nationality known_for residence article_title education name occupation
american burningbird , o'reilly media st. louis , missouri shelley powers
 b.s. , central washington university in industrial psychology , b.a. in computer science shelley powers author , web developer
shelley powers

shelley powers is an american author , web developer and technology architect .
she works with and writes about open source , lamp technologies and web service development , css/xhtml design , web graphics and the use of these technologies in the semantic web .
for her work as an author and her long-running tech weblog burningbird , powers was called `` one of the more visible women in technology '' by virginia debolt of blogher in 2008 .
she has been an advocate for women in computing .
she told the blogher interviewer , `` women are making great strides in every field of science and technology , except computers and engineering .
our numbers are decreasing every year -- a fact that should alarm not only women , but men . ''
