In March 2012, she and her group were active critics of working conditions at Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn.

[3][4] Taren Kate Stinebrickner-Kauffman[5] was born on 14 November 1981 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, as the daughter of DePauw University professors, former Georgetown basketball player Bruce Stinebrickner and author Kelsey Kauffman, the granddaughter of Rear Admiral Draper Kauffman and great-granddaughter of Vice Admiral James L.

[7] She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in mathematics from Duke University in 2004.

[9][10] She founded SumOfUs in 2011, serving as Executive Director and growing the organisation to 5 million members worldwide.

[14] In 2011, Swartz was prosecuted by U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), and, facing the risk of up to 35 years imprisonment and $1 million in fines if he exercised his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial and was convicted, he died by suicide in 2013.