Audience & Participation Conveners

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Workstream conveners are responsible for the recruitment of a broad range of workstream members and the identification of expert participants for DPLA activities over the next two years.

Brian Bannon

Chief Information Officer, San Francisco Public Library
Brian is the CIO for the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) in this role, he leads the digital strategy, web, and media teams for the Library and is the general manager for Information Technology. Before SFPL, Brian lived in Seattle where worked within the City Libraries and at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Brian is very active in work related to public technology access and bridging the digital divided.

Rachael Bower

Director, Internet Scout
Rachael Estes Bower is Director of Internet Scout, a research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scout focuses on connecting educators with high-quality online information for use in classrooms and libraries, and creating tools, software and publications that support those connections. As a young woman Ms. Bower worked in both the film industry and the dot com world before settling happily into academia. She received her undergraduate degree in art and communications from Ohio University.

Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen Associate Professor of History and Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Daniel J. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, which produces digital resources and platforms for students, teachers, and scholars.

Michael Colford

Boston Public Library

Sam Klein

One Laptop Per Child/Wikimedia Foundation

Ira Rubinstein

Senior Fellow, NYU School of Law
Ira Rubinstein is a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute, NYU School of Law. His research interests include Internet privacy and security, electronic surveillance law, and online identity. He lectures and publishes widely on these issues and has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. Prior to joining the ILI, he spent 17 years in Microsoft’s law department, most recently as Associate General Counsel in charge of Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy.

Aaron Schmidt

Influx

Aaron Schmidt is a principal at Influx, a library user experience consultancy that helps libraries with research and design of physical and digital touchpoints. Previously he was the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the DC Public Library and the library director of a small public library outside of Portland, Oregon. Schmidt writes and writes a column for Library Journal called “The User Experience” and at his website walkingpaper.org.