Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Congrats to Yana!

Congratulations! If I can be of help, let me know - I'm in New York, so could easily go there! On Tuesday, July 7, 2015, Geoff Brigham &lt;gbrigham(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > > Thanks so much for your engagement on this list and your hard work on > a host of issues. I probably follow this list the closest, and really > respect your insights and judgment as we navigate through a number of > tricky or tough issues. > > > If I may, I have some good news to report from WMF. Yana Welinder > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:YWelinder_(WMF)> on the > legal team has just been named as a 2015-2016 affiliate scholar/researcher > for Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society > <https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>. (Yana is also a Fellow > <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/yana-welinder> with the Stanford > Center for Internet & Society <http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/>.) > > As a Berkman Center Affiliate, Yana will have the opportunity to > further engage with the Internet law and policy community and continue her > research on issues that support Wikimedia movement values. Yana’s previous > work in this space has included a research paper > <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2476779> > highlighting Wikimedia’s trademark policy process (co-written with her > legal colleague Stephen LaPorte > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Slaporte_(WMF)>) and > CollabMark <http://collabmark.org/index.html>, an open source guide > to trademark policies (also co-created by Stephen). > > > Congrats to Yana, and thanks again to all those on this list for your > hard work and dedication to issues of shared interest. > > > Geoff > > -- > Geoff Brigham > General Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6750 > gbrigham(a)wikimedia.org > > *California Registered In-House Counsel* > > *Notice: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If > you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about > the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and > ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, > community members, volunteers, or Board and staff members in their personal > capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* > > _______________________________________________ > Advocacy_Advisors mailing list > Advocacy_Advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors > > -- Best, Veni http://veni.com https://facebook.com/venimarkovski https://twitter.com/veni *** The opinions expressed above are those of the author, not of any organizations, associated with or related to him in any given way. *** == Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the touchscreen keyboard. Also, that's the reason for using short words and phrases. _______________________________________________ Advocacy_Advisors mailing list Advocacy_Advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors