The staff are listed alphabetically by surname.
+ +Rosanne DiMesio is the Technical Bookkeeper at the Software Freedom +Conservancy where she handles incoming and outgoing accounting +activities for all its member projects as well as financial operations +for Conservancy itself. Rosanne has been volunteering with the Wine +Project since 2008 where she focuses on user support and documentation. +She has worked as an English teacher, a freelance writer and as IT +support. She is passionate about helping free software projects improve +their user experience. Rosanne received her Masters in Communication & +Theater at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her Bachelor’s +degree in English from the University of Chicago.
+ +Denver manages SFC's license compliance work, including its technical parts +(such as triaging new reports and verifying complete corresponding source) as +well as planning and carrying out our enforcement strategy (with advice and +input from SFC's Executive Director and Policy Fellow). Outside of SFC, Denver +also co-runs a FOSS business. Previously, Denver authored financial trading +software on Linux. Denver writes free software in his spare time: his patches +have been accepted into Wine, Linux, and wdiff. Denver received his BMath in +Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He gives presentations about +digital civil rights and how to ensure FOSS remains sustainable as a community +and financially, having spoken at conferences such as LinuxCon North America, +Texas Linux Fest, LibrePlanet, CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp, +CopyleftConf, and the Open Video Conference.
+ +Tracy acts as Operations Manager at Software Freedom Conservancy. +Bringing her super-skills of organization and love of bureaucracy, +she helps things run at SFC smoothly behind the scenes. +Tracy also serves on the board of her local hackerspace, an organization +committed to teaching and promoting open technology exclusively. +She feels that open techonology allows people to express their creativity +regardless of their financial situation or technical background. +Tracy is currently persuing a degree in GIS from the University of Tennessee.
+ + +Bradley M. Kuhn is +the Policy Fellow and +Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom +Conservancy and editor-in-chief +of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in +the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early +adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free +Software projects, including Perl. 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 2001–2005, Kuhn +led FSF's GPL enforcement, +launched its Associate Member +program, and invented +the Affero GPL. 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 Loyola +University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from +the University of +Cincinnati. Kuhn's +Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free +Software programming languages. Kuhn received +the O'Reilly +Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on +copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a +blog and co-hosts +the audcast, Free as in +Freedom.
+ +Rick Sanders, has over 20 years' experience as a intellectual-property +litigator. He started his legal career at Fenwick & West's Silicon Valley +office, then moved to Nashville to join Waller, before co-founding Aaron & +Sanders, with the goal of providing sophisticated legal services to technology +clients in Middle Tennessee. Rick also taught copyright law at Vanderbilt +University School of Law, and he co-produced The Copyright Office Comes to +Music City for many years. He is also a past chair of the American Bar +Association's Trademarks and the Internet committee, and the Nashville Bar +Association's Intellectual Property Section. He is admitted to the bar of the +States of California and Tennessee, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeal for the +Sixth and Ninth Circuits and all U.S. District Courts in California and +Tennessee. Before becoming a lawyer, Rick was a college instructor in English +composition and literature, especially Shakespeare. He is a native of Mountain +View, California and now lives in Nashville.
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +Sandler has won awards for her work on behalf of software freedom, including +the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2011. She received an honorary doctorate +from KU Leuven in 2023.
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +Paul has been using Linux and FOSS for over 26 years and working as a sysadmin +for over 20 years. Having fallen in love with computers at a young age, he +found it intellectually intersting and found the FOSS world an incredible +and natural place to learn. He brings a passion for how free and open source +software can make our society a much more equitable place, and work for us +rather than against us.
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