[Advocacy Advisors] Congrats to Yana!

Tue Jul 7 23:25:28 UTC 2015

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 <gbrigham at wikimedia.org> 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
>
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