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Brad Abruzzi is an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at MIT.

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Ben Adida studied Cryptography and Information Security at MIT. His specific technology interests include authentication infrastructures, electronic voting, reliable and secure transactional storage, and web application software development. He's a member of the Creative Commons Technology Advisory Board and of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Authentication Workgroup. At the Berkman Center, Ben works on two fronts: balancing the interests of business and free software, and strengthening privacy in the context of the war on terror.

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Dr. Meg Ambrose is an assistant professor at Georgetown University in the Communication, Culture & Technology department working in the area of international technology policy.

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Mike Ananny is an Assistant Professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where he researches the public significance of systems for networked journalism.

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David Ardia is an assistant professor of law at the UNC School of Law and a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. He also holds a secondary appointment as an assistant professor at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is the faculty co-director of the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. Before joining the UNC faculty, he founded and directed the Berkman Center’s Digital Media Law Project.

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Juliet Armstrong was a software engineer and worked on the H20 Project.

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Axel Arnbak is a cybersecurity and information law researcher at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam. At Berkman, Axel will analyze U.S. and E.U. cybersecurity governance models and their interplay with communications freedoms.

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Marguerite Avery is Senior Acquisitions Editor at The MIT Press where she acquires scholarly, trade, and reference work in Science and Technology Studies, Information Science, Communications, and Internet Studies.

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Bodó Balázs is an economist, assistant professor, and researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communications, Center for Media Research and Education. His academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries, digital archives, informal media economies.

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Allen Bargfrede is an associate professor of music business at Berklee College of Music, and Executive Director of Berklee's Rethink Music initiative.

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Jessica Baumgart is an affiliate of the Berkman Center and an employee of Renesys.

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Matt Becker is a JD candidate at Harvard Law School and Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Matt is interested in intellectual property law, commons-based peer production, and the impact of technology on consumer protection issues.

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James Bessen is currently a Berkman faculty associate and a Lecturer in Law at Boston University School of Law where he does research on the economics of technological innovation, including patents and Free/Open Source Software.

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Sara Boettiger is an economist and social impact advisor. She is Assistant Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley, Senior Advisor to Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, a Fellow at the Berkman Center and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils.

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danah boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently completed her PhD in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley.

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Rebecca Brackley was an LLM candidate at Harvard Law School. She is particularly interested in intellectual property issues in cyberspace, including the intersection of constitutional law and intellectual property.

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Glenn Otis Brown is a Berkman Center fellow.

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Trained in symbolic systems, mathematics, and theoretical economics at Stanford and Harvard, James Burns designs and develops new digital and intellectual frameworks for relational knowledge.

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Yang Cao is an associate professor and vice director of Intellectual Property Research Center of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law.

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June Casey is Librarian for Open Access and Scholarly Communication at the Harvard Law School Library and is a frequent collaborator on Berkman Center research projects.

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Tuna is a fellow at the Berkman Center and a Staff Attorney with the Citizen Media Law Project, which provides legal education and resources for individuals and organizations involved in citizen media.

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Tyng-Ruey Chuang is an associate research fellow at Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) where he is affiliated with both the Institute of Information Science and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation. He also teaches at the National Taiwan University as an associate professor. He does research in programming languages, Web technologies, geo-spatial informatics, and Internet and society.

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Julie E. Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and was a Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School during the 2009-10 academic year.

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Neal Cohen is a New York and English qualified lawyer in the Privacy & Security practice group at Perkins Coie LLP where he assists multinational organizations with their European and global data protection and privacy law compliance strategies.

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Dan Collis-Puro has a long history helping non-profits via technology, and is Berkman's systems administrator.

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Cheryl Contee, Partner at Fission Strategy, specializes in helping non-profit organizations and foundations use social media to create social good. She is also the co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics writing as “Jill Tubman” on one of the top black blogs online.

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Rosemary J. Coombe was a Fellow at the Berkman Center, where she worked on Chilling Effects and other IP-related projects.

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Munmun De Choudhury is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research interests are in the emergent area of computational social science.

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Laura DeBonis

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Donatella Della Ratta is PHD fellow at Copenhagen University (DK) and at the Danish Institute in Damascus (Syria). Her PHD work revolves around the politics of Syrian media industry, particularly TV drama.

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Ruha Devanesan is Executive Director of the Internet Bar Organization, a nonprofit institute specializing in research on improving access to justice through technology. Her academic interests lie in the use of technology to facilitate conflict resolution, grassroots development and access to culture in the Global South.

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Donnie, Hao Dong is a Student Fellow at Berkman Center. His research interests cover copyright reform, law and social development in digital age, and rule of law in China.

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A public policy entrepreneur, open government activist and negotiation expert David is retained by several governments to advise on open government and open data, works with two spin-offs of the Harvard Negotiation Project and advises businesses on open source strategies and community management.

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Technical Analyst (May 1998 - Sept. 2002), Student Fellow (Sept. 2002 - Jan. 2004)

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Bonnie Emerick is on the English Department faculty at Western State College in Gunnison, CO. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and a bachelor's in magazine journalism from Ohio University.

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Professor Tamar Frankel has written and taught in the areas of mutual funds, securitization, financial system regulation, fiduciary law and corporate governance.

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Josh is a programmer, activist, editor, and community builder.

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Sarah Genner's current work on digital media and society focuses on media psychology and youth - but hails from a diverse academic background that also includes media and communications studies, political science, and linguistics

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Yashomati Ghosh is working as an Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University, India. Her work focuses on analyzing the rights of the users in the field of online digital music.

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Oliver Goodenough is a Faculty Associate at Berkman and Professor at the Vermont Law School. Professor Goodenough has done extensive work in the combination of biology, evolutionary theory and law, focusing on three main topics: (i) the neurological basis of law and the sense of justice, (ii) evolutionary theory, particularly as applied to cultural evolution, and (iii) the application of game theory, cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary thought to problems of law, business and economics.

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Nick is a technologist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of the web and urban, social and civic systems.

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Sam Gustin is a Berkman Fellow exploring the intersection of technology, media, and politics. Gustin will focus his research on U.S. communications and broadband policy from the national to the local level.

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Vessy Haralampieva joined the Berkman Center in March 2006 as a Research Fellow working on the OpenNet Initiative.

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Alison Head is a Research Scientist in the Information School at the University of Washington and the Executive Director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a public benefit nonprofit dedicated to conducting ongoing, large-scale research about college students and their research habits and information practices in the digital age. Alison was a Berkman Fellow (2011-2012) and a Faculty Associate (2013-2014) and is now a Fellow at the metaLAB (at) Harvard working on the future of libraries.

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Herkko Hietanen is well known for his research on Creative Commons licensing. In his PhD dissertation he examined the how Creative Commons increases market efficiency.

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Matthew Hindman is Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. For the 2010-2011 academic year he will be a faculty associate with the Center, writing on the political economy of the online public sphere.

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At the Berkman Center Blythe coordinated a project exploring Digital Media in Cyberspace, in conjunction with Gartner|G2, the business strategy research arm for Gartner, Inc.

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Jeffrey Huang is a Berkman Center faculty associate and is the Director of the Media x Design Laboratory at EPFL Switzerland, where he is a Full Professor in the Department of Architecture and in the Faculty of Computer and Communication Sciences.

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Lewis Hyde's interests center on the public life of the imagination. He is currently at work on a book about "cultural commons," that vast, unowned store of ideas, inventions, and art that we have inherited from the past.

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Kimberley is working as a staff attorney with the Citizen Media Law Project.

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Jennifer Jubinville is a Project Manager for the Berkman Center.

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Karrie Karahalios is an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Illinois where she heads the Social Spaces Group. Her work focuses on the interaction between people and the social cues they perceive in networked electronic spaces.

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Ethan Katsh is Director of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution and Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Brian Keegan is a computational social scientist and post-doctoral fellow at Northeastern University. He is also an affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His research examines how temporary online organizations emerge, stabilize, dissolve, and regenerate.

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Diana is an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School. As a co-creator of ROFLCon, her interest in internet culture runs deep. Most recently, this interest has expressed itself in learning Ruby (a programming language) and applying an open-source ethos to mentoring. She's also exploring the concept of total authorship as it relates to art.

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Gene Koo focuses on emerging methods of education in a digitally networked world. In collaboration with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, he is developing a commons where law professors can collaboratively create teaching materials. He also studies the intersection of video games and moral development.

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Molly Krause was the Project Leader for H2O -- an open source, educational platform that explores powerful ways to connect professors, students, and researchers online

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Laura Kurgan is Associate Professor of Architecture at Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, and Planning at Columbia University, where she is Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL) and the Director of Visual Studies.

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Karim R. Lakhani is a Berkman Center faculty associate and an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on distributed innovation and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and communities. He has done extensive research on open source communities and their mechanisms for innovation.

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Catalina Laserna’s primary research field is the study of culture, media and learning. For the last 15 years she has been researching the ways in which digital media can interrupt and transform educational traditions, both in K-12 environments and in higher education.

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Jack was Research Fellow at the Berkman Center, where he worked to develop a nonprofit digital music distribution system modeled after proposals to reform the current entertainment industry and intellectual property system via collective licensing and revenue-pooling regimes.

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As a Project Manager at the Berkman Center, Nathaniel works on several initiatives cutting across the themes of education, youth, and innovation.

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A long-time Filter reader and Berkman Center admirer, Isaac attended BCIS's ILAW 2001 conference in July of 2001 where he solidified his interest in cyberlaw and the Berkman Center. When Isaac returned to Cambridge to begin his studies at HLS as a 1L that fall, he got involved with several Berkman Center projects.

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Hila Lifshitz-Assaf is at the New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences. Her research focuses on developing an in-depth empirical and theoretical understanding of the micro-foundations of scientific and technological innovation and knowledge creation processes in the digital age.

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Susie Lindsay is currently regulatory counsel at Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. in Toronto - where she practices broadcasting, telecommunications and copyright law.

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Shelley was a project lead and system architect for the Internet Robustness project.

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Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where she teaches master's courses in media and communications theory, methods, and audiences. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, Sonia's research asks why and how the changing conditions of mediation are reshaping everyday practices and possibilities for action and identity in public and private spheres.

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Maria Löblich is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science and Media Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in Germany. Her current research focuses on political processes and regulatory arrangements in internet policy at the national and cross-country comparative level.

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Yanni Alexander Loukissas is a Principal at metaLAB, a research project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University that explores digital futures for scholarship in the arts and humanities. He is also a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches courses in Architecture as well as Art, Design and the Public Domain.

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Xinlei Lu is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism at Fudan University, Shanghai and is studying how cyber-technology has been employed to prevent HIV/AIDS in the gay community in China, and the political, commercial, and social factors implicated therein.

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Rebecca MacKinnon is a veteran journalist who has enthusiastically embraced the new world of weblogs and participatory media. She is co-founder with Berkman fellow Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices Online, an international online citizens’ media project housed at the Berkman Center.

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Ronald Mann was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2005.

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Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist focusing on the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. He's currently writing a book on music, networked media, and transnational youth culture.

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Betsy Masiello is a Policy Manager on Google’s public policy team. As part of her work at Google she is one of the leads for the company's privacy efforts and for analyzing Google’s and the Internet’s impact on the economy.

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Giuseppe is an Italian attorney specializing in intellectual property law, media law, antitrust law and information technology law.

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Grant's particular interest is the anthropology of contemporary American culture. At the Berkman Center, he will be looking at emerging ideas of order.

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Patrick previously served as the Berkman Center's Communications Coordinator, handling internal and external communications for the center, its fellows, and its projects.

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silvio is one of the founders and current chairman of the board of porto digital, chair of the national institute of science and technology for software engineering, INES, in recife, brazil, and one of the founders and agent provocateur at ikewai.com, a business design and development network at porto digital. in this academic year, silvio meira is an associate professor at the center for technology and society at the getúlio vargas foundation, rio de janeiro, brazil.

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Talia worked with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on questions of digital space and content and focused on education and the role of public/private spaces and institutions.

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Laura Miyakawa is the Project Manager for Herdict. In this role, she directs the tactics and the long term strategy for the site.

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Maria Lillà Montagnani is associate professor of commercial law at Bocconi University in Milan, where she teaches and researches in the field of Intellectual Property Law. She is head of ASK, a research center devoted to the promotion of cultural planning and cultural institutions management activities. Her current research interest is "Copyright and Architecture", in particular, the role of new technologies in facilitating civic engagement in relation to urban and architectural spaces.

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Mr. Muresianu is working on a book/website designed to foster in- depth multi-disciplinary thinking about the most pressing issues of today.

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Rebecca Nesson is a Berkman Alumae and a Ph.D. candidate in Computational Linguistics at Harvard University.

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Odewale has degrees in Chemistry (Medicinal Chemistry) and Chemical Engineering Technology. Born in Lagos, South West Nigeria, he also holds professional training diplomas in Community Local Participation (UNICEF); International Elections Observation Missions (KAIPTC/ECOWAS); Mentoring Young Leaders under the Kwame Nkrumah emerging leaders training series, and; the African Contingency Operations and Training Assistance (ACOTA) (ECOWAS) among others.

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Dotan taught a seven-meeting workshop and organized a reading group on economic analysis of intellectual property, was a teaching assistant for the Internet Law Colloquium, co-authored teaching modules for Berkman’s Internet Law Program, established Berkman’s Research Publication Series and participated in the institutional design of Creative ommons, a non-profit that enhances sharing and cumulative production of intellectual property.

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Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives.

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Eric M.K Osiakwan is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA, www.afrispa.org) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA, www.gispa.org.gh). He is also a Visiting Fellow and Scholar at the Stanford University and Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program @ http://rdvp.org/fellows/2004-2005/erik-osiakwan/, Project Co-ordinator for UC Berkeley TIER Group in Ghana @ http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu and affiliate of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School @ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu

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Brandon Palmen is a Junior Software Engineer with StopBadware.org.

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Web Applications Developer

Anita Patel is a Web Applications Developer currently working on various internal as well as Harvard-wide web projects.

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Jon is a lawyer, Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab / Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and a doctoral student in information communication sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where his interdisciplinary research explores regulatory chilling effects online.

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Ben Peters is a historian of modern technology and a media theorist with emphases on the history and philosophy of information science and technology. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa, where he also teaches in the Honors Program and the Russian Studies Programs as well as directs the Digital Working Group.

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Mica Pollock, an anthropologist of education, has long studied how youth and adults discuss and address everyday issues of diversity and opportunity in schools. Pollock is now examining the full range of communications — including electronic communications — necessary to support young people in diverse communities.

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Intisar A. Rabb is an assistant professor of law at Boston College Law School--where she teaches comparative Islamic law and legal history, advanced constitutional law, and criminal law--and a faculty affiliate in research at Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program.

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David G. Rand is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, as well as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mathematical Biology at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. David studies human cooperation from an evolutionary game theoretic perspective.

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Ivan Reidel was a Student Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School.

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Mary Rundle is a fellow with the Berkman Center and a non-resident fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Through the Net Dialogue project, she has been mapping ways in which governments are working in international organizations to iron out common policies for the networked world.

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Dena T. Sacco is a Senior Researcher for the Kinder & Braver World Project, which grows out a partnership between the Berkman Center, The Born This Way Foundation (BTWF), the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The California Endowment.

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Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management and Systems and the School of Law.

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Henrik Schneider was a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2005.

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I'm Steve Schultze, Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton.

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Jesse Shapins is a media artist, theorist and social entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, and Wired, and been exhibited at MoMA, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, among other venues.

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Jennifer Shkabatur is a doctoral candidate (SJD) at Harvard Law School, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

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Esther Simmons joined the Berkman Team in September 2012 as the Staff Assistant for the Center and the Cyberlaw Clinic.

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Derek Slater was a fellow at the Berkman Center while a senior at Harvard College, focusing his efforts on the Digital Media Project.

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Christopher Soghoian is a student fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is also a third year PhD student with the School of Informatics at Indiana University.

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Ashkan Soltani is an independent researcher and consultant focused on privacy, security, and behavioral economics.

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Dino studies Instructional Technology and Media at Columbia University, where he has also been a teaching assistant and digital media consultant.

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Elisabeth Staksrud (PhD) is a graduate from the University of Oslo, with a doctoral degree in Media and Communications. Her key research interests lie in two interlinked fields: research on Internet censorship and the regulation of content, and children and online risk.

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Dr. Daniel Stauffacher is a founder and President of the ICT4Peace Foundation, which since 2003 explores, champions the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for peace-building, crisis management, and humanitarian aid, and supports diplomatic processes for a peaceful and open cyberspace.

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Victoria is a fellow with the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, which examines the role of the Internet in democratic decision making, focusing on the Middle East.

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Manik Suri is Co-Founder of The Governance Lab (GovLab), a civic technology platform that designs and implements network- and data-driven solutions to improve public policy and advance 21st century democracy.

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Sarah Szalavitz is the co-founder of 7 Robot, a virtual industrial design company.

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Coordinator of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force

Jess Tatlock joined the Berkman Center in Spring, 2008 as the Coordinator of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.

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Mitali Thakor is a PhD student in MIT's HASTS program. She studies sex work, sex trafficking, technology, and digital forensics.

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Baratunde is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He is the CEO and co-founder of Cultivated Wit, served as Director of Digital for The Onion and writes the monthly back page column for Fast Company.

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Zac Townsend is an affiliate of the Berkman Center and co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed startup focused on building a more open banking system.

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Doreen Tu comes from Taiwan’s District Prosecutors Office in Taipei, and is conducting research on botnets, the impact of cross-border cybercrimes, and strategies to combat them.

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Jessica Valenti – called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by The Guardian – is the author of three books: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut”¦and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know, and The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women which has been made into a documentary by the Media Education Foundation. Jessica is also the founder of Feministing.com

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In 1998-99 Molly was a full-time Berkman Center fellow, researching application of the state action doctrine to private Internet content filtering and developing the curriculum for Harvard's "Internet and Society" course...

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Information, UC Berkeley, and a research fellow at the Transparency and Accountability Initiative at the Open Society Foundation. Rajesh questions the widespread belief that information technology can be used to "solve" either development or governance "problems," both by engaging in activism involving technological interventions and by using empirical methods to critically examine claims about the impact of ICT in governance.

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Host of my own Theory of Everything.Past lives: WFMU, WNYC, Guardian, Berkman Center.

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Kit Walsh is the Clinical Instructional Fellow at the Cyberlaw Clinic of the Berkman Center. Kit’s clinical practice focuses on civil liberties, particularly free speech and privacy.

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Tricia Wang is a global tech ethnographer who researches how technology makes us human. Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology and culture—the investigation of how social media and the internet affect identity-making, trust formation, and civic participation.

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Ching-Lin Wang is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a public prosecutor in Nantou District Prosecutors Office, Ministry of Justice, Taiwan, and her research focuses on laws about surveillance of encrypted instant messenger.

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Ben Weeks is a junior software developer at the Berkman Center. He is currently working on the StopBadware.org project.

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Rebecca Weintraub is the Faculty Director of the Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project at Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the Division of Global Health Equity, and a 2014 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. As a Berkman Fellow, Dr. Weintraub will research and develop a framework for digital badges as an incentive for health care professionals.

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Kenny Whitebloom is a project coordinator at the Berkman Center, where he works on the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative.

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Tsui-fang Wu is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a senior Public Prosecutor of Taichung Branch, Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, Taiwan Ministry of Justice.

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Jeffrey R. Young is an editor and writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he leads the paper's coverage of technology and its impact on teaching, research, and student life.

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