Amar Ashar

Amar Ashar is the Berkman Center's Program Coordinator, and serves on the Communications and Events team at the Center. Amar joined in 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, and The Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program.

Currently, Amar works on coordinating Berkman's Tuesday Luncheon Series, Berkman's 10th Anniversary Speaker Series, Berkman's 10th Anniversary Conference and Gala, taking place in May 2008, and these other events.

On campus, he works closely with other academic centers and departments at Harvard University and in the Boston/Cambridge area, as well as with student organizations such as the HLS Journal of Law and Technology and Harvard Free Culture.

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 Conscious Lifestyle, and was a teaching assistant for Virtual Worlds at the Harvard Extension School. 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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