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Adelaida loved her residency program so much she came very close to serving a second term- living in the library- during the summer of 2010.  Instead, she ended up as the 2010 summer Activism/Meme team intern at the [https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation] in San Francisco.  
Adelaida loved her residency program so much she came very close to serving a second term- living in the library- during the summer of 2010.  Instead, she ended up as the 2010 summer Activism/Meme team intern at the [https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation] in San Francisco.  


Adelaida studies [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gender_studies Gender]/[http://feministing.com/ Feminism] and [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Science_and_technology_studies STS] at [http://www.hampshire.edu/ Hampshire College] in Amherst, Massachusettes.  She is interested in studying [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Identity_%28social_science%29 identity] especially in relation to gender, sexuality and technology.  That is, how gender/sexuality/technology influence identity formation and what identity means for people a given social context.
Adelaida spent her undergrad at Hampshire College studying feminist theory and the Free Software Movement.  After completing college Adelaida returned to the Acetarium for the summer of 2012.  She moved to the Adjacetarium after three months and is working at Perkins School for the Blind.


Adelaida finally decided to ask people to call her by her middle name Adelaida, instead of her first name Sarah during her time as a RPF.
You may contact her on IRC nick Adelaida, server OFTC or at sarah adelaida mcintire at gmail dot com.
Guide to pronouncing Adelaida:
 
ă-duh-līd-ᵊ 
 
or
 
A as in Apple
Del as in Dell computers
Ai as in eye
Da as in duh

Latest revision as of 23:56, 22 January 2014

In the summer of 2009 Sarah Adelaida McIntire was a Residency Program Fellow (RPF). During her time as a RPF Adelaida served as the Free Software Foundation's first campaign intern. She spent a great deal of time editing the LibrePlanet wiki and fighting the evil forces of proprietary software one anti-DRM blog post at a time.

Adelaida loved her residency program so much she came very close to serving a second term- living in the library- during the summer of 2010. Instead, she ended up as the 2010 summer Activism/Meme team intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.

Adelaida spent her undergrad at Hampshire College studying feminist theory and the Free Software Movement. After completing college Adelaida returned to the Acetarium for the summer of 2012. She moved to the Adjacetarium after three months and is working at Perkins School for the Blind.

You may contact her on IRC nick Adelaida, server OFTC or at sarah adelaida mcintire at gmail dot com.