About the Lab

Who we are

The people at the Library Lab.

Anastasia Aizman Developer & designer

Anastasia just came here to say that she's fairly certain everyone is mispronouncing the word "academia".

John Bowers Research Associate

John works as a research associate for Professor Zittrain. He likes cooking, statistics, and historical nonfiction, and once legally named his pet cat "Bitcoin" after losing a bet.

email: jobowers@law.harvard.edu
github: john-bowers

Brennan Chesley Developer

Brennan has lived in 4 states and 2 countries. He's had a wide variety of professional experience, including making coffee, writing programs to help people make coffee, and never-graduating from the Recurse Center in between. He currently works on the h2o project.

email: bchesley@law.harvard.edu
github: holtchesley

Rebecca Cremona Developer

Becky is into the relationship between matter and meaning. She presently spends most of her time inducing electrons to do her bidding; in the past she’s studied liturgical gesture, tried to make quantum cryptography work, and tended sheep.

email: rcremona@law.harvard.edu
twitter: @RebeccaCremona

Jack Cushman Senior Developer

Jack is an attorney, developer, and tinkerer. He once built a working web server using only a Perl script, a paperclip, and a pack of bubblegum.

Paul Deschner Developer

Paul swims, skis, speaks multiple languages, and likes Finnish literature. He's worked at Harvard since 1990.

email: deschner@law.harvard.edu

Kelly Fitzpatrick Research Associate

Kelly is an open access and digital collections specialist with an affinity for coffee, hedgehogs, and glam rock.

Andy Silva Developer

Though Andy has worked with the Harvard Law School Library off-and-on for almost twenty years, his professional experience is unusually broad. He helped maintain the Federal Reserve Bank's check processing infrastructure, worked with many restaurants, nightclubs, and bars as a classically trained chef and bouncer, worked in code-level support for an IBM network performance suite, and even worked as a 35mm movie projectionist. He is currently a developer working primarily on Caselaw Access Project's back end, and a student of Interactive Design.

email: asilva@law.harvard.edu
twitter: @SomeInterwebDev

Clare Stanton Communications & Outreach

Clare is a MLIS student who loves art but always finds herself distracted by poor signage in museums. She used to run a rowdy college radio station and has made a vow to never be a librarian who shushes.

email: cstanton@law.harvard.edu
twitter: @clare__stanton

Ben Steinberg DevOps

Ben has been a bookseller, an editorial assistant, and a cataloger, but the largest part of his work life has been as a reference librarian in a public library, where he was also a shop steward and treasurer of his local. Since then, he's become a software developer, at first in support of Harvard's open-access policies at the Office for Scholarly Communication; he now works on the infrastructure for all of LIL's projects.

email: bsteinberg@law.harvard.edu
github: bensteinberg

Adam Ziegler Director

Adam is a lawyer and freethrow champion. He once made an opposing lawyer cry during trial...in a good way. His favorite book is Clovis Crawfish and His Friends.

Jonathan Zittrain Harvard Faculty and Law School Library Director

JZ is a proud dog owner. Oh, and he directs the Law School Library, co-created the Berkman Center, is an EFF board member, and is faculty in the Law School, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Kennedy School.

email: a2jz@law.harvard.edu
website: http://jz.org
twitter: @zittrain

Collaborators

Friends and fellow travelers.

Zena Agha Summer Fellow

Neel Agrawal Summer Fellow

Kendra Albert former Research Associate

Samantha Bates former Research Associate

Matthew Battles Associate Director at metaLAB

Karen Beck Manager, Historical & Special Collections

Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Cyberspace explorer

Anna Bialas LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Rachel Binx

Carrie Bly 2018 Summer Fellow

Zachary Bodnar Digitization Specialist

Tom Boone Faculty Services Librarian

Hannah Brinkmann 2018 Summer Fellow

Annie Cain Developer

June Casey Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication

Stephen Chapman Manager, Digital Strategies for Collections

Deborah Chase Digitization Specialist

Franny Corry 2018 Summer Fellow

Kyle K. Courtney Copyright Advisor and Program Manager, HL Office for Scholarly Communication

Emma Cushman Contributing developer

Julian DeGroot-Lutzner 2018 Summer Intern

Claire DeMarco Research Librarian

Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America makes the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums freely available to the world.

Alexandra Dolan-Mescal 2018 Summer Fellow

Kim Dulin former Library Innovation Lab Director

Lindsay Dumas former Digital Projects Archivist

Frances Duncan Contributing designer

Kate Edrington Digitization Specialist

Jay Edwards Research Fellow

Jake Effoduh Summer Fellow

Shira Feldman 2018 Summer Fellow

Antonio Fernandes

Kerri Fleming Digital Projects Archivist

Gerard Fowke Harvard Law School Library Intern

Sara Frug Summer Fellow

Ben Gaucherin

Sarah Glassmeyer Research Fellow

Jeff Goldenson Former LIL Designer

Kendra Greene 2018 Summer Fellow

Hans Christian Gregerson LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Casey Gruppioni Developer

Keith Hartwig FK Productions

Harvard Library Lab

Alison Head

Evelin Heidel 2018 Summer Fellow

Sha Hwang

Michael Jimenez

Brett Johnson Outreach and Support

Dan Jones Digital Media Producer, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Rachel Karasick Summer Fellow

Jane Kelly Historical & Special Collections Assistant

Alisa Kolot Sound artist, musician

Ilya Kreymer Summer Fellow

Caitlin Laughlin Perma Admin

Doyung Lee LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Erica Leeman former Digitization Specialist

Greg Leppert Developer

Dustin Lewis former Project Manager (FTL, H2O) and now Senior Researcher at Harvard Law School's PILAC

Andrew MacTaggart Senior Digitization Specialist

Emily Magagnosc Digitization Specialist

Petar Maymounkov

Kate Mays LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Timothy McAllister Reference Librarian, Perma.cc

Muira McCammon Summer Fellow

MetaLAB at Harvard Exploring and expanding the frontiers of networked culture in the arts and humanities

Matt Miller Summer Fellow

Miglena Minkova Summer Fellow

Loren Newman Intern

Alexander Nwala Summer Fellow

Margaret Peachy Curator of Digital Collections

Matt Phillips

Michelle Quin 2018 Summer Intern

Tim Riser LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Lori Schulsinger Collection Development Coordinator

Satvik Shukla Summer 2018 Intern

Carli Spina Emerging Technologies and Research Librarian

Sam Stites Machine Learning Engineer at Sentenai

Zach Tan LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Shailin Thomas Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Caleb Troughton

Tiff Tseng Summer Fellow

Tessa Walsh 2018 Summer Fellow

Caroline Walters Collection Development Librarian for U.S. Law

David Weinberger

Jordi Weinstock Research Fellow

Jessamyn West Research Fellow

Reid Whitaker Summer Fellow

Dano Williams Designer

Suzanne Wones former Executive Director, Harvard Law School Library

Rosten Woo

Yunhan Xu Contributing statistician

Jessica Yurkofsky Creative Technologist at metaLAB

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