About Brian Rowe
- By Brian Rowe
Brian Rowe in photo by yospyn cropped
Short Bio:
Brian Rowe is a professor and techie currently working at Northwest Justice Project at the National Technology Assistance Project Coordinator, and teaching at the University of Washington and Seattle University. He is also the founder of Freedom for IP.
Brian has worked at several nonprofits including Public Knowledge, as a Google Public Policy Fellow, working on copyright and FCC issues and at Creative Commons as a legal clerk on a public interest law foundation grant, working on public domain and noncommercial use in copyright.
Brian currently serves on the Washington State Access to Justice Board’s Technology Committee, and is an alumnus of Students for Free Culture. Brian also wrote a mock trial for the Future of the Law Institute employed by high school students learning about fair use of music and bloggers’ rights and helped organize the Seattle Law of the Commons Seminar.
Brian has a background in information technology. He holds a B.S. in Informatics and B.A. in Political Science, both from University of Washington, and a J.D. from Seattle University. Brian teaches Policy, Law, and Ethics in Information Management at the University of Washington’s Information School. Connect with Brian online at http://brianrowe.org or through Twitter or Identi.ca (user name Sarterus).
When not voraciously reading mythology, Neil Gaiman, Nietzsche, or philosophy, Brian enjoys Rodin’s sculpture, coffee, industrial music, ancient Egypt, chess, not watching TV, sushi, civil disobedience and Chado (the Japanese tea ceremony).
I also offer private chess lessons and do social media consulting.
CV Online:
Brian Rowe CV (updated March 2009)
