US digital activism and hacking researcher who took up a position with McGill University in January as the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy. Gabriella trained as an anthropologist, and her first book, Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the Ethics of Hacking is forthcoming with Princeton University Press and she is working on a book on hacker group Anonymous, and digital activism. Gabriella was speaking at the Webstock conference in Wellington last week.