Who We Are

Staff

  • John Bergmayer, Staff Attorney
    contact | bio

  • Art Brodsky, Communications Director
    contact | bio

  • Alex Curtis, Director of Policy and New Media
    contact | bio

  • Harold Feld, Legal Director
    contact | bio

  • Tim Ingerick, Administrative Assistant
    contact | bio

  • Mehan Jayasuriya, Policy Analyst
    contact | bio

  • Jef Pearlman, Equal Justice Works Fellow
    contact | bio

  • Brooke Rae-Hunter, Development Director
    contact | bio

  • Rashmi Rangnath, Director, Global Knowledge Initiative and Staff Attorney
    contact | bio

  • Sherwin Siy, Deputy Legal Director and Kahle-Austin Promise Fellow
    contact | bio

  • Gigi B. Sohn, President and Co-Founder
    contact | bio | resources

  • Peter Suber, Director, Open Access Project
    contact | bio | blog | website

  • Adam Thomas, Staff Attorney
    contact | bio

  • Whitney Tompkins, Executive Assistant
    contact | bio

  • Michael Weinberg, Staff Attorney
    contact | bio

Board Members

  • Hal Abelson, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    bio | resources | website

  • David Bollier, Writer and Activist, Amherst, MA
    bio | resources | website

  • Jesse Dylan, Filmmaker; Co-Founder FORM, Los Angeles, CA
    bio

  • Warrington Hudlin
    Founder & Chief, dvRepublic
    President, Black Filmmaker Foundation
    bio | website

  • Hon. Reed Hundt, Senior Advisor, McKinsey and Company, Washington, DC
    bio | resources

  • Brewster Kahle
    Internet Archive, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-founder
    bio

  • Laurie Racine, Co-founder and President of dotSUB, New York, NY
    bio | resources

  • Gigi B. Sohn, President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge, Washington, DC
    bio | resources

  • Jonathan Taplin, Adjunct Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communiaction, Los Angeles, CA
    bio | resources | website

Advisory Board Members

  • Jonathan Band, Jonathan Band PLLC
    Washington, DC

  • Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
    Cambridge, MA

  • James Boyle, Professor of Law, Duke University
    Durham, NC
    website

  • Gigi Bradford, Fellow, Smithsonian Institution
    Washington, DC

  • Rachelle V. Brown, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution
    Washington, DC

  • Michael W. Carroll, Professor of Law and Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property American University, Washington College of Law
    Washington, DC

  • Denise Caruso, Executive Director, Hybrid Vigor Institute
    San Francisco, CA
    website

  • Susan Crawford, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School
    New York, NY
    blog

  • Julie Cohen, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law School
    Washington, DC

  • Adam Eisgrau, Eisgrau Business Alliances, PLLC
    Washington, DC

  • Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School
    Stanford, CA

  • Jessica Litman, Professor, University of Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI

  • Helen Nissenbaum, Professor, New York University, Department of Culture & Communication and Information Law Institute
    New York, NY

  • Bruce Perens, Strategist, GNU/Linux and Free Software

  • Monroe Price, Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
    New York, NY

  • Arti K. Rai, Professor, Duke University
    Durham, NC

  • Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center
    Washington, DC

  • Pam Samuelson, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley
    Berkeley, CA

  • Seth Shulman, Author, Journalist
    Watertown, MA

  • Barbara Simons, Past President, Association for Computing Machinery
    Palo Alto, CA

  • Christopher Sprigman, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
    Charlottesville, VA

  • Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director, ACLU
    New York, NY

  • Gary E. Strong, Director, UCLA Library
    Los Angeles, CA

  • Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor, New York University
    New York, NY

  • Steven Weber, Professor, University of California at Berkeley
    Berkeley CA

  • Frederick Weingarten, Director, American Library Association, Office of Information Technology Policy
    Washington DC

  • Kevin Werbach, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Wharton School of Business
    Philidelphia PA
    blog | website

  • Tim Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
    New York, NY
    website

  • Fred Von Lohman, Senior Intellectial Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
    San Francisco, CA

Organizations We Work With

Does your organization have interests that overlap with PKs? We’d love to work with you. Please email us at pk@publicknowledge.org.

Funders

Interns

Summer 2009

  • Matthew McHale, University of Michican Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Brian Rowe, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA
  • Julian Russo, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
  • Kathryn Tasker, New York University, New York, NY

Spring 2009

  • Daniel McCartney, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI

Fall 2008

  • Sarah Jameson, Catholic University School of Law, Washington, DC
  • Adi Robertson, University in Ithaca, New York, NY

Summer 2008

  • Ari Abramowitz, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, NY
  • Alex Kanous, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Jonathan Law, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL
  • Noah Pepper, Reed College, Portland, OR

Fall 2007

  • Michael Moreno, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC
  • Michael Weinberg, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC

Summer 2007

  • Brendan Ballou, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • John Bergmayer, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, CO
  • Elizabeth Gonsiorowski, Brooklyn Law School, New York, NY
  • Ben Kington, Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, OH
  • Jacob Levin, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
  • Kim Maynard, Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC

Fall 2006

  • Ghazaly Imam, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Karen Sum-Ping, George Washington University Law School

Summer 2006

  • Bill Herman, Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Christopher Johns, John Hopkins University
  • Rashmi Rangnath, American University Washington College of Law
  • Tim Schneider, New York University School of Law
  • Sarah Zenewicz, Boston University School of Law

Spring 2006

  • Neil Chilson, George Washington University Law School
  • Michael Larmoyeaux, George Washington University Law School
  • Rashmi Rangnath, American University Washington College of Law

Summer 2005

  • Robert Kendall, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
  • Kay Lu, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
  • Rita Sanzgiri, University of Colorado School of Law
  • Jay Tamboli, Georgetown University Law Center

Spring 2005

  • Matt Williams, American University Washington College of Law

Summer 2004

  • Jef Pearlman, Stanford Law School
  • Heidi Wachs, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

Summer 2003

  • Aaron Burstein, UC Berkeley School of Law
  • Richard Yun, New York University School of Law