Mark Caron
Mark Caron has spent his career playing a leading role in bringing mobile services to the mass-market; starting with digital wireless services in the 1990s, text messaging in the early 2000s, and now the mobile internet with his latest start-up, Snac, Inc. Prior to founding Snac, Mark was Founder/CEO of MobileSpring/Ztango (now part of Real Networks). Under his leadership, the company developed and deployed in 2001, the first inter-carrier text messaging network, enabling messages to travel cross-network and kicking off the explosion in text messaging. After merging with Ztango, Mark as CEO led the company in offering a range of messaging and mobile content services to nearly all tier 1 and tier 2 US carriers. Before MobileSpring/Ztango, Mark was a co-founder and lead marketing executive at Omnipoint Communications, the first GSM carrier in the Northeast (now part of T-Mobile). Mark started his wireless career at Ericsson as a Product Manager, after working in information systems and telecommunications at GE. He has an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Kevin Curnin
Kevin J. Curnin is Partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, and Director of Stroock’s Public Service Project in New York. As Director, he is responsible for the overall management of the program, including advising and assisting associates and partners with their pro bono litigation and transactional work. As a litigator, Kevin also carries his own pro bono caseload. During Kevin’s tenure, he and the Public Service Project have won numerous awards from city, state, and national educational and non-profit organizations. Prior to his March 2001 appointment as the Project’s first Attorney Director, Kevin spent more than five years handling a wide range of commercial litigation matters for Stroock. His areas of experience include insurance, banking, securities and arbitration. Before joining Stroock, Kevin clerked for the Hon. Loretta A. Preska, USDJ for the Southern District of New York. Previous to his legal career, Kevin was a teacher and a journalist.
Susan Fryberger
Susan Fryberger is Vice President of Development at Americans for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, where she oversees the organization's fundraising efforts, including the annual Gala for the Health and Dignity of Women.
With a background in fundraising for women's and human rights, and environmental and reproductive health issues, Susan has 25 years of advocacy-related development experience. Before joining Americans for UNFPA in July, 2010, Susan consulted with a number of advocacy and health-related organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund (where she also worked in the mid-90’s), the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and Global Health Partners. Prior to consulting, she was vice president of development at the Ms. Foundation for Women, and development director at Human Rights First and Population Communications International. Susan began her career at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She holds a B.S. in French and business from Pennsylvania State University.
Gretchen Kuhner
Gretchen Kuhner has worked on issues of migrant human rights in Mexico for over a decade. As the legal coordinator for the NGO, Sin Fronteras, she worked with refugees and migrants and helped establish the first NGO detention project in Mexico City. Between 2005-2010 she worked as a consultant for local and international organizations and foundations concentrating on women and migration, human trafficking and child migrants in transit through Mexico. In 2010 she co-founded the Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI), an NGO that will focus on research and advocacy efforts to improve the migration experiences of women in Mexico, including women in communities of origin.
Howard Langer
Howard Langer has specialized in complex commercial litigation, particularly antitrust law, since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1977. He is the managing partner of Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C. Howard also teaches antitrust law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2009 he was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Competition Law and Policy at Oxford. He was lead counsel in Faloney v. Wachovia Bank,which recovered $150 million for primarily elderly victims of telemarketing fraud. Checks representing a complete recovery of all damages were mailed directly to over 800,000 victims of fraud without the need to file claims. Recently, Howard began specializing in the area of antitrust law relating to patents in the pharmaceutical industry, in particular the Hatch Waxman Act, which seeks to coordinate patent and drug regulatory law. His firm has been dedicated to law in the public interest. This year his firm was awarded the Social Justice Award of the Jewish Social Policy Network. In 2006, he and his colleagues were the recipients of the Equal Justice Award of Community Legal Services. The firm’s commercial/public interest model was featured in the Spring, 2007 issue of the Penn Law Journal.
Beth Lyon
Professor Beth Lyon directs the Villanova University School of Law Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic. Her clinic serves indigent migrant workers in employment and immigration matters. Professor Lyon's scholarship includes articles on migration law, immigrant worker rights, and human rights law relating to poverty alleviation. Professor Lyon holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and a Masters of Science from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Before starting the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic at Villanova, she was an attorney with Human Rights First and a Practitioner-in-Residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law, American University. She is a member of the District of Columbia, New York and Pennsylvania bar associations, and serves on the boards of directors of Friends of Farmworkers, Latina & Latino Critical Theory, Inc., and the Society of American Law Teachers.
Patricia Juan Pineda
Patricia Juan Pineda is a labor lawyer in Mexico for the Federation of Independent Unions. Her law firm represents independent unions and individuals with labor complaints. In addition, Pati has advocated nationally regarding labor and human rights legislation. She has also been a human rights consultant in various capacities and worked for the state in the defense of women's and labor rights. In 2005, Pati was selected for the Columbia University Human Rights Advocates Program. Prior to her legal career, she worked as a design professional, a maquila factory worker on the US-Mexican border, and as a undocumented migrant in the United States.
David Silversmith
David Silversmith is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner with Morgan Stanley. David has previously volunteered at the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Site, which provides free tax preparation and financial education to low-and moderate-income residents in lower Manhattan. David is a resident of Midtown Manhattan and has previously been a member of Community Board Three where he served on the Housing, Parks, and Economic Development Committees. David is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a second BS in Finance and is currently studying for his MBA at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
Rebecca Smith
Rebecca Smith is the Coordinator of the Immigrant Workers' Justice Program at the National Employment Law Project (NELP). Since graduating from the University of Washington School of Law, she has worked representing low-wage and immigrant workers on employment issues. Rebecca has written, testified, litigated and lectured extensively on immigrant workers’ employment rights, and wage and hour and unemployment insurance law.
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