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 Outreachy, 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 Free as in -Freedom.
+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.
-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.
+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 Arvados 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.
+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. 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.