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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>
 
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<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>
 
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<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
 
2000, when he was hired by the FSF.  As FSF's Executive Director from
 
2001&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
 
2005-2010, 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>
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