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For Immediate Release: June 6, 2000EFF Welcomes New Executive Director Shari SteeleCivil Liberties Attorney Returns EFF to its RootsContact:
Katina Bishop - EFF Communications Manager
Shari Steele - EFF Executive Director The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pleased to announce the return of attorney Shari Steele as our new Executive Director. Ms. Steele brings with her a rededication to the founding principles of the organization-- making sure that basic rights are protected in our increasingly digital world. She starts the job immediately and will relocate her family to the San Francisco area in July. "These issues are in my blood," says Steele. "I'm looking forward to working again with the EFF staff and board on getting the organization back to its roots, the cutting edge where technology and law collide." Shari returns to the EFF after a starting up a new non-profit called Bridges.org, which works on technology policy issues related to developing countries. She is a civil liberties attorney who worked for the EFF for eight years, most recently as Director of Legal Services. Steele was a driving force in many of EFF's precedent setting cases, including Steve Jackson Games, Bernstein vs. State, and ACLU vs. Reno II. Prior to joining EFF, she was an advocacy fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned her Masters of Law degree. John Gilmore, board member and co-founder of EFF, came out of retirement to serve as Interim Executive Director for three months while EFF looked for a permanent director. "Shari is not just the best candidate we could find -- she's the best we could imagine," he said. "Her years of experience working with our issues; her familiarity with our board, staff, and collaborators; and her straightforward and easygoing management style make it a pleasure to hand her the job." "Shari has been with the EFF for most of its life, so she is extremely experienced with both the organization and all the issues we deal with every day," said board chairman, Brad Templeton. "Plainly put, there's nobody else on the planet with her qualifications. We were extremely sorry when the call of being at the top of a new organization took her away from us, and we are thrilled to be able to win her back." EFF continues to pursue its long-term mission of educating the public, policymakers, and courts about the issues that arise when traditional expectations conflict with the new worlds created by computers and the Internet. The organization remains focused on civil liberties and civil responsibilities in cyberspace and continues to offer legal advice, referrals, and a large archive of current and historical online civil liberties information. Founded in 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) is a non- profit organization that actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world.
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