I am happy to announce that effective today, Stephen LaPorte is joining
the Foundation as legal counsel in the Legal and Community Advocacy team!
Stephen has been interning with us for a semester, and we're thrilled that
he's staying onboard. We went through a very competitive interview process
and he was by far the best candidate for the role. One of the criteria for
this role was that the candidate be a Wikimedian, and Stephen fits that
neatly. *As a volunteer, he enjoys de-orphaning articles and cleaning up
dead-end pages on the English Wikipedia. He also proofreads on the English
Wikisource. He started contributing to Wikipedia in 2008 after working on
[[w:Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve]] for a class project.*
You'll have the chance to meet him at the Berlin Hack-a-thon, or at
Wikimania this summer. *A little bit of background on Stephen: he
studied English and Latin at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and law at
the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is interested
in copyright, privacy, and trademark law. During law school, he worked on
the Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal.*
Stephen will be helping out with contracts, content/community
questions/issues, trademark approvals & licensing, trademark enforcement,
and other general matters that come up for lawyers. Stephen will report to
me.
This was an extremely competitive process, and we're very lucky to have
him join us.
Kind Regards,
Kelly
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Kelly Kay
Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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