About
Shannon is an environmental health advocate, community science champion and enthusiastic about the potential for open systems and technology to support the creation of a more just and equitable future.
Whether teaching freshwater benthic sampling, working with fenceline communities on environmental monitoring or teaching the complex art of kayaking in weedy water, Shannon is focused on building and growing collaborative spaces.
She has spent the last 20 years working with environment and public health groups to address declining freshwater resources, coastal land loss and building monitoring programs with communities living adjacent to industrial facilities. Shannon is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow working on the Open Environmental Data Project, co-founder of Public Lab and Executive Director from 2010-20, and co-founder of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware. She is a member of the National Parks Conservation Association Board of Trustees, a board member of both Code for Science and Society and the Open Science Hardware Foundation, editorial board member of the Journal of Open Hardware, member of the Union of Concerned Scientists Science Advocacy working group, and previous Chair of both the U.S. EPA National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology and the Citizen Science Association. She is an Ashoka Fellow, a senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and a previous Fellow of Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Rita Allen Foundation Civic Science program, and Loyola University Environmental Communications Institute.