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Current Role(s): 
Leadership Team
Drupal Diversity & Inclusion
Developer Outreach Manager
Pantheon
IRC: 
sparklingrobots

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
Triangle Park Creative, Electric Citizen, Smilodon Creative, Universal Music Group
Industries Worked In: 
Arts, Nonprofit, Legal, Civic, Publishing, Music, Entertainment

Personal Info

Pronouns: 
she/they
Primary language: 
English
Other languages: 
English
Japanese
Mongolian
Spanish

On Drupal.org for 12 years 1 month

Over 10 edits to documentation

Bio: 

I am Director of Developer Relations at Automattic, working to make Gutenberg the best way to create content on the web. Formerly at Pantheon, Universal Music Group, and more.

Community Roles:
* I am on the leadership team for Drupal Diversity & Inclusion, and am the founder & initiative lead for the Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Contrib Team. Contrib Team focuses on increasing contributions to the Drupal project from under-represented individuals, using year-round mentorship, new recruiting methods, and advocacy for better OSS contribution practices.
* I am on the Core Mentoring team

From 2019-2021, I served as lead of Drupal Diversity & Inclusion.

I talked about Drupal Diversity & Inclusion on the DrupalEasy Podcast: https://www.drupaleasy.com/podcast/2018/07/drupaleasy-podcast-211-tara-k...

Dries recently wrote about my work with Drupal Diversity and Inclusion's Contribution Team: https://dri.es/increasing-drupal-contributions-from-underrepresented-groups

I was featured on Acquia's Women of the Drupal Community blog series: https://www.acquia.com/blog/women-drupal-community-sparklingrobots

Outside the drupalverse, I write poetry, ride my bike and play board games.

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Drupal Contributions: 

I started the Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Contribution Team--an effort to increase code-based contributions from under-represented groups to the Drupal project.

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Areas of Expertise: 
Developer
Support
Site Architect
designer
Site builder
Themer
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Baltimore 2017
DrupalCon Nashville 2018
Drupal Europe 2018
DrupalCon Seattle 2019
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019
DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020 (was planning to attend)
DrupalCon Global 2020
DrupalCon Europe 2020
DrupalCon North America 2021

Credited on 154 fixed issues

Projects maintained

Gold Drupal Certified Partner
Drupal Association #DrupalCares Supporter

11 people list sparklingrobots as a mentor

I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I contributed Drupal documentation
I helped organize DrupalCon
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on Slack
I help mentor new contributors