Nikki Stevens

Nikki Stevens is a long-time software engineer and a open-source contributor and nd advocate for ethical, inclusive and anti-racist engineering practices.  In 2016, she founded the Drupal Diversity & Inclusion (DD&I) group specifically to make Drupal a safe(r) space for minority-identified contributors. The DD&I team has expanded the group from five to five hundred members, organized events at DrupalCons and developed new contributor mentorship and training pathways.

At ASU, Nikki currently a PhD student in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology program, where she is studying software engineering ethics, data ontologies and inclusive ways to create technology. She is currently working on Open Demographics, a platform to standardize demographic data collection across open source communities.