Shannon is co-founder and executive director of Public Lab, one of the originators and organizers of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware, previous Chair of the Citizen Science Association and current Chair of the (U.S. EPA) National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology. Shannon has spent over 15 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. Find her on Twitter @sdosemagen.