Xeni Jardin
Technology Commentator, Day to Day
Xeni Jardin can be heard on NPR's Day to Day, offering technology insights for listeners nationwide. Jardin is also a contributing writer for Wired Magazine, as well as a tech culture journalist and co-editor of the collaborative weblog BoingBoing.net, the award-winning "Directory of Wonderful Things."
She is a contributor and frequent "tech expert" guest in television, radio, and print venues including CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Popular Science, and MAKE Magazine.
Previously, she was Vice President of Rising Tide Studios (RTS), the publishing company behind Silicon Alley Reporter, Digital Coast Reporter, and other tech publications. There, she managed and hosted technology conferences featuring a wide array of figures from tech, entertainment, and political realms. Before joining RTS, she helped launch a technology company with former executives from Sun, Disney, and BEA.
An experienced manager of large-scale, business-critical intranet, extranet, and public-facing information networks, she was previously supervisor of enterprise web technology at Latham & Watkins, one of the world's largest law firms.
Based in Los Angeles, she travels extensively, and has studied over a dozen languages including Maohi (Tahitian), K'iche' and Kaqchikel Maya (Guatemala), Nahuatl (an indigenous language of Mexico), Mandarin Chinese, and Yoruba (Nigeria).
