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Daniel Takamori (pono) - 21 months ago 2022-06-22 19:54:57
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 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

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