Panelist Bios
Kimberly Christen
Kimberly Christen is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Ethnic Studies Department at Washington State University. Her research focuses on contemporary indigenous alliance-making globally, but with specific attention to Australia. She has worked collaboratively with the Warumungu community in Central Australia on a range of projects over the last ten years including an oral history and DVD, an educational website and a community digital archive (www.mukurtuarchive.org). She is currently working with the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies and Washington State University designing the Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal and digital archive (http://libarts.wsu.edu/plateaucenter/portalproject/). Her current academic research grows from this work and focuses on the intersection of digital technologies, museum spaces, intellectual property rights and heritage movements within indigenous communities and the global commons. Dr. Christen maintains a blog, Long Road (www.kimberlychristen.com), where she regularly addresses these issues and archives her publications and on-going projects.
Lori Driscoll
Lori Driscoll is an Associate University Librarian and Chair of Access Services for the University of Florida Smathers Libraries where she manages the functions of course reserves, circulation, interlibrary loan, stacks maintenance, and the remote storage facility. She earned her Master of Science in Library Studies from the Florida State University School of Information (1998). Prior to becoming Department Chair at the University of Florida, she was the Coordinator for Access Services at Santa Fe Community College and the Webmaster/Reference Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Library. She has taught undergraduate information studies courses through distance education, facilitates workshops on copyright and intellectual freedom, co-edits the Journal of Access Services, and publishes books and articles of interest to access services. She is the author of Electronic Reserve: A Manual and Guide for Library Staff Members (Haworth, 2003).
Jonathan Franklin
Jonathan Franklin joined the Gallagher Law Library in 1999 as Assistant Librarian for Library Services and was promoted to Associate Law Librarian in 2001. In addition to managing the library administration and circulation departments and sharing in reference duties, he is now responsible for database selection, licensing, and instructional technology planning for the law school. Jonathan also has written articles on information licensing and international law issues as well as having taught a course at the law school on Preservation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage. He earned his A.B., A.M. Anthropology and J.D. degrees from Stanford University and M.Libr. with a Certificate in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington. Prior to the University of Washington, he spent five years as a reference librarian and foreign law selector at the University of Michigan Law Library. In law school, he was a Senior Editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal and a Note Editor for the Stanford Law Review.
Preston Hardison
Preston Hardison is a natural resources and treaty rights policy analyst for the Tulalip Tribes of Washington, although the views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Tulalip Tribes or any other indigenous peoples. He was a fellow of EcoNet from 1993-1997, and has worked on several initiatives since the early 1990s to establish commons-based biodiversity information networks. He has worked on access and benefit sharing and other indigenous issues at the Convention on Biological Diversity since 1996, and for the past six years has represented the Tulalip Tribes at the CBD and WIPO. He is currently working on a tribal intellectual property code for the Tulalip Tribes, including an aboriginal copyright model. He has recently established a prototype database on traditional knowledge, livelihood, biodiversity and common property information issues at: www.culturalstories.net. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Debra Harry
Debra Harry is Kooyooee Dukaddo (Northern Paiute) from Pyramid Lake, Nevada. She serves as the Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB), a U.S.-based non-profit organization created to assist Indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. Internationally, Debra has advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). She has authored and co-authored papers that critique the application of intellectual property rights over Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge and genetic material. She is the Producer of the documentary film “The Leech and the Earthworm,” an IPCB/Yeast Directions production, which examines the globalized hunt for genes within Indigenous territories and features Indigenous activists from around the world. In 1997, she earned a master’s degree in community economic development from New Hampshire College, and is currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the University of Auckland School of Education. The IPCB is an Indigenous peoples’ organization created to assist Indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB has initiated a new program, the Emerging Indigenous Leaders Institute, a training program designed to nurture the development of new generations of Indigenous leadership. In June 2008 Debra co-developed and taught a 10-week on-line course titled “Protecting Cultural Property in an Age of Biocolonialism” for the Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange as part of the UCLA Extension Program.
Peter Jaszi
Peter Jaszi teaches domestic and international copyright law at the Washington College of Law of American University in Washington, D.C., where he also co-directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. Prof. Jaszi is an experienced copyright litigator and a frequent speaker to professional audiences in the United States and abroad. He also co-authors a standard copyright textbook, Copyright Law (Lexis, 7th ed., 2006). Alone and with Martha Woodmansee, he has written several articles on copyright history and theory; together they edited The Construction of Authorship, published by Duke University Press. In 1994, Prof. Jaszi was a member of the Librarian of Congress’ Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit, and in 1995 he helped to organize the Digital Future Coalition. He is a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and a member of the editorial board of its journal. In 2007, he received the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. Since 2005, Prof. Jaszi has been working with Prof. Patricia Aufderheide of the American University’s Center for Social Media on projects designed to promote the understanding of fair use by documentary filmmakers and other creators. In 2006-07, Professor Jaszi led an interdisciplinary research team, funded by the Ford Foundation, that investigated the connections between intellectual law and the traditional arts in Indonesia.
Eric Kansa
Eric Kansa has a background in anthropology, archaeology, and in open access data sharing for the field sciences. He is cofounder and former Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute, and led development of “Open Context”, an online system for sharing collections and field research in archaeology and natural history. This follows a position on the faculty of Harvard University, where he served as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor for the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and continued his education at Harvard University beginning in 1995. There, he earned his doctorate in 2001 and has focused research efforts on open dissemination strategies, information architectures for the social sciences, and intellectual property frameworks for online scholarship. Eric is currently Convener of the Society for American Archaeology’s Digital Data Interest Group.
Robert Leopold
Robert Leopold is director of the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives at the Smithsonian Institution and co-chair of the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records. At George Washington University, Robert teaches Digital Imaging for Museums: Policy and Practice, a course that builds on his experience managing digital imaging programs and creating online exhibits that support scholarly research and promote the repatriation of knowledge to source communities. He served as project director for the online exhibit Lakota Winter Counts, which received a Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (for Best Cultural Institution web site) and the U.N. World Summit Award (for Best E-Culture Web Site). Other recent projects include the digitization of 20,000 pages of archival manuscripts for the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana’s language revitalization programs. Robert has a special interest in how scholars and source communities negotiate access to culturally sensitive materials. He contributed to a discussion of this issue in the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (First Archivists Circle, 2006) and as co-sponsor of the symposium Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin and Intangible Cultural Heritage (Washington, DC, 2006). Robert serves on the Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct of the Society of American Archivists; the Committee on the Future of Print and Electronic Publishing of the American Anthropological Association; and the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative. Robert received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Indiana University in 1991.
Spencer Lilley
Spencer Lilley is the Kaihautu Maori (Maori Services Manager) for the Massey University Library system. He has twenty years of professional library experience in a range of academic and special libraries, and lectured in library and information science at Wellington College of Education (now part of Victoria University of Wellington). Spencer is his fifth year of study for his Doctor of Philosophy degree in the School of Maori and Multicultural Education at Massey University’s College of Education. His doctoral thesis focuses on the information seeking behaviours of Maori secondary school students, particularly how these vary according to the cultural context they are searching in. His thesis is due for completion in 2009. Spencer is of Maori, Samoan and European descent and his iwi (tribal) affiliations are to Te Atiawa, Muaupoko and Ngapuhi. Spencer’s professional interests include information literacy; information services delivery; indigenous knowledge systems and collection development; recruitment, retention and workforce planning strategies. Spencer has been a member of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa for over 20 years, including a year as the national President in 2001-2002. He is also an Honorary Life Member of Te Ropu Whakahau (Maori in Libraries and Information Management) and a foundation member of of the Pasifika Information Management Network.
Jamie Love
Jamie Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International, and Chair of Essential Inventions, the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, and a member of the MSF Working Group on Intellectual Property and the UNITAID Expert Group on Patent Pools. He advises a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, and is the author of a number of articles and monographs on innovation and intellectual property rights. In 2006, Knowledge Ecology International received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. He holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Kay Mathiesen
Kay Mathiesen received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine. She has taught philosophy at the University of Arizona, the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Montclair State University. She is currently an assistant professor in the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona. Her research and teaching focus on issues of Information Ethics and Policy. Her current research project concerns information rights in a global context. Her articles have appeared in Library Quarterly, Computers and Society, The Handbook for Information and Computer Ethics, The Annual Review of Law and Ethics, and Business Ethics Quarterly. She is co-founder and organizer of the Information Ethics Roundtable.
Martin Nakata
Martin Nakata is Chair of Australian Indigenous Education & Director of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney and Honorary Research Fellow Mitchell Library. He is the first Torres Strait Islander to receive a PhD in Australia. His current research work focuses on higher education curriculum areas, the academic preparation of Indigenous students, and Indigenous knowledge and library services. He has presented eighteen plenary and keynote addresses at national as well as international conferences in ten countries, and published various pieces on Indigenous Australians and education in various academic journals and books in Australia and abroad. His book, Disciplining the Savages-Savaging the Disciplines, was published in 2007 by Aboriginal Studies Press.
Janice Pilch
Janice Pilch is Associate Professor of Library Administration and Head, Slavic and East European Acquisitions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2001 she has researched and published on international copyright issues. Previously, Ms. Pilch served as Senior Librarian at the National Security Archive based at the George Washington University. From 2004-2006, Janice served as the Chair of OITP’s Copyright Advisory Subcommittee and remains a member. In 2002 she established a committee on copyright issues within the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for the purpose of extending copyright education and assistance to scholars and librarians in the field of Slavic studies, and continues to chair that committee. Janice is currently co-authoring a book on international copyright for librarians and educators. She is a graduate of Brown University, obtained her M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and completed doctoral coursework in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.
Loriene Roy
Loriene Roy received an MLS degree from the University of Arizona and worked as a reference librarian at the Yuma (Arizona) City-County Public Library. While a doctoral student, she worked in the Library Research Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in January 1987 where she teaches graduate “Public Libraries,” “Information Resources in the Humanities,” “Information Resources in the Social Sciences,” and “Library Instruction and Information Literacy.” Students in her classes follow a service-based learning model, designing and providing services for and with rural public libraries, small academic libraries, and libraries serving tribal communities. Loriene began her term as President-Elect of the American Library Association on in June 28, 2006, and was inaugurated as the 2007-2008 President of ALA at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Loriene serves on the Advisory boards/committees for El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros, the International Children’s Digital Library, the Sequoyah Research Center, and WebJunction.org. Her work is centered on developing and promoting library services and cultural heritage initiatives with and for indigenous populations.
Sezaneh Seymour
Sezaneh Seymour is Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Ecology and Terrestrial Conservation, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental Scientific Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Michael S. Shapiro
Michael S. Shapiro is an attorney specializing in domestic and international copyright issues. As the former General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Shapiro currently serves as Attorney-Advisor, Office of International and Legislative Affairs, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Prior to joining the USPTO, Dr. Shapiro was in private practice, counseling a diverse clientele in the commercial and nonprofit sectors. With Bruce A. Lehman, Dr. Shapiro helped to launch the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) and served as its first General Counsel. Within the IIPI, Dr. Shapiro directed the “World Museums and Economic Development” project. The resource materials resulting from the project are available on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Dr. Shapiro has written extensively and lectured widely on a broad range of legal and cultural topics. He is the co-author of A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark (1999), the editor of The Museum: A Reference Guide (1990), a contributing author to Copyright’s Role in Economic and Social Development (2001) and to International Intellectual Property: the European Community and Eastern Europe (1992). Dr. Shapiro earned the Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and the JD from the George Washington University Law School.
Ramesh Srinivasan
Ramesh Srinivasan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies, GSEIS, at UCLA. His research interests and doctoral seminars include: the interactions between new media technologies and global cultures and communities; the use of design and social-science perspectives to analyze the impacts of information technology on global education, health, economics, politics, governance, and social movements, and infrastructure knowledge management, web 2.0, semantic web, and information systems, ontologies; information technology and international development; indigenous and local knowledge systems and new media; digital libraries, digital museums, and applied systems around such areas as public health, microfinance, e-governance, distance learning, and knowledge management. Ramesh earned a doctorate in design from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Laboratory and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Michael Taft
Michael Taft is the Head of the Archive at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Taft has a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland (1977), and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Alberta (1996). He has taught folklore at a number of Canadian universities. He was a Laura Boulton Senior Research Scholar at the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University. More recently, Taft has been university archivist and head of special collections at the University of Northern British Columbia, archivist for the Vermont Folklife Center, and the curator of the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina. Taft has authored or co-authored sixteen books on folklore and oral history. He has been the principle investigator for a number of American Folklife Center projects, including the Save Our Sounds digitization initiative financed by the Save America’s Treasures fund. He is the convener of the Archives and Libraries Section of the American Folklore Society, the co-director of the Ethnographic Thesaurus (an American Folklore Society initiative financed by the Mellon Foundation), and a member of the board of the William A. Wilson Folklore Archive at Brigham Young University, among other responsibilities.
Dovie Thomason
Dovie Thomason is an award-winning storyteller, recording artist and author, recognized internationally for her ability to take her listeners back to the “timeless place” that she first “visited” as a child, hearing old Indian stories from her Kiowa Apache and Lakota relatives, especially her Grandma Dovie and her Dad. From their voices, she first heard the voices of the Animal People and began to learn the lessons they had to teach her. For these were teaching stories that took the place of punishment or scolding, showing her the values that her people respect and wanted to pass on to her. Her love of stories and culture set her on a path to listen and learn and share the stories—to give people a clearer understanding of the often misunderstood, often invisible, cultures of the First Nations of North America.
Rebecca Tsosie
Rebecca Tsosie is a Professor of Law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Executive Director Indian Legal Program, Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology and Affiliate Professor, American Indian Studies Program. Professor Tsosie, J.D., has served as Executive Director of the top ranked Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University since 1996. Professor Tsosie has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy, and cultural rights. Professor Tsosie is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism. She has used this work as a foundation for her newest research, which deals with Native rights to genetic resources. Professor Tsosie, who is of Yaqui descent, has also worked extensively with tribal governments and organizations. She serves as a Supreme Court Justice for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation. Professor Tsosie speaks at several national conferences each year on topics related to tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and tribal rights to environmental and cultural resources. Professor Tsosie was appointed as a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar in 2005. Prior to this, she held the title of Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics. She is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology and an Affiliate Professor for the American Indian Studies Program. She joined the faculty of the College of Law in 1993 and teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory. She is the co-author with Robert Clinton and Carole Goldberg of a federal Indian law casebook entitled American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System. Tsosie was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and received the American Bar Association’s “2002 Spirit of Excellence Award.” She is the 2006 recipient of the “Judge Learned Hand Award” for Public Service.
Wend Wendland
Mr. Wend Wendland is Head of the Traditional Creativity, Cultural Expressions and Cultural Heritage Section of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva, Switzerland, and the Deputy Director of its Global Intellectual Property Issues Division. He was a founding member of this Division at its establishment in late 1997. Before joining WIPO, Mr. Wendland was in private law practice for eight years in Johannesburg, South Africa as a partner of the law firm Webber Wentzel. He practiced law in the fields of copyright and related rights, competition law and media/broadcasting law. He also taught copyright and trademark law part time at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Mr. Wendland obtained his BA and LLB degrees in 1984 and 1986 respectively (University of Cape Town), and a LLM degree in copyright, trademark and competition law in 1996 (University of South Africa). He was admitted as an Attorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1989. Mr. Wendland has published widely in the fields of copyright and related rights, competition law, media law, cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.
Greg Younging
Greg Young-Ing is a Member of Opsakwayak Cree Nation in Nothern Manitoba. He has a Masters of Arts Degree The Institute of Canadian Studies at Carleton University and a Masters of Publishing Degree from the Canadian Centre for Studies in Writing & Publishing at Simon Fraser University, and has a Ph.D. from The Department of Educational Studies at University Of British Columbia. He is currently program Coordinator and Professor of Indigenous Studies at University of British Columbia Okanagan. He has worked for The Royal Commission On Aboriginal Peoples, Assembly Of First Nations, Committee Of Inquiry Into Indian Education, Native Women’s Association Of Canada, and from 1990-2003 was the Managing Editor of Theytus Books. Some of his works have been published in: Indigenous Affairs Journal, Copenhagen, 2003, Prairie Fire Literary Journal – Fall 2001, (Ad)Dressing Our Words: Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literature and Art”, 2001, and the Australian Journal of Canadian Studies, 1996. He is a former Member of the Canada Council Aboriginal Peoples Committee on the Arts (June 1997-June 2001) and the British Columbia Arts Council (July 1999-July 2001) and is currently Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus of Creator’s Rights Alliance (appointed May 2002).
