Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
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Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman in New York City, 2012
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14 November 1981 Brisbane Australia |
| Nationality | Australian-American |
| Alma mater | Duke University |
| Occupation | Activist |
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman (born 14 November 1981) is an Australian-American activist. She is the founder and was the executive director until 2016 of corporate watchdog SumOfUs. In March 2012, she and her group were active critics of working conditions at Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn.
She is the daughter of DePauw University professors, former Georgetown basketball standout Bruce Stinebrickner and author Kelsey Kauffman. She was raised in Greencastle, Indiana.
Stinebrickner-Kauffman graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in mathematics from Duke University in 2004.
Before founding SumOfUs Stinebrickner-Kauffman was part of the climate movement for years and fought for strong climate legislation global agreements, and the labor movement, working for groups like Avaaz.org, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and the AFL-CIO.
In 2011, she founded SumOfUs, an online community that campaigns to hold big corporations accountable on issues such as climate change, workers’ rights, discrimination, human rights, animal rights, corruption, and corporate power grab. She was the Executive Director of this non-profit organization (from 2011 to 2016) that is acting like a global consumer watchdog.
Stinebrickner-Kauffman was the partner of Internet activist Aaron Swartz until his death. In 2011 Swartz was prosecuted for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), and, facing the risk of long imprisonment if convicted, he committed suicide in 2013. She found his body.
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