The Copyright Project

I am currently a PhD student in Human-Centered Computing in the school of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. I am advised by Dr. Amy Bruckman, as part of the Electronic Learning Communities lab. I am interested in the interaction between computing, norms, ethics, and law. My dissertation research focuses on the role that copyright law plays in online creative communities.

Education

Previous to my PhD, I earned a law degree from Vanderbilt University, with specialized coursework in intellectual property and Internet law. I served on the editorial board for the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, and my student note received a Burton Award for legal writing. I currently serve as the Associate Editor of the Journal of World Intellectual Property and am a member of the legal committee of the Organization for Transformative Works. In 2011 I was a Google Policy Fellow and had the opportunity to work at Creative Commons.

At Georgia Tech, I have taught the computer science undergraduate course Computing, Society, and Professionalism, covering ethics, technology law, and computing and society issues. I have also been a teaching assistant for Design of Online Communities and Issues in Human-Centered Computing, as well as Legal Writing in law school and Introduction to Computer Science as an undergraduate.

I also have an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction as well as a B.S. in Psychology from Georgia Tech. I grew up in Georgia, played for the Georgia Tech marching band as an undergraduate, and am a published science fiction and fantasy writer. I attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 2006 at Michigan State. I both knit and read voraciously.