Students for Free Culture (SFC) is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. SFC chapters exist at over 40 colleges and universities around the world.
Students for Free Culture was founded by two Swarthmore students after they sued voting machine manufacturer Diebold for abusing copyright law in 2003. SFC has collaborated with Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Downhill Battle, and other free software and media reform groups.
To contact us, e-mail us at board@freeculture.org, or visit the Contact page.
Camille is a Masters’ student in International Affairs at Sciences-Po, in France, and at Columbia, NY. She has worked for Google, writes on Internet Governance Issues, founded the French Chapter of SFC and organized a Free Culture Festival called YAPOI (for You Are Part Of It!).
Andrea is currently in his third year of study doing a Master in Electronics at the University of York in England. Andrea recently started a chapter at U of York, and is leading an effort to bring SFC to the UK.
Adi Kamdar (Yale) Email
Adi is a junior at Yale University, where he is a History of Science, History of Medicine major with a focus on the history of technology. He initiated the Yale chapter of SFC, which has garnered national attention for several of its campaigns. He’s an undergraduate fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and he worked at the Berkman Center this summer.
Parker Phinney (Dartmouth) Email
Parker is a rising junior at Dartmouth, majoring in Computer Science. Parker has founded two SFC chapters (one at his high school and another at Dartmouth), and has led the freeculture.org web team. He interned at Creative Commons last summer and worked this past Winter with SFC alumni on OpenHatch.org.
Aditi is a rising senior at NYU, double majoring in Journalism and Political Science. She has served as Secretary and Vice President of Free Culture @ NYU, and will be serving as President next year.
Alec is a junior at Cornell, double majoring in Computer Science and Biology. He is a founding member and president of Cornell SFC, and has worked at Google as a software engineer.
Asheesh Laroia received a M.S. in computer science at the Johns Hopkins University in 2007. He received his B.A. in cognitive science from JHU. In 2004, he filed a deposition in the Diebold lawsuit that first earned the student free culture movement coverage in the national media. A long-time participant in free software and free culture, he interned at Creative Commons in 2006.
Ben Moskowitz (UC Berkeley) Email
Ben Moskowitz co-founded the SFC@Berkeley 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 and the Open Video Conference in NYC. He is currently a student of Mandarin at NYU SCPS and serves as the general coordinator of the Open Video Alliance.
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 infoDev program and is currently working on an OpenCourseWare pilot program. He writes about technology policy at Techdirt, his personal blog, and on Twitter.