Susan P. Crawford
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Barack Obama
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's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She is a former Board Member of ICANN
ICANN
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, the founder of OneWebDay
OneWebDay
OneWebDay is an annual day of Internet celebration and awareness held on September 22. The stated goal of founder Susan P. Crawford is for OneWebDay to foster and make visible a global constituency that cares about the future of the Internet.- History :...
, and a legal scholar.
Wired magazine once referred to her as "the most powerful geek close to the president," and noted that previous to her work for the Administration
Presidency of Barack Obama
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, she was a "prolific blog
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ger," as well as a writer on subjects ranging from Net Neutrality
Network neutrality
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to NASA
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.
Early life
Crawford was born in 1963 and grew up in Santa MonicaSanta Mônica
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, where she attended Santa Monica High School
Santa Monica High School
Santa Monica High School, informally known as SAMOHI, is located in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 1884, it is one of the oldest high schools in the state....
, and played violin
Violin
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in the "Samohi" orchestra. According to her own website, she spent most of her time "hanging out in the band room" there. While at Yale
Yale University
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, Crawford was the principal violinist in the Yale Symphony Orchestra
Yale Symphony Orchestra
The Yale Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra at Yale University which performs in Yale's Woolsey Hall and tours internationally and domestically. The present Music Director is Toshiyuki Shimada.-History:...
and continues her daily practice and occasionally performs publicly.
Education and career
Crawford holds a B.A.Bachelor of Arts
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(summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D.
Juris Doctor
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from Yale University. She served as a law clerk
Law clerk
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for Judge
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Raymond J. Dearie
Raymond J. Dearie
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of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
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, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to become a professor.
After first teaching at Cardozo School of Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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in NYC, Crawford became a visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School
University of Michigan Law School
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in the fall of 2007. After visiting at Yale Law School
Yale Law School
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in the spring of 2008, she was admitted to the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School. On July 1, 2010 Crawford rejoined the faculty at Cardozo, and also commenced as a Visiting Research Collaborator at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton
Princeton University
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.
Internet activism
Crawford served as a member of the Board of Directors for ICANNICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...
from 2005-2008. In 2005 she founded OneWebDay - a global celebration of the Internet
Internet
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. She is known as a champion of net neutrality
Network neutrality
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, and has written on many other current policy issues.
Politics
Crawford and Kevin WerbachKevin Werbach
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served on the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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Review team in the Obama transition
Presidential transition of Barack Obama
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. In early 2009 Crawford was appointed the President's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. In October 2009 it was announced that she would step down when her one year sabbatical from the University of Michigan ends in January 2010.
External links
Video
- Speaker series with Susan Crawford on U.S. Telecommunications Policy Google video December 14, 2007.
- “Rethinking Broadband” Personal Democracy ForumPersonal Democracy ForumPersonal Democracy Forum is a website and annual conference that follows how the internet is changing politics, governance, and advocacy founded by Andrew Rasiej and co-Founder Micah Sifry.- Website :...
conference on Jun 4 2010.
Articles
- Transporting Communications Boston University Law Review, Volume 89 Number 3 - June 2009