Shannon Smith is the founder of Café Noir Design, a boutique Montreal web design studio specializing in multilingual web development. She builds beautiful, functional websites that her clients can update themselves and that are easy for search engines to find. She supports things like making the web accessible for everyone, using open source software, helping organizations find greener more sustainable ways to operate through online technology and helping non-profits with online community organizing. She’s also a sewist and mother of four.