Students for Free Culture (SFC) is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. SFC chapters exist at over 40 colleges and universities around the world.

Students for Free Culture was founded by two Swarthmore students after they sued voting-machine manufacturer Diebold for abusing copyright law in 2003. SFC  has collaborated with Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Downhill Battle, and other free software and media reform groups.

To contact us, e-mail us at board@freeculture.org, or visit the Contact page.

Board of Directors

• Kevin Driscoll (MIT) Email

  Kevin Driscoll is a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Prior to this return to academia, he spent three years teaching Computer Science and Mathematics at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School. Kevin is a frequent collaborator with internet-based artist Claire Chanel and a hip-hop dj responsible for Gold Chain and Todo Mundo events. http://kevindriscoll.info

  Kevin Donovan (Georgetown) Email

  Kevin Donovan is a rising junior at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, majoring in Science, Technology & International Affairs with a certificate in International Development. He started the Georgetown chapter of SFC and has worked on technology policy issues at the World Bank’s infoDev program and is currently working on an OpenCourseWare pilot program. He writes about technology policy at Techdirt, his personal blog, and on Twitter.

• Christina Ducruet (Brown University) Email

  Christina Ducruet is a Modern Culture and Media concentrator at Brown University where she founded Brown Free Culture in Spring 2007 in reaction to the RIAA law suits on Brown’s campus and other campuses throughout the country. Christina has coordinated with the Digital Freedom campaign to bring a panel event to Brown’s campus and has also worked closely with the global organization, helping to coordinate volunteer efforts, manage press, and foster relationships with other organizations such as the Digital Freedom Campaign and EDUCAUSE.

  Parker Higgins (New York University) Email

  Parker Higgins is entering his senior year at New York University’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study.  He is the president of the NYU chapter of SFC.  Stemming from his previous work with the Participatory Culture Foundation, he runs the occasionally updated internet TV channels Free Culture TV and Yes We’re Open.  This summer he is volunteering for Creative Commons.

• Ben Moskowitz (UC Berkeley) Email

  Ben Moskowitz co-founded the SFC@Berkeley chapter of Students for Free Culture and created a seminar on the cultural dimensions of piracy. He also co-organized the Free Culture 2008 Conference and the Open Video Conference in NYC. He is currently a student of Mandarin at NYU SCPS and serves as the general coordinator of the Open Video Alliance.

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Advisor

Elizabeth Stark is the founder of the Harvard University chapter of Students for Free Culture. She went to Brown University and is currently a student at Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she conducts research for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is an Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law Technology, and has worked as Teaching Fellow for courses in Cyberlaw, Electronic Music, and Internet and Society. She has collaborated with organizations such as the EFF, Creative Commons, and iCommons. Elizabeth speaks French, German, and Portuguese and has lived and worked in places such as Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Singapore. She is highly interested in the impact of technology on digital culture, and is (semi-)obsessed with electronic music.

Board Alumni

• Gavin Baker
• Brendan Ballou
• Fred Benenson
• Nelson Pavlosky
• Karen Rustad

Other officers/volunteers

• Chief Web Wrangler: Asheesh Laroia (Johns Hopkins University alumnus) Email

  Asheesh Laroia received a M.S. in computer science at the Johns Hopkins University in 2007. He received his B.A. in cognitive science from JHU. In 2004, he filed a deposition in the Diebold lawsuit that first earned the student free culture movement coverage in the national media. A long-time participant in free software and free culture, he interned at Creative Commons in 2006.