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<h1>Staff</h1>
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<p>The staff are listed alphabetically by surname.</p>
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<h2 id="dimesio">Rosanne DiMesio - Technical Bookkeeper</h2>
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<p>Rosanne DiMesio is the Technical Bookkeeper at the Software Freedom
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Conservancy where she handles incoming and outgoing accounting
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activities for all its member projects as well as financial operations
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for Conservancy itself. Rosanne has been volunteering with the Wine
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Project since 2008 where she focuses on user support and documentation.
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She has worked as an English teacher, a freelance writer and as IT
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support. She is passionate about helping free software projects improve
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their user experience. Rosanne received her Masters in Communication &
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Theater at the University of Illinois at Chicago and her Bachelor’s
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degree in English from the University of Chicago.</p>
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<h2 id="denver">Denver Gingerich - Director of Compliance</h2>
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<p>Denver manages SFC's license compliance work, including its technical parts
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(such as triaging new reports and verifying complete corresponding source) as
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well as planning and carrying out our enforcement strategy (with advice and
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input from SFC's Executive Director and Policy Fellow). Outside of SFC, Denver
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also co-runs a FOSS business. Previously, Denver authored financial trading
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software on Linux. Denver writes free software in his spare time: his patches
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have been accepted into Wine, Linux, and wdiff. Denver received his BMath in
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Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He gives presentations about
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digital civil rights and how to ensure FOSS remains sustainable as a community
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and financially, having spoken at conferences such as LinuxCon North America,
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Texas Linux Fest, LibrePlanet, CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp,
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CopyleftConf, and the Open Video Conference.</p>
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<h2 id="tracy">Tracy Homer - Operations Manager</h2>
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<p>Tracy acts as Operations Manager at Software Freedom Conservancy.
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Bringing her super-skills of organization and love of bureaucracy,
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she helps things run at SFC smoothly behind the scenes.
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Tracy also serves on the board of her local hackerspace, an organization
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committed to teaching and promoting open technology exclusively.
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She feels that open techonology allows people to express their creativity
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regardless of their financial situation or technical background.
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Tracy is currently persuing a degree in GIS from the University of Tennessee.</p>
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<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn - Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence</h2>
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<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is
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the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and
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Hacker-in-Residence</a> at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom
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Conservancy</a> and editor-in-chief
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of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in
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the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early
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adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free
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Software projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system
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administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP
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Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's
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non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's
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Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn
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led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL enforcement</a>,
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launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its Associate Member
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program</a>, and invented
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the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. Kuhn
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began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first
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staff person in 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science
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from <a href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola
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University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from
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the <a href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of
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Cincinnati</a>. <a href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's
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Master's thesis</a> discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free
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Software programming languages. Kuhn received
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the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
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Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
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copyleft licensing. Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a
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blog</a> and co-hosts
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the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in
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Freedom</cite></a>.</p>
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<h2 id="rick">Rick Sanders - General Counsel</h2>
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<p>Rick Sanders, has over 20 years' experience as a intellectual-property
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litigator. He started his legal career at Fenwick & West's Silicon Valley
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office, then moved to Nashville to join Waller, before co-founding Aaron &
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Sanders, with the goal of providing sophisticated legal services to technology
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clients in Middle Tennessee. Rick also taught copyright law at Vanderbilt
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University School of Law, and he co-produced The Copyright Office Comes to
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Music City for many years. He is also a past chair of the American Bar
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Association's Trademarks and the Internet committee, and the Nashville Bar
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Association's Intellectual Property Section. He is admitted to the bar of the
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States of California and Tennessee, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeal for the
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Sixth and Ninth Circuits and all U.S. District Courts in California and
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Tennessee. Before becoming a lawyer, Rick was a college instructor in English
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composition and literature, especially Shakespeare. He is a native of Mountain
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View, California and now lives in Nashville.</p>
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<h2 id="karen">Karen M. Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is an attorney and the executive director of Software Freedom
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Conservancy, a 501c3 nonprofit organization focused on ethical technology. As
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a patient deeply concerned with the technology in her own body, Karen is known
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as a cyborg lawyer for her advocacy for free software as a life-or-death
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issue, particularly in relation to the software on medical devices. She
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co-organizes Outreachy, the award-winning outreach program for people who face
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under-representation, systemic bias, or discrimination in tech. She is an
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adjunct Lecturer-In-Law of Columbia Law School and a visiting scholar at
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University of California Santa Cruz.</p>
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<p>Prior to joining Software Freedom Conservancy, Karen was the executive
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director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was the general counsel of
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the Software Freedom Law Center. She began her career as a lawyer at Clifford
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Chance and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.</p>
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<p>Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School where she was a James
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Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review.
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She also holds a bachelor of science in engineering from
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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.</p>
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<p>Sandler has won awards for her work on behalf of software freedom, including
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the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2011. She received an honorary doctorate
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from KU Leuven in 2023.</p>
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<h2 id="sage">Sage Sharp - Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion</h2>
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<p>Sage Sharp is the Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion at the Software
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Freedom Conservancy. Sage runs Outreachy, which is Conservancy's diversity
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initiative that provides paid, remote internships to people who are subject to
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systemic bias or impacted by underrepresentation in tech. Sage is a
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long-standing free software contributor, and is known for their work as a
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Linux kernel maintainer for seven years. They also founded their own company,
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Otter Tech, which has trained over 400 people on how to enforce a Code of
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Conduct.</p>
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<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
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and non-technical roles. Having worked at FOSS foundations and organizations
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for over a decade, his background in FOSS infrastructure led him to think more
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deeply about how to better use community intelligence instead of technology
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to solve governance questions. He is passionate about making FOSS a more
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equitable and inclusive space. With a background in mathematics and physics,
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he looks forward to mobilizing social intelligence and community goveranance
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as a basis for solving both technical and non-technical problems.</p>
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<h2 id="paul">Paul Visscher - Systems Administrator</h2>
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<p>Paul has been using Linux and FOSS for over 26 years and working as a sysadmin
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for over 20 years. Having fallen in love with computers at a young age, he
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found it intellectually intersting and found the FOSS world an incredible
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and natural place to learn. He brings a passion for how free and open source
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software can make our society a much more equitable place, and work for us
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rather than against us. </p>
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