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Brett Smith (brett) - 7 years ago 2017-05-26 13:56:18
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staff: Updated bio from Karen.

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 <h1>Staff</h1>
 <h2>Karen Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
+<h2>Karen M. Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
 <a id="karen"></a>
 <p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously
 the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME
 Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for
 Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the
 Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work
 with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining
 SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson,
 Dunn &amp; Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and
 London. 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
 <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. She is also pro bono counsel to the FSF
 and GNOME. 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. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award
 and also co-host of the <a href="http://faif.us">&ldquo;Free as in
 Freedom&rdquo; podcast</a>.</p>
 from The Cooper Union.</p>
 <h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2>
 <a id="bkuhn"></a>
 <p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
 Distinguished Technologist at Software
 Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the <a
 href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his
 work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became
 an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to
 various FLOSS projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
 and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science
 at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.  Kuhn's non-profit career began in
 , when he was hired by the FSF.  As FSF's Executive Director from
 &ndash;2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate
 Member program, and invented the <a
 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>.  From
 -2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the
 Software Freedom Law Center.  Kuhn was the primary volunteer for Conservancy
 from 2006&ndash;2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 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 FLOSS 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.</p>
 <h2>Tony Sebro - General Counsel</h2>
 <a id="tony"></a>
 <p>Tony Sebro is a seasoned technology attorney with a broad base of
 business and legal experience relating to technology, strategy, and
 business development.  Before joining Conservancy, Tony was most recently
 a Partner with the PCT Companies, a family of professional service firms.
 Prior to that, he was Program Director, Technology &amp; Intellectual
 Property at IBM's Armonk, New York world headquarters, where he was
 responsible for developing and executing licensing strategies in
 partnership with IBM's Software Group.  In that role, Tony led
 negotiations and structured deals with market leaders in the web
 technology, e-commerce, retail, enterprise software, and financial
 services sectors.  Tony also led various internal strategic initiatives,
 including an effort to provide business leaders of key emerging market
 opportunities with coordinated intellectual property development and
 monetization strategies, as well as the revamping and supervision of IBM's
 corporate-wide process for determining the value and availability of
 patents for sale.  Prior to his tenure at IBM, Mr. Sebro practiced law in

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