Leda Dederich

Leda Dederich is an Internet developer, communications strategist, community organizer and artist. She has been producing Web sites for the non-profit sector since 1995 and is the former online director for AlterNet.org and the Independent Media Institute. A dedicated social change activist, recent projects include the United for Peace and Justice web site (http://www.unitedforpeace.org) and helping organize a mass shut-down of the San Francisco financial district the day after the U.S. started bombing Iraq. Other lives include a stint as a travel writer on the northern coast of France and co-directing an alternative theatre space in San Francisco. Leda holds an honors degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.