Team

danah boyd (danahboyd)

danah is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. She's also a Fellow at the Harvard University Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society, advises corporations, speaks at industry conferences, and works as an academic researcher of online media and social networking. danah has a wealth of personal knowledge of fandom and subcultures on LiveJournal.

Jennifer Brady (legomymalfoy)

One of the Advisory Board's user-elected members, Jennifer volunteers for LJ Support. She's also an Admin of the Entries category and a SupportHelp in the General and Styles categories.

Esther Dyson (courtjesther)

As a former business owner, an active investor in start-ups in a number of emerging markets and both a for-profit and a not-for-profit philanthropist, Esther provides a rare and valuable perspective on the online world. With holdings in Eastern Europe and Asia, Esther travels frequently and speaks Russian well enough to follow board meetings there. She also has an interest in space and air travel, as well as health care information.

Brad Fitzpatrick (brad)

Brad kindly invented LiveJournal, all on his own. He was but a student at the University of Washington in Seattle when he came up with the platform. These days, he's a programmer, an employee of Google and he loves his motorcycle.

Zafar F. Khashimov (churkan)

One of the Advisory Board's user-elected members, Zafar is a staff writer at the Ren-TV channel. He was born in 1967, lives in Moscow, and is the founder of the "Rybka Debilarius" website. He's been a LiveJournal user since 2001, and he is the founder and moderator of the charitable LiveJournal community otdam_darom, one of the largest communities in the Cyrillic sector of LiveJournal.

Lawrence Lessig (lessig)

Lawrence is a professor at Stanford Law School, focusing on technology and copyright law. He has knowledge and gives guidance regarding freedom of speech and open source software. He's an author of books on internet culture and law, and sits on the boards of MAPLight and the Sunlight Foundation.

Suhel Seth (suhels)

Suhel Seth is the Managing Partner of Counselage India, a New Delhi-based branding consultancy. Suhel is a regular speaker at business, marketing and advertising industry events on commercial and social trends for the Indian consumer. He has published several papers on this topic, including "The Changing Indian Consumer." Suhel has recently been commissioned by Penguin India to write a book tentatively titled The Indian Mindset.