Norene Leddy creates platforms to talk about technology, history, sex, art, and social justice. Projects include working with LGBTQI youth, sex workers, young women, and others to create shoes, garments, alarm systems, maps, DIY electronics kits, and other ways to explore high and low technology for protection and self-expression. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including Eyebeam (New York), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway), and Sarai Media Lab (India). She has been the recipient of numerous grants, awards and residencies including a Fulbright Fellowship, two Eyebeam residencies, and funding from NYSCA, Bronx Council for the Arts, and the Experimental Television Center. In 2011 she was nominated for a 2011 World Technology award. Norene earned her B.F.A. from Boston University in 1994 and a M.F.A. from Parsons The New School for Design in 2000, where she is now a Part-Time Assistant Professor.

In 2008, Norene started an ongoing art and curatorial collaboration with Liz Slagus. Together they have curated exhibitions for Cuchifritos Art + Project Space, City Without Walls, Kean University, and Gallery Aferro among others. In April 2014, they were awarded A Blade of Grass Socially-Engaged Art Fellowship for their current project, SexEd. The fellowship will support SexEd as it initiates an artist residency at the school-based health center and develops an arts-based sexual health curriculum at Washington Irving High School Campus in New York City.

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