[Advocacy Advisors] Congrats to Yana!

Tue Jul 7 23:27:40 UTC 2015

Congratulations Yana, great achievement!

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:

> 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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