Amar Ashar

Phone: (617) 384 9109

Amar Ashar is the Berkman Center's Program Coordinator, and serves on its core staff. Amar joined the Berkman Center in February 2007, and has helped to organize various conferences, symposiums, lectures, teaching programs, and meetings, including Beyond Broadcast 2007, The Internet & Society Conference 2007, Internet as a Public Good Symposium, The Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program, Berkman's 10th Anniversary Speaker Series, Berkman's 10th Anniversary Conference and Gala, Berkman's Tuesday Luncheon Series, United States v. Microsoft: 10 Years Later, Internet & Politics 2008: Moving People and Ideas, From Social Networks to Social Movements, Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection, Google Books Search Settlement Open Workshop, Cluetrain@10, Secrecy: Film Screening and Roundtable, Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities, and these other events.

Outside of the Berkman Center, he serves on the Board of Advisors for WZBC 90.3 FM, is a technology and development consultant for the social entrepreneurship organization Sparkseed, and was a teaching assistant for the Virtual Worlds course at the Harvard Extension School. In 2009, he was a StartingBloc Fellow for social innovation. Amar graduated with a degree in Economics and Philosophy from Boston College in 2005, and was previously an intern at the Software Freedom Law Center.

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