Susan Kennedy
Program Manager * she/her
Susan Kennedy is a librarian-by-training who wrangles projects big and small. Using participatory design and facilitation, she researches how we can make tech better, with recent projects in open source sustainability, funder advocacy, digital equity and inclusion, mobile surveillance, and platform transparency. She has also co-authored multiple articles and reports on subjects such as library broadband measurement and digital equity ecosystems. Susan has an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons University where she focused on ethical technology and social informatics.

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Join Us At MozFest 2023!
Superbloom will be hosting five sessions at the Mozilla Festival (Monday, March 20 - Friday, March 24 2023). If you’ll be there, we’d love to see you, meet you and get to know you. Come join us! Want to learn how to design a Tech Policy playbook? Are you interested in global tech transparency? Would you like to find out how shadow data affects you? Do you want to understand design’s impact on encrypted messaging? Are you looking for how to center human rights in usability? Join us and 1000s of others at MozFest 2023! This year’s event will be held in person in Amsterdam and online and the Superbloom team will be participating in five of the 360+ sessions. Intrigued? Read more in our post.

2022 Superbloom Highlight Reel
2022 was a year full of shifts, adaptations and evolutions for so many in our community. For us, we launched a new identity, welcomed four new team members and three new fiscally sponsored projects, and partnered with many new organizations and funders. And, for many on our team, this year presented several opportunities to meet for the first time in person. These markers of growth and evolution could not have happened without the continued support from our community.

What's Next For 'Simply Secure'? Part 3: How We Built Superbloom
Since 2020, we've been working with our community to rebrand Simply Secure. This post explores how we collaboratively built our new identity as Superbloom.

Building Blocks: Funding Digital Infrastructure From the Ground Up
We created Building Blocks to provide actionable resources for existing and potential funders to better support digital infrastructure projects and communities of practice.

Join us at RightsCon 2022
Would you like to hear how the move from deceptive design to trusted patterns is critical to our shared future? Would you like to learn more about how to make encrypted apps more inclusive and accessible? Do you need on the spot design and UX aid and advice to improve your tools? Simply Secure team members will be joining six sessions during Rightscon 2022: June 6-10. We’d love to see you, learn about your work, and collaborate. Come join us!
