She has been the lead developer on major online products for Oxford University Press, O'Reilly Media and other publishers. Currently she is an independent consultant and the founder of Threepress, an open-source project developing ebook applications. In March of 2007, O'Reilly published her book "Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python" and she writes frequently for several blogs related to publishing and technology. She is on the advisory board for the Web 2.0 Expo NYC 2008 and O'Reilly Tools of Change 2009 conferences. She received a BA and MA in psychology from Boston University and programs primarily in Python, Java, and XML-related tools such as XSLT and XQuery. Peter Brantley