Kristen Stubbs is a queer/pansexual roboticist who's more interested in people than in technology. Kristen earned her Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. She runs the sex-positive startup Passionate Produce (passionateproduce.com), blogs about her own experiences with sexuality and pleasure (toymakerproject.com), and organizes a sex/kink-positive maker meetup group (teasecraft.com). Kristen's light-up dildo prototype "The Hammer" was awarded a Golden Kleene at Arse Elektronika 2012 and has been named the #1 Geekiest Sex Toy by Cracked.com.