Abby founded and led Mozilla Open Leaders which mentored over 600 open projects, a thought leader in open source as a keynoter and speaker at major international events such as OSCON, StrangeLoop, SciPy and EuroSciPy. She built various open science prototypes as lead developer for Mozilla Science and lead developer for WormBase. She is a current and past member of a variety of committees and editorial boards including the Journal of Open Source Software, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Awards, featured in 100 Awesome Women in Open Source, GitHub's State of the Octoverse, and Faces of Open Source.