Secretariat
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The DPLA Secretariat was established in December 2010 to coordinate the DPLA initiative. The Secretariat is based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. To get in touch with the Secretariat as a whole, please use our contact form.
Maura Marx
Director and Berkman Center Fellow
Maura is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and has been responsible for driving the agenda and community-building efforts of the Secretariat since its inception. Marx was Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, an organization funded by the Sloan Foundation that helped lay the foundation for DPLA through advocacy and demonstration projects. Previously, she was responsible for starting the Boston Public Library’s Digital Services Program. Before coming to work in libraries, she lived and worked in Europe for organizations including the Guggenheim Museum (Salzburg), Warner Bros. Austria, and Amadeus, Inc. in strategic planning, technology planning, development and public relations. She received an MSLIS from Simmons College, an MA in Italian from Middlebury College, and a BA in German from the University of Notre Dame.
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Rebekah Heacock
Project Coordinator
Rebekah has contributed to a number of projects since joining the Berkman Center staff in 2010, including the OpenNet Initiative, Blogging Common, and the Center’s review of transparency and accountability in ICANN. Her work at the Center focuses on issues related to access to information, technology policy, and online freedom of expression. She has a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, where she studied the role of digital communications technology in political and economic development, and a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Kansas.
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David O’Brien
Project Coordinator
David joined the Berkman Center staff as a project coordinator in February 2011. David has been contributing legal and policy research to a number of Berkman projects and publications since 2009, including the Citizen Media Law Project, Global Network Initiative, the Law Lab, and the ICANN Accountability and Transparency review process, among others. David holds a J.D. from Northeastern University and a B.S. in economics and business administration. While in law school, David held positions in the Copyright, Trademark, New Media & Entertainment department at Fish & Richardson, at Inverness Medical Innovations’ in-house legal department, and with the Hon. Judith Dein at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
Research Assistant
Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey joined the Berkman Center as a 2011 Summer Intern working on the DPLA and iLaw projects. Before joining the Center, he wrote the London, Cambridge, Canterbury, and Brighton sections of the 2010 Let’s Go travel guides. He is a Junior at Harvard College studying American and British History and Literature. Outside of class, he is the music editor of the Harvard Crimson, and a performer in several bands on campus.
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Kenny Whitebloom
Research Assistant
Kenny joined Berkman in 2011 as a research assistant for the DPLA planning initiative. Prior to Berkman, Kenny contributed to projects at WGBH’s Media Library and Archive, including the Boston Local TV News Project and OpenVault. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and he holds a BA in History and Italian from Vassar College.
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Alessandra Morgan
Research Assistant
Alessandra joined the Berkman Center in 2012 as a research assistant for the DPLA initiative. Outside of Berkman, she spends time running the GSLIS Media Lab and GSLIScast (a library-oriented podcast) at Simmons College, where she is currently completing her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science. She also has a BFA in Sculpture & Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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