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<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 M. Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom
 
Conservancy, which is the nonprofit home of many free and open source projects.
 
She 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. Prior to joining Conservancy, she was the executive director of the
 
GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was the general counsel of the Software
 
Freedom Law Center. Karen co-organizes Outreachy, the award-winning outreach
 
program for people who face under-representation, systemic bias, or
 
discrimination in tech . Karen is an adjunct Lecturer-In-Law  at Columbia Law
 
School. Sandler 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. She is the recipient of the Free
 
Software Foundation's 2017 Award for the Advancement of Free Software as well
 
as an O'Reilly Open Source Award.</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>
 
<h2 id="sage">Sage Sharp - Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion</h2>
 

	
 
<h2 id="brett">Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives</h2>
 
<p>Brett Smith began his FLOSS advocacy in 2000 at college, organizing
 
student groups and discussing the issues with professors and journalists.  He
 
also spent a couple of those summers interning at the Free Software
 
Foundation, and working in various assisting roles there when he returned to
 
campus.  Later on he worked as the FSF's License Compliance Engineer from
 
2006-2012, helping to shepherd the GPLv3 drafting process and do outreach
 
after the license was released.  From there, he worked as a Systems Engineer
 
at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
 
an <a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados</a> maintainer at Curoverse before
 
joining Conservancy as Director of Strategic Initiatives in 2016.  He holds a
 
BS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.</p>
 
<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>
 

	
 

	
 
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<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. Having worked at The Open Source Lab, The Apache
 
Software Foundation and the Linux Foundation previous, he is quite versed in
 
the landscape of FOSS foundations. 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 governance
 
as a basis for solving both technical and non-technical problems.</p>