Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is an American library technologist and writer known for her activism and work on the digital divide. She is the creator of librarian.net. She is the Vermont Chapter Councilor of the American Library Association, and was Director of Operations at the massive group blog MetaFilter from 2005 to 2014. She is now the owner of MetaFilter. West grew up in Massachusetts, where her father, computer engineer Tom West, worked for RCA and Data General. He was the key figure in the 1981 Tracy Kidder book The Soul of a New Machine. Her mother, Elizabeth (née Cohon), was the younger sister of actor Peter Coyote. She may be named after the author Jessamyn West (according to her parents, a "coincidence"), and as a child corresponded with her. More information...
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