[bestbits] Fwd: Personal Announcement: departing CDT this week, starting at New America's Open Technology Institute next week

[Kevin Bankston]

Looks like I sent to the old "Best Bits" address yesterday, pardon.

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> From: Kevin Bankston <kbankston at cdt.org>
> Subject: Personal Announcement: departing CDT this week, starting at New America's Open Technology Institute next week
> Date: November 14, 2013 10:30:18 AM EST
> To: "bestbits at lists.igcaucus.org Bits" <bestbits at lists.igcaucus.org>, "irp at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org" <irp at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org>, "webwewant at googlegroups.com" <webwewant at googlegroups.com>
> 
> Hello, IRP, Best Bits and Web We Want folk--and apologies for cross-posting, I'm going to be hitting a lot of lists with this announcement today:
> 
> As some of you have already heard, I am leaving my position as CDT's Free Expression Director effective tomorrow, and starting at the New America Foundation on Monday as the Policy Director of the Open Technology Institute, where my new email address will be bankston at opentechinstitute.org (and where my new office will be just down the hall from Gene Kimmelman's, another very active participant in these lists).
> 
> An announcement about the move is here: http://newamerica.net/pressroom/2013/press_release_new_america_foundation_s_open_technology_institute_announces_kevin_bank.  (The original start date listed in the announcement, this past Monday, was pushed back to accommodate my testifying yesterday to the Senate Judiciary privacy subcommittee on CDT's surveillance transparency work, in which many of you have played a part--and thanks for that!)
> 
> As you can imagine, I am both sad to be leaving CDT--where I've greatly enjoyed working with all of you and the incredible CDT team--and excited to be starting in my new position at another incredibly exciting and fast-growing tech policy outfit.  I hope and expect I will continue to work with many of you, and CDT, on a broad range of issues.
> 
> I'm quite proud of the work I've been able to do at CDT and with this group's help, but I must admit I am most proud and excited to be able to say that my duties are being passed on to the ever-capable Emma Llanso (ellanso at cdt.org), who--after more than four years working as an attorney at CDT doing incredible free expression work both internationally and domestically--will be taking over the Free Expression directorship and the leadership of CDT's Free Expression Working Group.  An announcement about her transition is here: https://www.cdt.org/pr_statement/emma-llans%C3%B3-named-director-cdt%E2%80%99s-free-expression-project.  Many of you have worked with her already and know her as an invaluably expert, conscientious, thoughtful and politically astute advocate; the rest of you soon will, and I'm very excited to see her moving into this well-earned leadership role.
> 
> I am not going far--really, just a few blocks!--and I will still be deeply involved in many of the same issues, including continuing to collaborate with this group.  So this really isn't a "goodbye".  More of a "see you later."  So...
> 
> See you later,
> Kevin Bankston
> Senior Counsel and Free Expression Director at Center for Democracy & Technology
> ...until tomorrow at 5 PM.
> ____________________________________
> Kevin S. Bankston
> Senior Counsel and Free Expression Director
> Center for Democracy & Technology
> 1634 I St NW, Suite 1100
> Washington, DC 20006
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