Limor Fried is Ladyada of Adafruit Industries.
Limor is a force in the Maker community, she started Adafruit a few years ago and it has grown tremendously. She gets all sorts of press because she is smart, entrepreneurial, and she is blazing new ground for girls everywhere.
She is the driving force behind the Open Kinect project, has been on the cover of Wired Magazine, and has also been called The Most Influential Woman In Technology 2011 from FastCompany
Wikipedia
Ladyada.net
Wired article from 08/11
Adafruit Industries