Amelia Greenhall
{{short description|American feminist, technology industry blogger, activist, former computer UX/UI designer}}
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| birth_name = Amelia Cousins
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| nationality = American
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| occupation = Executive Director of Double Union
| education = Vanderbilt University
University of Washington (MS)
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| spouse = Adam Greenhall
| known_for = Feminist tech blogging
| notable_works = Model View Culture, Open Review Quarterly
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Amelia Cousins Greenhall is an American feminist 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 in San Francisco, with Valerie Aurora, and is a Quantified Self enthusiast.{{cite web|last1=Greenfield|first1=Rebecca|title=Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3031944/most-creative-people/why-silicon-valley-needs-the-coder-grrrls-of-double-union-the-feminist-|website=Fast Company|access-date=June 26, 2015|date=July 14, 2014}}{{cite news| author =Glenn Fleishman| title =New Disruptors 56: Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall| newspaper =BoingBoing| date = January 2, 2014| url =http://boingboing.net/2014/01/02/new-disruptors-56-double-union.html| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{cite news| author =Rose Eveleth| author-link =Rose Eveleth|title =How Self-Tracking Apps Exclude Women| newspaper =The Atlantic| date =December 15, 2014| url =https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/how-self-tracking-apps-exclude-women/383673/| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{cite news| author = Alexia Tsotsis| title =What (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek| quote =We're making progress, whether it's women like Adi Tartako who grew Houzz to a multi-billion dollar business, Tracy Chou who has moved up the engineering ranks of some of the Valley's best companies, Gina Bianchini who isn't afraid of failure or women like Amelia Greenhall and Shanley Kane, the co-founders of Model View Culture, who rightly decided there needed to be a whole publication dedicated to the systematic marginalization of certain groups in tech.| newspaper =TechCrunch| date = January 29, 2015| url =https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/29/ethics-in-cursor-molestation-journalism/| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{cite news| author =Lucy Prebble| title =Video games must change. Right now they are too white and too male| quote= One of those is Shanley Kane, who along with Amelia Greenhall, left the mainstream tech industry last year to found Model View Culture, a media company providing writing about technology, culture and diversity with a site as crisp and clean as the prose it contains.| newspaper =The Guardian| date =March 11, 2014| url =https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/11/video-games-too-white-too-male-women-ethnic-diversity
| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{cite news| author =Claire Cain Miller| title =Technology's Man Problem
| quote = Amelia Greenhall and Shanley Kane, technologists and writers, started Model View Culture, a publication about technology, culture and diversity, in which Ms. Kane recently wrote about how myths of tech culture work to "exclude and marginalize minorities."| newspaper =The New York Times| date = April 5, 2014| url =https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{cite news| author =Monica Guzman| title =Analyze this: Quantified Self is not as geeky as you think| newspaper =The Seattle Times blog| date = March 2, 2013| url =http://blogs.seattletimes.com/monica-guzman/2013/03/02/analyze-this-quantified-self-is-not-as-geeky-as-you-think/
| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{cite news| author =Alissa Quart| title =Body of evidence| quote =Greenhall, 26, a programmer at a startup in San Francisco who runs the Quantified Self Meetup group there, calls QS a "mindfulness practice"; For seven years, Greenhall has tracked her weight every day and then calculated a 10-day running average.| newspaper =Irish Examiner
| date =July 13, 2013| url =http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/body-of-evidence-236722.html| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{cite magazine | author =Sonya Mann| title =The High Style Standards For Women In Tech |magazine=Bustle| date =February 17, 2015| url =http://www.bustle.com/articles/64770-what-women-in-technology-wear-to-compete-with-their-male-colleagues-or-the-implication-of| access-date =February 20, 2015}}{{Excessive citations inline|date=June 2021}} 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 designer, user interface designer and data scientist in Seattle.{{cite news
| author = Rebecca Greenfield| title =MODEL VIEW CULTURE, A NEW TECH PUBLICATION THE INTERNET ACTUALLY NEEDS
| newspaper =Fast Company| date = January 16, 2014| url =http://www.fastcompany.com/3024929/innovation-agents/model-view-culture-a-new-tech-publication-the-internet-actually-needs| access-date =February 20, 2015}} She left Model View Culture in May 2014.
Born in Hawaii and raised in Arizona, Greenhall is a 2009 studio art and electrical engineering graduate of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. She went on to earn a master's degree in public health at the University of Washington.{{cite web|url=http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/resume|title=Amelia Greenhall|work=ameliagreenhall.com|access-date=March 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315140312/http://ameliagreenhall.com/resume|archive-date=March 15, 2016}}
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