizen Award and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus.
She lives in New York City with her spouse, author Leonard Richardson. She blogs at https://harihareswara.net and microblogs in the Fediverse at https://social.coop/@brainwane/ .