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{% extends "base_about.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Officers - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}Officers{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<h1>Officers</h1>
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<p>The <a href="/about/board/">Board of Directors</a> of the Conservancy
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elects its officers. The current officers are:</p>
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<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Board Chairperson</h2>
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<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
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Distinguished Technologist at <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software
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Freedom Conservancy</a> and on the Board of Directors of the <a
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href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his
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work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became
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an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to
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various FLOSS projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
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and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science
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at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in
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2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from
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2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate
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Member program, and invented the <a
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href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. From
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2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the
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Software Freedom Law Center. Kuhn was the primary volunteer for Conservancy
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from 2006–2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011.
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Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from <a
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href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola University in
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Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the <a
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href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of Cincinnati</a>. <a
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href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's Master's thesis</a>
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discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming
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languages. Kuhn received the <a
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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.</p>
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<h2>Mark Galassi - Vice-President</h2>
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<p>Mark Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984. He
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currently works as a researcher in the International, Space, and Response
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division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has worked on the
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HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite,
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and the muon tomography project. In 1997, Mark took a couple of years off
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from Los Alamos (where he was previously in the ISR division and the
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Theoretical Astrophysics group) to work for Cygnus (now a part of Red Hat)
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writing software and books for eCos, although he continued working on the
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HETE-2 satellite (an astrophysical Gamma Ray Burst mission) part
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time. Mark earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the
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Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. </p>
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<h2>Peter Brown - Treasurer</h2>
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<p>Peter Brown has worked in non-profit management and finance for more
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than twenty years. He served as the Executive Director of the Free
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Software Foundation from 2005 until 2011, and previously as its
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Financial Controller and GPL Compliance Lab Manager. Peter has also
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been a Director of New Internationalist Publications Cooperative, and
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worked in London for BBC Network Radio.</p>
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<h2>Karen Sandler - Secretary</h2>
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<a id="karen"></a>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously
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the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the
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GNOME Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for
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Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the
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Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work
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with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining
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SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson,
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Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and
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London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000,
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where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science
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and Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in
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engineering from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open
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Source Award and also co-host of the <a href="http://faif.us">“Free
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as in Freedom” podcast</a>.</p>
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