[FC-discuss] Hello From Your New Board Of Directors

Fri Aug 7 12:15:03 EDT 2009

Writes Ben Moskowitz on our blog:

Hello!

The five of us are thrilled to join (and rejoin) the 2009-2010 board of
directors. We're very excited about guiding Students for Free Culture
over the next year—there's plenty of awesome stuff in store.

You'll hear more from us over the coming days about what we'll be doing
to re-energize SFC and the Free Culture movement. For now, we want to
take the opportunity to (re)introduce ourselves:

![Kevin Driscoll][1]**_Kevin Driscoll_ completed a Master's degree in
[Comparative Media Studies][2] at MIT last semester where he was a
member of the MIT Free Culture chapter and part of the [YouTomb][3]
research project. Kevin is concerned with encouraging everyday
creativity and highlighting unexpected uses of consumer technologies by
young people - especially in resistance to systemic oppression. In the
fall, he will continue graduate work at the [Annenberg School for
Communication][4] at USC. You can see his digital traces on his
[superfeed][5].

**

![Ben Moskowitz][6]**_Ben Moskowitz_** co-founded the [SFC at Berkeley][7]
chapter of Students for Free Culture and created a seminar on the
cultural dimensions of piracy. He also co-organized the [Free Culture
2008 Conference][8] and the [Open Video Conference in NYC][9].
 He is currently a student of Mandarin language at NYU SCPS and serves
as General Coordinator of the Open Video Alliance, promoting openness in
online video. See [http://openvideoconference.org][10] for more. Ben
wants to see SFC become a force on campuses all over the world—let's
make it happen!

![Kevin Donovan][11]**_Kevin Donovan_**_ _is a rising junior at
Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, majoring in Science,
Technology & International Affairs with a certificate in International
Development. He started the Georgetown chapter of SFC and has worked on
technology policy issues at the World Bank's _info_Dev program and is
currently working on an OpenCourseWare pilot program. He writes about
technology policy at [Techdirt][12], his [personal blog][13], and on
[Twitter][14].While in South Africa recently Kevin had the chance to go
sandboarding, which is easily the coolest sport ever devised.

![Christina Ducruet][15]**_Christina Ducruet_** graduated from Brown
University in May 2008 with a degree in Modern Culture and Media. While
an undergrad, she founded the Brown chapter of Students for Free Culture
in reaction to the RIAA lawsuits that hit 20+ campuses in Spring 2007.
She's been involved with SFC ever since, creating resources and
organizing campaigns to rally people to the Free Culture movement.
Christina is excited and honored to serve on the SFC Board for a second
term and thinks the best is yet to come for SFC. She currently lives and
works in Connecticut.

![Parker Higgins][16]**Parker Higgins** is entering his senior year at
New York University's Gallatin School for Individualized Study.  He is
the president of the NYU chapter of Students for Free Culture.  Stemming
from his previous work with the Participatory Culture Foundation,
creators of the Miro HD video player, he runs the occasionally updated
internet TV channels [Free Culture TV][17] and[ Yes We're Open][18].
 The channels feature freely-licensed FC-related content and highlight
emerging issues for the community. This summer he is volunteering for
Creative Commons.

## So, what's next?

You can review the notes of the first 09/10 board meeting [here][19].

The [nominations page][20] contains each candidates' thoughts on SFC and
its future. Here is where the five of us agree that our time should be
focused:

  * Ensuring that the Open University Campaign is a success, potentially
through a stand-alone site or committee-based action;

  * Collaborating with other organizations and establishing SFC as a key
public voice on free culture issues;

  * Planning the next Free Culture conference; and

  * Making involvement in SFC as user-friendly and accessible to new
members and chapters.

Of course, SFC's strength lies in the awesome people and projects of its
local chapters. Chapter leaders can expect to hear from us shortly as we
work to bring everyone up to speed with our plans to revitalize SFC. In
the meantime, we want to hear from you—what do you think is necessary to
keep SFC going strong through this year and beyond? What's next for SFC?
How can we improve? Sound off in the comments.

   [1]: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/2255271125_1bcc9bc210_o.jpg

   [2]: http://cms.mit.edu/

   [3]: http://youtomb.mit.edu/

   [4]: http://annenberg.usc.edu/

   [5]: http://kevindriscoll.info/

   [6]: http://freeculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/ben.jpg

   [7]: http://freeculture.berkeley.edu/

   [8]: http://conference.freeculture.org/

   [9]: http://openvideoconference.org/

   [10]: http://openvideoconference.org

   [11]: http://freeculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/donovan.jpg

   [12]: http://blurringborders.com/other-writing/

   [13]: http://blurringborders.com/

   [14]: http://www.twitter.com/kevindonovan

   [15]: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/2255271181_e6e01bf39f_o.jpg

   [16]: http://freeculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/parker.jpg

   [17]: http://freeculture.tv/

   [18]: http://freeculture.tv/yeswereopen

   [19]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Board09/2009-06-30

   [20]: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Nominations

URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/08/07/hello-from-your-new-board-of-directors/