Council Election 2025/Candidates

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Candidates

Ron da Silva

  • I am an executive leader, international board member and internet technology expert with over thirty (30+) years of proven business experience, culminating in senior executive leadership.
  • 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.
  • NACD certified Board Director.
  • Board experience: Chartway Credit Union, The Data Center Coalition, ICANN, CertifiedTrue
  • Regular participant in ISOC-DC for more than twenty (20+) years.
  • Happy to bring my financial, technical, governance and policy experience to the ISOC DC Council to make an impact for our Chapter.
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/rondasilva/
  • https://twitter.com/ron2twit

Chelsea Horne

  • I am a Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University, where I am also a faculty fellow at the Internet Governance Lab. I hold a Ph.D. in Communication with a focus area on media, technology, and culture. My areas of research encompass communication, privacy, internet governance, AI policy, digital culture, and information integrity.
  • Currently, I am serving as Co-Convenor (Vice-President) of the ISOC-DC interim Council. During my short tenure and in collaboration with Joly MacFie, I have organized the two most recent ISOC-DC events: 1) a panel featuring internationally recognized experts, and 2) ISOC-DC’s Annual General Meeting. I have also represented the DC Council at ISOC events.
  • I’m standing for re-election as I am greatly involved with the reboot of ISOC-DC and I believe my continuity on the Council will help rebuild the institutional knowledge and history to bring back ISOC-DC to full force.
  • With its prime location in the nation’s capital, ISOC-DC has the opportunity to be at the forefront of internet policy conversations. As I did with the first edition of the Cyber Lecture Series “Innovation for Good: A Conversation on the Internet’s Future,” I would continue to work with ISOC-DC on fostering and hosting events that address the critical and urgent internet policy questions of the moment, engaging both the local and global internet communities. I also look forward to work with the new Council to forward the mission of ISOC.
  • https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/horne.cfm
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelseahorne/

Mike Godwin

  • I’ve been working in internet law and policy since the beginning of my career as a lawyer. I 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, I developed testimony, met with regulators and staff, and supervised strategic litigation related to copyright and technological protection measures. I leveraged my experience as a supervisory technology counsel in my role as general counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia). In my roles at Public Knowledge, at the Wikimedia Foundation, and at Internews, I also provided legal research, insight, and support regarding human-resources, employment, and labor law. I’m 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 I have expanded my work into Trust & Safety best practices and support, and I have founded the government-relations function at a Privacy-Enhancing-Technology (PET) startup, Anonym Inc. The common theme of all my 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.
  • I believe ISOC-DC is uniquely positioned to be a facilitator for high-quality expertise and advice to policymakers in Washington, DC. In this role, ISOC-DC can supplement and support Internet Society's work in promoting an open, strong, accessible, reliable, and secure internet. I also believe that ISOC-DC can contribute independently these goals by seeking DC-area targets of opportunity and building relationships with policymakers, particularly at the federal level.
  • Finally, I want to make sure that in the coming year ISOC-DC maximizes its success in rebooting and re-engagement as we recover from the loss of key leadership and from the general impact of the pandemic in disrupting our continuity and outreach efforts.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Godwin
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgodwin1/

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/
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