So you want something more in-depth than “a law librarian working in legal technology?” Okay, we can do that.
This is how I introduce myself in presentations:
Most recently my career has been in legal tech start ups doing analysis of legal tech products and ecosystems.
I have worked in and for academic law libraries, a non-profit consortium that provided open educational tech tools, a professional organization (okay, it was the ABA) and I did a fellowship at Harvard (which I only bring up to impress the type of people that are impressed by that sort of thing.)
Speaking of impressing people, I’ve won a lot of awards and honors, including being in the inaugural class of the Fastcase 50, was named an ABA Legal Rebel, gotten a “le Hackie” and was awarded a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant among other things.
I’m kind of a big deal.
Actually, I really don’t take myself that seriously at all but if you can’t gas yourself up on your own website, when can you?
I think I don’t take myself very seriously because I take my work and issues around it so seriously and I don’t have the bandwidth to worry about my own status. My career path may seem a little weird, but it makes sense to me – I’ve always been working towards making the legal ecosystem more equitable and functional through works based in community action, the use of open content and technology, and education. Sometimes I’ve tried to boil the ocean and sometimes I concentrated on a very discrete section and function. Lots of wins, lots of losses, through it all I’ve kept learning and improving. The minute I stop growing and having fun is when I quit.
Standard disclaimer: all my online written works under my personal brand are my own thing and shouldn’t reflect on my employer.
Other than that, I live in middle of America and am – generally speaking – not super exciting. But I’m also deeply punk rock. I contain multitudes. You’ll see.
If you want to be in touch you can email me at sarah (dot) glassmeyer (at) gmail (dot) com. I’m always down to give a public talk (especially to impressionable young minds) or if you just want a gut check on an idea, I’m happy to chat.