marg's page I am not an angry girl but it seems like I've got everyone fooled every time I say something they find hard to hear they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear -- Ani DiFranco, "Not a Pretty Girl"

Columbia University

Now I am an IBEW Local 3 elevator mechanic for Nouveau Elevator Industries. I run the job at the MetLife Building, taking care of 70 elevators and 14 escalators.

I also do local and national advocacy for tradeswomen and other women in non-traditional occupations. I was a grant administrator at Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) which runs training programs for women to enter the high-paying, high-skilled blue-blue collar trades, e.g., as carpenters, plumbers, and electricians. I'm also on the board of Tradeswomen Now and Tomorrow (TNT), a national coalition of tradeswomen's advocates and organizations.

I'm the founder and coordinator of The Condega Homemakers Project, which sent women's brigades to Nicaragua to help rebuild houses destroyed by Hurricane Mitch.

I hold a Bachelor's degree in women's and gender studies as well as Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science -- it's nice to feel balanced.

I am the creator of The Ani DiFranco Home Page -- also the first!

I used to be one of the co-managers of the Postcrypt Coffeehouse, the first electronic coffeehouse!

Here's my PGP public key.