This is a page of work that I did before transition. Some people go back through all the references to themselves and try to get them changed from their deadname to their new name, but I decided that would be more work than I really cared to put into my name change. I'm not secretive about being trans, so for me I don't see any professional down side in allowing people to know my previous name, what I looked like, and what I sounded like. I'd rather just share that information then have someone think that they are being clever by digging it up. In addition, while it's not impossible to get my name changed on written work I've done in the past, it's not like I can undo all the times I've said on video, "Hello! I'm Lisha Sterling and..." 

 

Keynote Address

The Cost of Freedom (Keynote Address at SeaGL 2019)
https://seagl.org/archive/2019/the-cost-of-freedom

 

Information Security

 

Open Source Technologies for Low Resource Environments

 

Standing Rock

I spent 6 months at the Water Protector camps at the Standing Rock Lakota Reservation in 2016 and 2017. I wrote and spoke about what was happening there, my experiences there, and the technical work that my team and I did there. 

 

Cooperatives

 

Beyond Categories

Some of the things that I have done don't fit into neat categories. 

 

More links coming soon...