Dr. Emily Lovell is the Associate Director of the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Computer Science and Engineering department, supporting new contributors through research, teaching, and mentorship. Emily previously served on faculty at Berea College, where she developed and taught courses on open source contribution and computational craft. She has also co-taught physical computing workshops at a variety of venues domestically and abroad, including outreach programs, design schools, museums, and festivals. Motivated by a desire to make e-textiles more accessible, Emily designed a low-cost, pre-programmed sewable microcontroller known as the LilyTiny – which is open source and has been commercially available as part of the LilyPad Arduino product line for over ten years now. She has a S.M. in Media Arts & Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. Emily lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her rescue pup, Daphne.