Sponsor the Women Shaping the Web

Women contribute to making the web and your favourite open source tools function, yet we're under-represented and under-funded. This International Women’s Day, consider directly sponsoring women shaping the future of the web. I’m part of the network of women contributing to web standards and open source without corporate funding, and I want to take this post to highlight some of my colleagues. Sponsorship helps sustain the crucial and important work we contribute and ensures our impact continues.

Heather Flanagan

Heather is a key contributor to digital identity standards. Participating in a number of Standards bodies, she co-chairs multiple groups including the W3C Federated Identity Working Group and IETF Secure Patterns for Internet Credentials (SPICE) Working Group. You can learn more about Heather’s work on her website. Sponsor Heather

Miriam Suzanne

Miriam has been contributing to the open web tools and standards since 2009, with a particular focus on CSS and related web platform features at the W3C. Some of which include Popover & Anchor Positioning polyfills, and CSS specifications for functions, mixins, and responsive typography. Miriam is also co-founder at Odd Bird, have a look at more of their work. Sponsor Miriam

Emelia Smith

Emelia works on making the Fediverse safer by improving moderation tooling and trust and safety. She has made contributions to Mastodon and is an advisor to the non-profit Independent Federated Trust and Safety (IFTAS). You can learn more about Emelia’s work on her website. Sponsor Emelia

Lola Odelola

I am working on making the web more accessible for web users and standards more accessible to web developers and creators. I’m currently appointed to the W3C Technical Architecture Group where I work with my colleagues to provide technical guidance to specification authors and the wider web community. You can read more of my work on my blog. Sponsor Lola