Amelia Cousins Greenhall is an
American feminist
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tech blogger. She cofounded feminist tech blog and publication ''Model View Culture'' with
Shanley Kane. Greenhall is co-founder and Executive Director of
Double Union, a feminist women-and-non-binary-people-only
hackerspace
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in
San Francisco
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, with
Valerie Aurora, and is a
Quantified Self
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enthusiast.
Greenhall is the publisher and co-founder of ''Open Review Quarterly'', a literary journal on modern culture (founded in September 2010).
Prior to co-founding ''Model View Culture'' in November 2013, Greenhall was a
user experience design
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er,
user interface design
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er and
data scientist
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in
Seattle
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. She left ''Model View Culture'' in May 2014.
Born in
Hawaii
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and raised in
Arizona
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, Greenhall is a 2009
studio art
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and
electrical engineering
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graduate of
Vanderbilt University
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in
Tennessee
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. She went on to earn a master's degree in public health at the
University of Washington
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.
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