About

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.

Board of Directors

  • spacer Camille Francois (Sciences-Po) Email

    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!).

  • spacer Andrea Fassina (University of York) Email

    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.

  • spacer 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.

  • spacer 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.

  • spacer Aditi Rajaram (New York University) Email

    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.


Other officers/volunteers

  • spacer Web Team Leader: Alec Story (Cornell University) Email

    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.

  • spacer Sysadmin of Last Resort: Asheesh Laroia (Johns Hopkins University alumnus) Email

    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.

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Alumni Advisory Board

  • spacer 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.

  • spacer Kevin Donovan (Georgetown) Email

    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.

  • spacer Elizabeth Stark is the founder of the Harvard University chapter of Students for Free Culture. She went to Brown University and is currently a lecturer at Yale University, teaching courses on law and technology. She is also a founder of the Open Video Alliance. At Harvard, she conducted research for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, was an Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law Technology, and has worked as Teaching Fellow for courses in Cyberlaw, Electronic Music, and Internet and Society. She has collaborated with organizations such as the EFF, Creative Commons, and iCommons. She is highly interested in the impact of technology on digital culture, and is (semi-)obsessed with electronic music.
  • Gavin Baker
  • Brendan Ballou
  • Fred Benenson
  • Nelson Pavlosky
  • Karen Rustad

Faculty Advisory Board

  • Pat Aufderheide, University Professor @ American University; Director, Center for Social Media
  • James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law @ Duke Law School; Co-founder, Center for the Study of the Public Domain
  • Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture and Communication @ NYU
  • Stephen Duncombe, Associate Professor, Gallatin School, New York University
  • Edward Felten, Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs @ Princeton University; Director, Center for Information Technology Policy
  • Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts @ the University of Southern California;
  • Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law @ Harvard Law School; Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
  • Rebecca MacKinnon, Bernard Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation; co-founder, Global Voices Online
  • Kembrew McLeod, Associate Professor, University of Iowa
  • Michael R. Nelson, Visiting Professor @ Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture and Technology Program
  • Brian Rowe, Adjunct Professor at University of Washington’s Information School and Seattle University Law
  • Wendy Seltzer, Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship; Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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