Judith Markowitz has been president of Lambda Literary Foundation since 2012. Prior to that, she served as the foundation's co-chair and secretary. She also was a reviewer of LGBT mysteries for the Lambda Book Report. She has written two books of non-fiction, including The Gay Detective Novel (2005, McFarland), and co-edited three more of which Where Humans Meet Machines (to appear, Springer) is the most recent. She has written over one hundred articles and has presented numerous talks and seminars on gender and language, computer-speech technology, dictionaries, and intelligent robots. She was technology editor of Speech Technology Magazine and served on the editorial board of the… International Journal of Speech Technology. Judith has a doctoral degree in linguistics and a post-doc in women's studies from Northwestern University.