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Daniel Takamori (pono) - 22 months ago 2022-06-22 19:54:57
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 Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.  Kuhn's
 non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF.  As FSF's
 Executive Director from 2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn
 led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL enforcement</a>,
 launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its Associate Member
 program</a>, and invented
 the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>.  Kuhn
 began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first
 staff person in 2011.  Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science
 from <a href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola
 University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from
 the <a href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of
 Cincinnati</a>.  <a href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's
 Master's thesis</a> discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free
 Software programming languages.  Kuhn received
 the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
 Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
 copyleft licensing.  Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a
 blog</a> and co-hosts
 the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in
 Freedom</cite></a>.</p>
 <h2 id="karen">Karen M. Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
 <p>Karen M. Sandler is the executive director of Conservancy. Karen is known
 as a cyborg lawyer for her advocacy for free software, particularly in
 relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy,
 she was executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was
 general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen
 co-organizes <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>, the
 award-winning outreach program for women globally and for people of color who
 are underrepresented in US tech. Karen is a recipient of the O’Reilly Open
 Source Award and cohost of the oggcast <a href="http://faif.us/">Free as in
 Freedom</a>.</p>
 <p>Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she
 was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and
 Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering
 from The Cooper Union.</p>
 <p>Karen M. Sandler is an attorney and the executive director of Software Freedom
 Conservancy, a 501c3 nonprofit organization focused on ethical technology. As
 a patient deeply concerned with the technology in her own body, Karen is known
 as a cyborg lawyer for her advocacy for free software as a life-or-death
 issue, particularly in relation to the software on medical devices. She
 co-organizes Outreachy, the award-winning outreach program for people who face
 under-representation, systemic bias, or discrimination in tech. She is an
 adjunct Lecturer-In-Law of Columbia Law School and a visiting scholar at
 University of California Santa Cruz.</p>
 <p>Prior to joining Software Freedom Conservancy, Karen was the executive
 director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was the general counsel of
 the Software Freedom Law Center. She began her career as a lawyer at Clifford
 Chance and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.</p>
 <p>Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School where she was a James
 Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review.
 She also holds a bachelor of science in engineering from
 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.</p>
 <p>Sandler has won awards for her work on behalf of software freedom, including
 the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2011.</p>
 <h2 id="sage">Sage Sharp - Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion</h2>
 <p>Sage Sharp is the Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion at the Software
 Freedom Conservancy. Sage runs Outreachy, which is Conservancy's diversity
 initiative that provides paid, remote internships to people who are subject to
 systemic bias or impacted by underrepresentation in tech. Sage is a
 long-standing free software contributor, and is known for their work as a
 Linux kernel maintainer for seven years. They also founded their own company,
 Otter Tech, which has trained over 400 people on how to enforce a Code of
 Conduct.</p>
 <h2 id="pono">Daniel Pono Takamori - Community Organizer & Non-Profit Problem Solver</h2>
 <p>Pono joined Conservancy to help fill a community need for bridging technical
 and non-technical roles. Having worked at FOSS foundations and organizations
 for over a decade, his background in FOSS infrastructure led him to think more
 deeply about how to better use community intelligence instead of technology
 to solve governance questions. He is passionate about making FOSS a more
 equitable and inclusive space. With a background in mathematics and physics,
 he looks forward to mobilizing social intelligence and community goveranance
 as a basis for solving both technical and non-technical problems.</p>
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