Karen Sandler | |
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Occupation | Executive Director, GNOME Foundation |
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http://punkrocklawyer.com/ |
Karen Sandler is the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, an attorney, and former general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center.
As of June 2011, Karen Sandler is executive director of the GNOME Foundation.[1]
Between October 31, 2005 [2] and June 21, 2011 Karen worked at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), first as counsel, and then as the organization's General Counsel after January 6, 2010.[3]
While at the SFLC, Karen advised a wide range of free and open source software organizations such as the Free Software Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, the X.Org Foundation, Software in the Public Interest and the Software Freedom Conservancy. With SFLC, she became a public speaker about issues of Free and Open Source software at conferences such as OSCON,[4][5] SCaLE,[6] and LinuxCon.[7] In 2010, Karen led an initiative advocating for free software on implantable medical devices[8] after exploring the issues surrounding the software on her own implanted medical device, which regulates an inherited heart condition[9]
Before working with the SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Sandler received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. She received her bachelor's degree in engineering from The Cooper Union.[10]
In addition to her work with the GNOME Foundation, Karen also serves as general counsel of Question Copyright [11] and as an officer of the Software Freedom Conservancy.[12] She is also co-host of the "Free as in Freedom" podcast[13]
As of May 21, 2011,[14] Karen is married to Mike Tarantino, a Grammy nominated music engineer.[15] Their wedding invitation, a working paper record player and playable record, was covered by a number of internet publications [16][17][18]