In partnership with the FordFoundation, firefox Co-Founder MitchellBaker offers some advice to her younger self:
Advice to Her Younger Self features female leaders who are harnessing the power of technology to drive change—and want to help the next generation do the same. These experts are using tech to build better communities and a better world as active members of the new field called Public Interest Technology, and they’re opening up to us about what they’ve learned along the way. This series is produced in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
Such questions have propelled Baker since her undergraduate days at the University of California in Berkeley, where she focused on Asian Studies. One of a tiny group of students then interested in China, she wanted to understand exactly how a culture so unlike her own operated. What rules and conventions did people abide by to make sure that their society was functional, intact and enduring?
“That is the thing that caused me to become a lawyer,” she says. “I wasn’t actually sure I would ever work as a lawyer, but I certainly wanted to understand that.” This kind of private-public collaboration “allows a huge variety of activities,” she explains. “It allows a kind of confidence and trust, and allows both risk taking and new ideas, and it allows us to describe beforehand how we’re going to share risk and share benefit.
Baker realized early on that open source software offered yet another apparatus through which to answer the question that had long guided her: “Why do people voluntarily contribute to a shared workflow and a shared asset at the end of it, which is what open source is?” Baker didn’t really understand the importance of mentors when she was coming up, and simply barreled ahead professionally—but she urges younger people, particularly women, to cultivate beneficial relationships with more experienced colleagues. “If you’re lucky, some set of people actually go out of their way to really help you,” she says. “I think that’s harder for women. Research shows that people go out of their way to draw in people who are like them.
The persistence of sexism aside, Baker is now preoccupied by two pressing concerns. One is the shifting balance between the state and the individual in traditional democracies, such that rights of content makers are being privileged over the rights of the individual.
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