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Hal Abelson
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1973. In 1992, Abelson was designated as one of MIT's six inaugural MacVicar Faculty Fellows, in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education. Abelson was recipient in 1992 of the Bose Award (MIT's School of Engineering teaching award). Abelson is also the winner of the 1995 Taylor L. Booth Education Award given by IEEE Computer Society, cited for his continued contributions to the pedagogy and teaching of introductory computer science. He was also a founding director of the Free Software Foundation, and he serves as consultant to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He is co-director of the MIT-Microsoft Research Alliance in educational technology, and co-head of the MIT Council on Educational Technology. Website: swissnet.ai.mit.edu/users/hal
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James Boyle
James Boyle is a Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He writes on intellectual property, cyberspace, and social and legal theory. He is also a member of the academic Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center. Website: http://www.james-boyle.com
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Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Villanova University School of Law, where he teaches courses on intellectual property and the law of the Internet. Prior to joining the faculty in 2001, Professor Carroll was an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. His practice focused on intellectual property and Internet-related issues. Carroll received his A.B. with general honors from the University of Chicago and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Joyce Hens Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Before attending law school, Carroll worked as a journalist, a high school teacher in Zimbabwe, and a program officer for democracy and governance projects in Africa.
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Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred is editor and publisher of Eldritch Press, a free online book website at http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch. He is better known as lead plaintiff in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a suit to overturn the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. He is best known as father of triplet girls. A former Unix systems administrator, he is now disabled. As a computer hobbyist and early adopter since about 1980, he led computer user groups and wrote articles for various computer magazines. He worked 19 years at Massachusetts General Hospital before entering the computer field with Apollo Computer.
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Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim is a director and producer of both documentary and
dramatic film and television.
In 1999, he undertook an ambitious project documenting the challenging first year of several novice public school teachers. Two films resulted from this intensive immersion in the Los Angeles public school system: The First Year and Teach. Both films sought to address the tremendous need for qualified teachers in California and nationwide and to create awareness of the crisis -- as well as to inspire a new generation to become teachers.
Davis was an Executive Producer on Training Day and directed a feature film called Gossip, both for Warner Bros. His television directing credits include recently completed episodes of "The Shield," "Alias" and "24" as well as such critically acclaimed programs as "NYPD Blue," "ER," and "Party of Five." He is currently a Producer and Director of the upcoming HBO series "Deadwood."
Guggenheim's other documentary films include Norton Simon: A Man
and His Art, produced for permanent exhibition at the Norton
Simon Museum, and JFK and the Imprisoned Child, produced for
permanent exhibition at the John F. Kennedy Library. Guggenheim wrote
and edited many films with his father, four-time Academy Award winner
Charles Guggenheim. Davis graduated from Brown University in 1986.
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Joi Ito
Joichi Ito is the founder and CEO of Neoteny, a venture capital firm focused on personal communications and enabling technologies. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. In 1997 Time ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000 he was ranked among the "50 Stars of Asia" by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002.
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Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the School's Center for Internet and Society. In 2002, he was named one of 50 top innovators by Scientific American. Lessig earned a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in philosophy from Cambridge, and a J.D. from Yale.
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Eric Saltzman
A 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School, Eric F. Saltzman began his career as a criminal defense attorney in Seattle's and Boston's public defender offices. While teaching in Harvard Law School's Criminal Trial Advocacy program, Saltzman took up filmmaking at MIT's renowned Film Section and re-created trials as teaching tools. Moving from re-creation to verite, Saltzman introduced cameras into actual courtrooms with The Shooting of Big Man: Anatomy of a Criminal Case (a two hour special on ABC News in 1979, now available for Creative Commons license here). For CBS News, he produced and directed Miami: The Trial That Sparked the Riots, an investigation of a police homicide, its cover-up, and the ultimate trial of the police officers. These and other films have won Emmy and ABA Silver Gavel awards, among others. In the mid-1980s, Saltzman moved into the film business and began acquiring and licensing libraries of classic motion picture and television rights for emerging media such as cable, microwave and satellite transmission. In 2000-2002, Saltzman was executive director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is a member of the bars of Washington State and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and on the boards of not-for-profits in the area of race and poverty and the extension of Internet services to the human rights and legal services sectors. He lives with his wife and two boys in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Formerly the Executive Director of Creative Commons and a fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Van Houweling graduated in June 1998 from Harvard Law School, where she was Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Following graduation, Ms. Van Houweling was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and one of the first staff members at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). She then served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin, of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court.
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Technical Advisory Board
Barbara Fox
Barbara Fox is a Senior Software Architect, Cryptography and Digital Rights
Management for Microsoft Corporation.
She is also currently a Senior Fellow
at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
She serves on the National
Academies of Science Committee on "Authentication Technologies and Their
Implications for Privacy," the Technical Advisory Board of "The Creative
Commons," and the Board of Directors of the International Financial
Cryptography Association. Ms. Fox joined Microsoft in 1993 as Director of
Advanced Product Development and led the company's electronic commerce
technology development group. She has co-authored Internet standards in the
areas of Public Key Infrastructure and XML security. Her research at Harvard
focuses on digital copyright law, public policy, and privacy.
Immediately prior to Microsoft, Ms. Fox was President of SystemSoft America,
a Macintosh software development company in Palo Alto, California, and in
addition she was a consultant to Visa International. Between 1981 and 1984,
she was Engineering Development Manager for AppleTalk at Apple Computer.
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Don McGovern
Don McGovern is a Senior Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Prior to joining the Berkman Center, Don was the World Wide R&D Manager for Hewlett-Packard Operations (HPO). In this capacity he was responsible for managing the five software engineering laboratories of HPO. McGovern has been a board director of X/Open Company Limited, the Open Software Foundation (OSF), and the X Consortium. He is currently on the board development committee at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, MA, and is a head coach for the Beacon Hill community girl's softball league. Don is married, has three children, and resides in Boston, MA.
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Eric Miller
Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Initiative. Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and the co-founder and Associate Director of the The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. Eric holds a Research Scientist appointment at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.
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Ben Adida
Ben Adida is a PhD candidate at MIT in the Cryptography and Information
Security group. Ben began building web applications in 1995. He was a
founding member of ArsDigita, the OpenACS free community web software
project, and OpenForce. Ben was Creative Commons's first CTO and is
currently the Creative Commons representative to the W3C.
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Staff
Lawrence Lessig, CEO
full bio above
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John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons
Started: Oct 2004
John Wilbanks comes to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously, he founded and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical discovery. Before founding Incellico, John was the first Assistant Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and also spent time in Washington, DC, USA as a legislative aide to U.S. Representative Fortney ("Pete") Stark. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University.
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Mia Garlick, General Counsel
Started: Mar 2005
Mia joined Creative Commons after working in the Silicon Valley office of the law firm Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett on a range of shareholder and securities, antitrust and intellectual property litigation matters. Prior this, Mia completed a Masters of Law at Stanford, specializing in Law, Science, and Technology, to deepen her knowledge of IP and technology issues. Before her Stanford studies, Mia worked as an IP associate in the Sydney office of Gilbert & Tobin Lawyers.
Throughout her legal career, Mia has regularly acted on a pro bono basis for individual creators, giving them legal advice on IP and related issues. Mia has also written numerous articles on current issues in IP and technology law and presented frequently on these issues.
Mia received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales in 1998 and her Masters of Law from Stanford Law School in 2003. She is admitted to practice in New South Wales, Australia, and in California, US.
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Paula Le Dieu, Director of iCommons
Started: Apr 2005
Paula Le Dieu is the Director of iCommons. With more than 70 countries currently in the process of establishing local language and jurisdictional versions of Creative Commons licences and Science Commons projects, Paula's role is to ensure that the global creative and innovation domain grows and thrives.
Prior to joining Creative Commons, Paula worked for the BBC in the role of Project Director for the Creative Archive. This is a public service initiative to provide the fuel for digital creativity by opening up access to, and allowing for re-use of Britain's cultural heritage starting with the BBC's radio and television archive.
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Anne Marino, Development Director
Started: Aug 2005
Anne N. Marino is Creative Commons' new Development Director. Anne has worked in nonprofit development for over 15 years, as a staff member and more recently as a consultant, for the arts, healthcare and education. Her experience includes grant-writing, individual giving, board relations, special events and annual and capital campaigns. She is also a published writer and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Salon.com, Really Great Books, Public House as well as other publications, and her first novel was published in 2000 with W. W. Norton & Co. She taught creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension for several years and is presently an adjunct instructor at CA College of Art. Born and raised in NY, she has a BA in English Literature from SUNY College at Buffalo, NY and a MFA in Writing from Vermont College, VT.
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Natalie Walrond, CFO and Treasurer
Started: Aug 2005
Natalie Walrond joined Creative Commons in August 2005 as CFO and Treasurer
after a year long sabbatical from the investment industry. Natalie spent
four years in on the buy side following and managing publicly traded
investments in emerging economies and five years on the sell side as an
equity research analyst. She graduated from Trinity University in 1993 with
a degree in International Studies and International Business and from the
University of Chicago in 1995 with an MBA in Analytic Finance and Policy
Studies.
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Francesca Rodriquez, Project Manager
Started: Jul 2004
Francesca Rodriquez is a Project Manager at Creative Commons, formerly the Office Manager. Her favorite thing about working at Creative Commons is talking to the public and getting them psyched about CC and giving away free CC schwag. She has worked in museum education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of International Folk Art, The Georgia O?Keeffe Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago. Francesca holds a BA in Studio Art from the College of Santa Fe, and an MA from the University of Chicago in humanities and art history. She likes volunteering to help the Hispanic community, eating fish tacos, pilates, and listening to baseball on the radio with her partner.
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Jennifer Yip, Office Manager
Started: Oct 2005
Jennifer Yip comes to Creative Commons after having lived in San Francisco for two years while working at the Mechanics' Institute as Membership coordinator. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors' degree in Anthropology. After continuing to work for the University of Michigan Health System, she decided to leave the land of seven month coldness. She now enjoys the city's plethora of restaurants, shopping and live performance, drives along Highway 1, and snowboarding at the Lake Tahoe resorts. She also
volunteers at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
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Mike Linksvayer, CTO
Started: Apr 2003
Mike Linksvayer has ten years' experience as an enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant. He co-founded Bitzi and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Eric Steuer, Creative Director
Started: Nov 2005
As creative director, Eric is responsible for developing cultural and educational projects for Creative Commons. Eric was formerly an editor at Wired, where he helmed the magazine's music coverage. He is co-founder of indie music labels Rocketship, Weapon-Shaped, and Sneakmove; and records and performs as one-half of the hip-hop duo Meanest Man Contest.
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Alex Roberts, Graphic Designer
Started: Nov 2005
Alex Roberts is the graphic designer for Creative Commons, in charge of graphics on the web and in print. He graduated from the Art Institute of California — San Francisco, and brings with him many years of experience in the open source, and design fields. Originally from England, he now lives in San Francisco, enjoying photography and pretending to develop open source software.
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Diane Cabell, Corporate Counsel
Started: 2001
Diane Cabell, the Secretary and Corporate Counsel for Creative Commons, was the founder of the Clinical Program in Cyberlaw at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. She is a co-director of Chlling Effects and sits on the advisory boards of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at University of Ottawa and the Center for Law and Innovation at the University of Maine School of Law.
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Elaine Adolfo, Assistant
Started: Jul 2004
Elaine Adolfo is the assistant for Lawrence Lessig and Creative Commons. After graduating from UC Berkeley
with a degree in English Literature, she worked as a web producer for CMP, Beatnik, Macromedia and Apple. She's written music and feature stories for college papers and LA Weekly. She also won an award from Rolling Stone magazine for a story she wrote on the horrors of finding dates on the Internet. She has a really cool dog named Mr. Bojangles.
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Herkko Hietanen, Research Associate
Started: Apr 2005
Herkko Hietanen LL.M. (Helsinki) is a researcher at Helsinki
Institute for Information Technology and at Lappeenranta University of
Technology where he teaches Information and Technology law.
Before starting as a visiting scholar at University of California Berkeley he worked as leader of the Finnish Creative Commons. Herkko has written several papers on open content and Creative Commons and he is especially interested of the business models that open content enables. Herkko is looking to finish his PhD-thesis in economics in couple of years. Herkko helped to start one of the biggest cyber right organizations Electronic Frontier Finland where he is member of the board. Herkko's law firm Turre Legal has specialized to representing free and open source developers and users.
Herkko can also be seen on his webpage and his Copyfraud blog
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Nathan Yergler, Software Engineer
Started: Jun 2004
Nathan Yergler (yergler.net) is a software engineer for the Creative Commons. He joins Creative Commons from a faculty position at Canterbury School, where he pioneered the use of Python in their Computer Science courses, developing both introductory and advanced elective curricula. A frequent presenter at PyCon, the Python community conference, Nathan enjoys exploring new problem domains and developing new skills to meet specific challenges. He lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana (by choice) and will receive a B.S. in Computer Science from IPFW in May, 2006.
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Jon Phillips, Open Source Developer
Started: Sep 2005
Jon Phillips is an open source developer, artist and scholar with 12+ years of experience building communities and working within computing culture. He is currently developing the Open Source project the Open Clip Art Library, works for Creative Commons and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute in the Design+Technology department.
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Berlin Office
Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck, Creative Commons International Executive Director
Started: Apr 2003
Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck studied law at Heidelberg University,
where she developed a particualar interest in the phenomenon of the
Knowledge Society. In 1994 she organized a 3-day-symposium with 600
participants for the "Heidelberger Club" entitled "Challenges of the
Information Society." When she continued her Law Studies at Humboldt University
in Berlin, she became Research Assistant to Professor Tomuschat, Chair
of the International Law Department. Upon graduation in 1998 she
obtained a scholarship from the Max Planck Institute
in Munich to write a doctorate on "Copyright Limitations in the Digital
Age." This allowed her to combine her passion for the Arts with her
experience in International Law and her interest in the Information
Society. In May of 2002, she was part of a team that helped the
Ministry of Justice implement the European InfoSoc Directive into German Law. Christiane has held various teaching assignments and has published widely on copyright law.
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Eva Lutterbuese, Creative Commons International Executive Assistant
Started: Sept 2005
Eva is the Executive Assistant to Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck and Creative Commons International.
After a 3-year apprenticeship at a German automotive supplier she
started to work as an Assistant at the CDU party headquarter in Bonn.
She also worked several years for a member of the German parliament.
Her last position was the Executive Assistance to the President of a
governmental agency, which tries to attract foreign investors to
eastern Germany. She has a lot of experience in administration, data
management and communication. Eva also holds a teaching certificate for
office administration and time management.
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Tessi Rieber, Intern
Started: Apr 2005
Tessi Rieber joined the Berlin office in April 2 2005 as a student
intern. After studying in Freiburg, Cologne and Paris, Tessi is now a
student of History at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
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Interns/Volunteers
Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons International Evangelist
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is the UK Liason for Creative Commons, working with institutional British rightsholders on open content licensing projects. He is an award-winning science fiction writer, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe and A Place So Foreign and Eight More. He is a Contributing Writer to Wired Magazine and is the co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. Born and raised in Toronto, he now lives in London, England.
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Aaron Swartz, Volunteer Metadata Advisor
Aaron Swartz is a teenage writer, programmer, and hacker. As a Semantic Web developer, he's a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group and a co-author of RSS 1.0. His latest project is the Plesh, a decentralized network that will provide the platform for the next generation of network applications.
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Dana Powers, intern
Dana is originally from Music City, USA,
where he attended Vanderbilt
University and studied Computer Engineering, Math, and Music. A
former free software hacker, Dana is now a rising second year law
student at Stanford Law
School studying Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, and Legal
Theory. Dana is currently listening to Brad Sucks and
enjoying the glorious caffeination of the office hands-free coffee maker.
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Grace Armstrong, Intern
Originally from Iowa, Grace is now a senior at Middlebury College in Vermont, where she created her own major to study information politics and economics. During her junior year abroad at the University of Buenos Aires, she became interested in the relationship between copyright and political, economic, and social development in MERCOSUR. She is currently researching and writing her undergraduate thesis on copyright trends in Brazil and Argentina, and in her spare time she enjoys traveling (especially in Latin America), reading, and teaching snowboarding.
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Staff Alumni
Fred Benenson, Intern
Fred Benenson graduated in May of 2005 from New York University's
College of Arts and Science with a major in Philosophy and a minor in
Computer Science. In the 2004-5 school year he founded the official
NYU chapter of the national student organization FreeCulture.org. He has worked
professionally as a graphic designer, web programmer, and IT
technician. In his free time he likes to take pictures for his photoblog
f as in photoblog.com,
solve the Rubik's cube, and listen to
music.
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Glenn Otis Brown, Executive Director
Glenn Otis Brown was Executive Director of Creative Commons from Summer 2002 until spring 2005. Before that, he served as Assistant Director. Glenn is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig.
Before coming to Creative Commons, Glenn clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal, among other cases. Glenn has also worked stints at The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau, reporting on general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at Digital Age, a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant producer for a season.
Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1996, summa) and Harvard Law School (JD, 2000, magna). In college, Glenn was awarded a national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study towards a career in public service. At Harvard, Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized Signal or Noise?, a digital music conference and concert, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Parijat Desai, Editor
Parijat Desai is a choreographer and editor. She has a B.A. in anthropology from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in choreography from UCLA. Her choreography draws on Indian classical and modern/postmodern dance, as well as movement traditions like yoga. Venues that have presented her work include the J. Paul Getty Center, P.S. 122, and the Bangalore Biennial; and she has received support from the Durfee Foundation, California Arts Council, and Arts International. As an editor, she has worked with scholarly writing, nonprofit publications, Web content, and PR/marketing text. She will be based in New York as of this May.
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Will Frank, Intern
Will Frank is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania, where he majors in Computer Science, minors in the History and Sociology of Science, and lives in the STWing residential program. He is a geek in the modern sense and his hobbies include fencing and reading. He's planning to go on to law school after graduation unless his family and friends can talk him out of it.
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James Grimmelmann
James Grimmelmann is a student at Yale Law
School, where he works with the Information Society Project
and edits LawMeme, Yale's law and
technology weblog. He is a graduate of Harvard College, an occasional
programmer, and a former intern with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His personal
blog is the Laboratorium.
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Matthew Haughey, Creative Director
Started: Mar 2002
Equal parts designer and programmer, Matt has been building web interfaces and applications for the past ten years. He runs the popular community site MetaFilter, writes daily on his weblog, takes daily photos, and keeps track of it all on his personal site. His previous work includes projects involving universities, non-profit groups, startups, and media companies and his work has appeared in numerous major media outlets. He has helped author three books on the subjects of usability, web design, and weblogs. He holds a M.S. in Environmental Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside.
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Brian Heung, Intern
Brian Heung is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley currently working on a degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Hercules, California. He is an amateur musician and is currently playing the tuba in the University of California Marching Band. In the Cal Band, he also served on the computer committee. Previously he worked as a student researcher at Innovative Mobility Research and as a lifeguard and swim instructor. Brian is hoping to find exciting foods to try while in San Francisco.
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Roland Honekamp, Creative Commons International
Roland Honekamp is a German internet entrepreneur who served for several
years as co-founder and director of Zooplus AG, a successful start-up
company. Previously he worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Roland is a graduate of the University of Oxford, England, and holds a
postgraduate degree from the London School of Economics.
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Ryan Junell, Media Designer
Ryan Junell is the San Francisco-based media designer responsible for the Creative Commons logo and the two flash animations. Ryan graduated from the Plan 2 Honors program at the University of Texas in 1996. Always a student of media, Ryan has worked professionally in radio, television, film, newsprint, and (for the past 8 years) on the internet. He helped found and organize the WEBZINE event series. These annual gatherings (1998/SF, 1999/SF, 2000/SF, 2001/NYC) celebrated independent online media. He is one fourth of the experimental electronic audio/video improvisation group Sagan. He has directed several music videos for independent artists such as Spoon, The Natural History, The Soft Pink Truth, and Gravy Train!!!!. In 1999, he starred in a feature film called Radio Free Steve. More can be learned about him at his personal website Texasmonkey.com.
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Leena Kamat, Intern
Leena graduated from UC Berkeley in 2002, having double-majored in
Business Administration and South Asian Studies. This year, she will
be entering her third year at UC Davis School of Law, where she is
active in several student groups, including Intellectual Property &
Social Justice. A Bay Area native and avid
Bollywood fan, her interests also include critical race feminism,
cheese, and laughing yoga.
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Dave Kim
Dave is a student at Georgetown University Law Center. He was born in Seoul, South Korea, grew up in Long Island, NY, and earned his B.A. in economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Upon graduation, he was employed in the entrepreneurial venture and Garage.com company, Struxicon, Inc. in Irvine, California. In the next chapter of his life, Dave studied film and participated in small digital and film productions in Los Angeles and Paris, prior to entering law school. Dave's interests include cheap eats, film, photography, golf, skiing, and his rock band.
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Laura Lynch, Intern
After graduating from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Writing, and a minor in Biology, Laura began working with Professor Lessig and Creative Commons at Stanford Law School. Inspired by her work experiences at Stanford, she began studying at the University of San Francisco School of Law in the Fall of 2004. During her first year of law school, she was a technical editor for the Journal of Law and Social Challenges, a member of the Women?s Law Association, Public Interest Law Foundation and IP-Cyberlaw Association, and played on the law school intramural volleyball team ? ?Motion to Spike?. Next year, Laura looks forward to sitting on the Board of Directors for the Women?s Law Association, working as a staff editor for the USF Intellectual Property Journal and Case Counselor in the USF Moot Court Program.
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Benjamin O'Neil, Intern
Ben O'Neil joins Creative Commons from Washington, D.C. where he just completed his first year at Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating in 2000 from the University of Virginia with a degree in History, Ben spent a year working at the District Attorney's Office in Manhattan. He also coached a high school lacrosse team while in New York City. Ben hopes to bring the message of Creative Commons with him back to Georgetown this fall and get CC on copyright syllabi at the Law Center.
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Neeru Paharia, Executive Director
Started: Aug 2002 Neeru Paharia is Executive Director of Creative Commons. Neeru graduated
from the University of California at Davis in 1997 and received a Master
of Science in Public Policy and Management with a concentration in
Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. Prior to
graduate school, Neeru spent a year in the Coro Fellowship Program, a
leadership program in public affairs. Neeru comes to Creative Commons
from McKinsey and Company, where she worked as an Associate Consultant.
Neeru is also a filmmaker, illustrator, and blues guitar player. She has
shown her work in various film festivals and publications.
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Dana Powers, intern
Dana is originally from Music City, USA,
where he attended Vanderbilt
University and studied Computer Engineering, Math, and Music. A
former free software hacker, Dana is now a rising second year law
student at Stanford Law
School studying Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, and Legal
Theory. Dana is currently listening to Brad Sucks and
enjoying the glorious caffeination of the office hands-free coffee maker.
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Lisa Rein, Technical Architect
Lisa Rein is an XML educator and a freelance journalist with extensive publication credits both on-line and off-line including: Wired News, CNET, XML.com, Web Techniques and Web Review. Lisa is a Contributing Editor and Resource Guide Editor for XML.com, the Editor of O'Reilly's P2P Directory at OpenP2P.com and the XML New Products Editor for the IEEE's Internet Computing Magazine. She teaches XML for the University of California at Berkeley Extension Online, runs her own educational website, has her own personal weblog and is a singer/musician/songwriter with her own music website.
Lisa also had the honor of being the "Text Editor and Mac Maven" for
Timothy Leary's last published work and only graphic novel, Surfing the Conscious Nets (Last Gasp 1995).
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Mark Resch, CEO of Creative Commons
Mark Resch is deeply interested in the mutual interaction of society, business, and technology. He is Chairman and co-founder of interactive system maker Onomy Labs, Inc. Resch was President and CEO of CommerceNet, a nonprofit industry consortium that addressed critical enablers of Internet commerce. At Xerox Corporation, Resch developed new Internet business opportunities and managed xerox.com worldwide. Resch was co-founder and Vice President of Operations at Luna Imaging Inc., a startup that created large interactive photography databases, funded by the Getty Trust and Eastman Kodak. Resch was Vice President and Director of Computer Imaging at CRSS Architects, Inc. As Director of Graphic Arts at Computer Curriculum Corporation, Resch supported the creation of more than 3,000 hours of interactive courseware for students at risk. Resch was assistant professor of Computer Art in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and drafted its MFA degree. Resch served as co-chair for the Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphic and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) in 1993, and has served on numerous non-profit boards.
Mr. Resch is originally from Chicago, Illinois, and holds a BA in History from Grinnell College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Derek Slater, Intern
During Summer '03, Derek Slater is writing features and developing marketing materials. A junior at Harvard College, Derek is an affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society working on the Digital Media Project. He also writes for the Harvard Political Review and blogs at A Copyfighter's Musings.
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