Coraline Ada Ehmke is an internationally recognized tech ethicist, activist, and software engineer. For more than a decade, she has worked on practical approaches to promoting the values of diversity, equity, and justice in the technology industry. As a highly sought-after speaker, she has delivered keynotes at technology conferences on five continents.
She is best known as the creator of Contributor Covenant, the first and most widely-adopted code of conduct for open source communities. She was recognized for her contributions to open source with a Ruby Hero Award in 2016. In 2018 she addressed the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights on the topic of human rights abuses by tech companies. In 2019, she authored the Hippocratic License, an innovative ethical source license tied to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Coraline is profiled on Wikipedia, where she is recognized as a pioneer among women in computing history. Her work has been featured by media outlets including CNN, the BBC, WIRED, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Register, The Mary Sue, Buzzfeed, Vice, The Verge, ZDNet, The Daily Beast, and Business Insider.