She is co-chair of Open Source Bridge, a Portland conference dedicated to open source developers. She is User Group Liaison for the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. She currently leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and helps operate a programming group, Code-n-Splode, whose goal is to get more women involved in open source development. In her spare time, she collects eggs from her chickens, gardens and occasionally mixes drinks for her local Perl Mongers group.