Sascha Meinrath
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| Born | New Haven, Connecticut |
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Yale University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Occupation | Director, X-Lab - The New Venture Fund |
| Employer | X-Lab - The New Venture Fund |
Sascha Meinrath is an Internet freedom activist. He is the founder of X-Lab, a future-focused technology policy and innovation project, and promotes the "Internet in a Suitcase" effort to create ad hoc mesh wireless technologies. Sascha founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and directed the Institute while also serving as Vice President of the New America Foundation. He is also the co-founder and executive director of the CUWiN Foundation, a non-profit launched in 2000 that aims to develop "decentralized, community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local content," and in 2007 founded the Open Source Wireless Coalition, "a global partnership of open source wireless integrators, researchers, implementors and companies dedicated to the development of open source, interoperable, low-cost wireless network technologies." In 2012 he was elected as an Ashoka Global Fellow for leading support for Internet freedom in the United States and around the globe, as well as named to Newsweek's Digital Power Index Top 100 influencers among other “public servants defining digital regulatory boundaries” for his efforts to develop open-source, low-cost community wireless networks and his role in fighting Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). In 2013 Time named Meinrath to the TIME Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech for his work to protect Internet freedom.
Meinrath was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Yale University in 1997, where he was a Sterling Scholar. His undergraduate thesis, on "The Effects of Academic Grouping on Students' Perceptions of School Climate", received first place for "Best Graduate or Undergraduate Research and Presentation" from the Society for Community Research and Action.
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