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{% extends "base_about.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Staff - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}Staff{% endblock %}
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<h1>Staff</h1>
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<h2 id="karen">Karen M. Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is the executive director of Conservancy. Karen is known
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as a cyborg lawyer for her advocacy for free software, particularly in
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relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy,
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she was executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she was
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general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen
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co-organizes <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>, the
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award-winning outreach program for women globally and for people of color
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who are underrepresented in US tech. She is also pro bono counsel to the FSF
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and GNOME. Karen is a recipient of the O’Reilly Open Source Award and cohost
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of the oggcast <a href="http://faif.us/">Free as in Freedom</a>.</p>
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<p>Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she
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was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and
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Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering
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from The Cooper Union.</p>
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<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</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 Software
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Freedom Conservancy 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 id="brett">Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives</h2>
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<p>Brett Smith began his FLOSS advocacy in 2000 at college, organizing
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student groups and discussing the issues with professors and journalists. He
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also spent a couple of those summers interning at the Free Software
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Foundation, and working in various assisting roles there when he returned to
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campus. Later on he worked as the FSF's License Compliance Engineer from
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2006-2012, helping to shepherd the GPLv3 drafting process and do outreach
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after the license was released. From there, he worked as a Systems Engineer
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at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
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an <a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados</a> maintainer at Curoverse before
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joining Conservancy as Director of Strategic Initiatives in 2016. He holds a
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BS in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky.</p>
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<h2 id="denver">Denver Gingerich - FLOSS License Compliance Engineer</h2>
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<p>
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Denver works part-time managing the technical side of Conservancy's
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license compliance work, triaging new reports and verifying complete and
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corresponding source (C&CS). His roles elsewhere have recently
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included financial trading software development on GNU/Linux and
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previously involved writing system software for hardware companies,
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including driver writing for the kernel named Linux at ATI (now AMD) and
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Qualcomm. He founded a company that designs and builds magnetic stripe
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readers for security hobbyists where he designed the hardware and
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developed the device's tools and firmware, which are both free software.
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Denver also writes free software in his spare time, with patches accepted
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into Wine, the kernel named Linux, and GNU wdiff. Denver received his
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BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He gives presentations
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about digital civil rights and protecting the free software ecosystem,
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having spoken at conferences such as CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's
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Summercamp, and the Open Video Conference.</p>
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