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== Joe Catapano == | == Joe Catapano == | ||
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Joe Catapano is the Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the North America region at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); he also oversees ICANN’s academic engagement at the global level. In this capacity, Joe connects members of the private sector, civil society, government, academia, the technical community, and end users with ICANN’s work in the global Internet governance space, as well as its policy development processes. Prior to ICANN, Joe was a Communications Officer at the United Nations Foundation where he worked on US-UN relations, peacekeeping, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has extensive experience in the nonprofit and private sectors, previously holding strategic communications roles at Pfizer, Inc. and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Joe obtained his MA in Political Science from American University in Washington, DC, and his BA in Communications from Quinnipiac University. He is based in the Washington, DC Metro Area. | Joe Catapano is the Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the North America region at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); he also oversees ICANN’s academic engagement at the global level. In this capacity, Joe connects members of the private sector, civil society, government, academia, the technical community, and end users with ICANN’s work in the global Internet governance space, as well as its policy development processes. Prior to ICANN, Joe was a Communications Officer at the United Nations Foundation where he worked on US-UN relations, peacekeeping, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has extensive experience in the nonprofit and private sectors, previously holding strategic communications roles at Pfizer, Inc. and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Joe obtained his MA in Political Science from American University in Washington, DC, and his BA in Communications from Quinnipiac University. He is based in the Washington, DC Metro Area. | ||
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcatapano/ Joe Catapano] | [https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcatapano/ Joe Catapano] | ||
== Jon Conradt == | == Jon Conradt ''(Treasurer)'' == | ||
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Jon Conradt is an AI researcher, recently at Amazon AWS and currently working on a startup. He has volunteered as the ISOC-DC treasurer for the last year, which included attending and participating in council meetings. As the treasurer Jon has organized the Chapter's bank accounts, paid invoices, and completed grant paperwork. Jon wants to see the ISOC-DC chapter have an enlarged and reinvigorated impact on this area and via the Chapter's interactions with the U.S. federal government staff on US and global access. | |||
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonconradt Jon Conradt] | |||
== Ron da Silva ''(incumbent, co-Chair)'' == | |||
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Ron da Silva, current co-Chair of the Chapter, is an executive leader, international board member and internet technology expert with years of proven business experience, culminating in senior executive leadership. He is experienced leading internet engineering, architecture, and operations; building internet infrastructures and data centers; and advancing corporate and internet governance; providing management consulting and investment advice. He is an NACD certified Board Director with experience on the Boards of Chartway Credit Union, The Data Center Center Coalition, ICANN, CertifiedTrue and other non-profit Boards. He is a regular participant in ISOC-DC for more than twenty (20+) years. He brings financial, technical, governance and policy experience to the ISOC-DC Board and has been instrumental in its turn around. He would like to return to the Board to continue to push the Chapter make an impact in the greater Washington DC area. | |||
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rondasilva Ron da Silva] | |||
== Judith Hellerstein == | == Judith Hellerstein == | ||
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Judith Hellerstein is excited to run for a seat on the 2025 ISOC DC Board because she is passionate and deeply committed to ensuring that the Internet remains open, accessible, and available to all. Her goal is to help ISOC DC rebuild its institutional knowledge and restore its role as a leader in policy and technology issues in Washington, DC. She asks for your support in this effort. | |||
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhellerstein/ Judith Hellerstein] | |||
== Chelsea Horne ''(incumbent, co-Chair)'' == | |||
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Chelsea Horne is interested in continuing to serve on the Board of ISOC DC and working to advance the goals of the chapter. The chapter has made significant progress in the last year, and she looks forward to helping carry on the Chapter's forward trajectory. Chelsea would continue to work on hosting events that address the critical and urgent internet policy questions of the moment, engaging both the local and global internet communities. | |||
Chelsea is a Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University, where she is also a faculty fellow at the Internet Governance Lab and affiliate faculty at the Khan Cyber Institute. Chelsea holds a Ph.D. in Communication with a focus area on media, technology, and democracy. Her areas of research encompass communication, privacy, internet governance, AI policy, digital culture, and information integrity. | |||
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelseahorne/ Chelsea Horne] | |||
== Mike Godwin == | == Mike Godwin ''(incumbent)'' == | ||
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Mike Godwin has been working in internet law and policy since the beginning of his career as a lawyer. He was the first employee at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a staff counsel, and later served as a staff attorney for the Center for Democracy and Technology. At CDT, then later as Senior Technology Counsel and as legal director of Public Knowledge, Mike developed testimony, met with regulators and staff, and supervised strategic litigation related to copyright and technological protection measures. He leveraged his experience as a supervisory technology counsel in his role as general counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia). In his roles at Public Knowledge, at the Wikimedia Foundation, and at Internews, Mike also provided legal research, insight, and support regarding human-resources, employment, and labor law. Mike is a frequently published author on technology-law matters, with a full range of articles written both for legal accuracy and for accessibility for non-law-trained audiences. More recently Mike have expanded his work into Trust & Safety best practices and support, and has founded the government-relations function at a Privacy-Enhancing-Technology (PET) startup, Anonym Inc. The common theme of all his professional work has been a focus on advancing empowerment and protections both for all individuals and for non-profit organizations and for-profit companies whose mission goals include advancement of ISOC's vision of an open internet. | |||
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgodwin1/ Mike Godwin] | |||
== Courtney Radsch == | == Courtney Radsch == | ||
Revision as of 18:53, 27 February 2025
Candidate information for Council / Board election 2025
Joe Catapano
Joe Catapano is the Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the North America region at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); he also oversees ICANN’s academic engagement at the global level. In this capacity, Joe connects members of the private sector, civil society, government, academia, the technical community, and end users with ICANN’s work in the global Internet governance space, as well as its policy development processes. Prior to ICANN, Joe was a Communications Officer at the United Nations Foundation where he worked on US-UN relations, peacekeeping, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has extensive experience in the nonprofit and private sectors, previously holding strategic communications roles at Pfizer, Inc. and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Joe obtained his MA in Political Science from American University in Washington, DC, and his BA in Communications from Quinnipiac University. He is based in the Washington, DC Metro Area.
Jon Conradt (Treasurer)
Jon Conradt is an AI researcher, recently at Amazon AWS and currently working on a startup. He has volunteered as the ISOC-DC treasurer for the last year, which included attending and participating in council meetings. As the treasurer Jon has organized the Chapter's bank accounts, paid invoices, and completed grant paperwork. Jon wants to see the ISOC-DC chapter have an enlarged and reinvigorated impact on this area and via the Chapter's interactions with the U.S. federal government staff on US and global access.
Ron da Silva (incumbent, co-Chair)
Ron da Silva, current co-Chair of the Chapter, is an executive leader, international board member and internet technology expert with years of proven business experience, culminating in senior executive leadership. He is experienced leading internet engineering, architecture, and operations; building internet infrastructures and data centers; and advancing corporate and internet governance; providing management consulting and investment advice. He is an NACD certified Board Director with experience on the Boards of Chartway Credit Union, The Data Center Center Coalition, ICANN, CertifiedTrue and other non-profit Boards. He is a regular participant in ISOC-DC for more than twenty (20+) years. He brings financial, technical, governance and policy experience to the ISOC-DC Board and has been instrumental in its turn around. He would like to return to the Board to continue to push the Chapter make an impact in the greater Washington DC area.
Judith Hellerstein
Judith Hellerstein is excited to run for a seat on the 2025 ISOC DC Board because she is passionate and deeply committed to ensuring that the Internet remains open, accessible, and available to all. Her goal is to help ISOC DC rebuild its institutional knowledge and restore its role as a leader in policy and technology issues in Washington, DC. She asks for your support in this effort.
Chelsea Horne (incumbent, co-Chair)
Chelsea Horne is interested in continuing to serve on the Board of ISOC DC and working to advance the goals of the chapter. The chapter has made significant progress in the last year, and she looks forward to helping carry on the Chapter's forward trajectory. Chelsea would continue to work on hosting events that address the critical and urgent internet policy questions of the moment, engaging both the local and global internet communities.
Chelsea is a Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University, where she is also a faculty fellow at the Internet Governance Lab and affiliate faculty at the Khan Cyber Institute. Chelsea holds a Ph.D. in Communication with a focus area on media, technology, and democracy. Her areas of research encompass communication, privacy, internet governance, AI policy, digital culture, and information integrity.
Mike Godwin (incumbent)
Mike Godwin has been working in internet law and policy since the beginning of his career as a lawyer. He was the first employee at the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a staff counsel, and later served as a staff attorney for the Center for Democracy and Technology. At CDT, then later as Senior Technology Counsel and as legal director of Public Knowledge, Mike developed testimony, met with regulators and staff, and supervised strategic litigation related to copyright and technological protection measures. He leveraged his experience as a supervisory technology counsel in his role as general counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia). In his roles at Public Knowledge, at the Wikimedia Foundation, and at Internews, Mike also provided legal research, insight, and support regarding human-resources, employment, and labor law. Mike is a frequently published author on technology-law matters, with a full range of articles written both for legal accuracy and for accessibility for non-law-trained audiences. More recently Mike have expanded his work into Trust & Safety best practices and support, and has founded the government-relations function at a Privacy-Enhancing-Technology (PET) startup, Anonym Inc. The common theme of all his professional work has been a focus on advancing empowerment and protections both for all individuals and for non-profit organizations and for-profit companies whose mission goals include advancement of ISOC's vision of an open internet.
Courtney Radsch
- Details forthcoming
Nii Simmonds
- Details forthcoming
Steven Williams
- I have been a member of ISOC since 1998 with four chapters. Onterio and Los Angeles California. Dulles, Virginia (Loudoun County) and Washington D.C. As the Senior Engineer for a large IT Consulting firm in DMV for 20 years, I have supported numerous non-profits with their operations and mission, every Governor in America from 2002-2010 through the Hall States building. I spent four years with the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee as a technical advisor for Polycom to the committee. This afforded me the opportunity to work with members of Congress and led to me bringing in the first high-speed internet access to the Hart Senate building in 2001
- I have spent the last 5 years leading the effort to bridging the digital divide across America from a project in Baltimore with ISOC-DC to National Juneteenth Observance Foundation's efforts in Los Angeles, CA., Houston, TX., and Las Vegas, NV. (Soul City WiFi)with local non-profits.
- As President of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF) I was the primary advocator for America's 12th National Holiday and I did incorporate ISOC -DC and the .US TLD in the drive to gather 1.5 million petition signatures for Juneteenth to be delivered to Congress
- I believe that ISOC-DC can be a powerful voice and advocator for Broadband progress and Internet Technology that will not only affect Washington D.C. but all of America.
- https://www.urfixed.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/urfixed/