Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist and author of the books How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Inhabiting the Negative Space, and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. Her other writing has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, and Paris Review, and her visual work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Odell has been an artist in residence at Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department. Between 2013 and 2021, she taught studio art at Stanford University.