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We are excited to announce that our second keynote presenter for SeaGL 2019 is Abigail Cabunoc Mayes!

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes ([@abbycabs](https://twitter.com/abbycabs)) is the Working Open Practice Lead at the Mozilla Foundation. Abby mobilizes leaders in the internet health movement through mentorship and training on open practices and open source. Before this, she was Lead Developer of the Mozilla Science Lab, transforming science on the web.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Abby worked as a bioinformatics software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and at Michigan State University where she applied open source and to research problems. With a background in open source and community organizing, she is fueling a culture of openness in research and innovation.

Named in "100 awesome women in open source" by source{d}. Editor Emeritus, the Journal of Open Source Software.
