Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford is the Visiting Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. She is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a columnist for Bloomberg View and Wired. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. Ms. Crawford was formerly a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008. She is one of Fast Company‘s Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); an IP3 Awardee (2010); and one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011). Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale, Washington, D.C.). In 2012 Yale University Press will publish her book, The Big Squeeze: The Crisis in American Communications. She will be teaching a Kennedy School course entitled “Solving Problems Using Digital Technology.”