Resume- Nathan Newman

Nathan Newman

59 Skillman Ave. #14 Jersey City, NJ 07306

nathan@newman.org http://www.nathannewman.org

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Overview of Experience: Unique combination of legal, organizing, research, media and computer skills. Achievement of national media recognition for policy and organizing work. National innovator in use of the Internet for social justice organizing and education. Experience coordinating community, government and labor constituencies. Book on Internet to be published 2002.

Education:

New York University Law School (2002-2003) Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History.

Yale Law School J.D. (2001). 2001 Mary McCarthy Fellowship in Public Interest Law. 2001 Benjamin Scharps Prize for best paper in the third year class. 1999 Edgar M. Cullen Prize for best paper in the first year class.

University of California-Berkeley, Sociology Dept. Ph.D. (1998) M.A. (1992). National Science Foundation Fellow (1991-1994). Jacob Javits Fellow (1990-1991). Book based on dissertation to be published 2002 by Penn State Press: Net Loss, a study of the development of the Internet and its political and economic impacts on inequality and regional economies.

Amherst College B.A. (1988) Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with double major in Physics & American Studies. 1988 George Taylor Prize for best honors thesis in American Studies. Truman Scholarship nominee.

General Employment History:

Brennan Center for Justice (2003- present): Associate Counsel and Policy Analyst

Eisner & Hubbard: (NYC 2001- 2002) Associate at union-side law firm.

Communications Workers of America, (Summer 2000) Summer Associate, General Counsel's Office.

NetAction: (1997-1999) Project Director, published reports and electronic newsletter on Microsoft's anticompetitive practices; lobbied US Congress and California state legislature; promoted agenda in support of open computing standards.

Progressive Communications: (1996-1997) Computer consulting partnership.

UC-Berkeley Center for Community Economic Research: (1991-1996) Co-director of labor-community research center whose work was cited regularly in national media, including New York Times, Business Week and The Nation. Promoted research to serve the needs of community organizations and trained labor and community activists in use of the Internet.

US Congress Office of Technology Assessment: (1994-1995) consultant on study of productivity in the service sector; researched section on hotel industry nationwide and on San Francisco labor-management "team" bargaining.

Public Interest Communications: (Falls Church, VA; 1989-1990) Supervisor for progressive telephone fundraising; overseeing telephone fundraisers for 50+ national environmental and social justice organizations.

Hotel Employees/Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) (1988-1989) Staff Organizer; Worked with Las Vegas local preparing members for contract negotiations in hotel/casinos.

Massachusetts Fair Share: (Boston Summer 1987) Canvass field manager on health care reform & toxics issues.

Mass. Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG): (Boston Jan./Summer 1985/1986) Canvass staff.

Amherst College Physics Department: (Fall 1987; Fall 1986) Teaching Assistant
Other Organizing Experience

National Lawyers Guild- National Vice President, 2000-2002 term.

Coordinator, Yale Law Workers Rights Project ('99-'00)- promoted legal support for workers rights struggles.

Treasurer/organizer for welfare and jobs coalition, People for Bread Work and Justice (1996-1998), involving over 100 SF Bay Area unions and community organizations.

Organizer for California Network for a New Economy, statewide labor-environmental network, (1992-1995).

Appointed member of City of Berkeley Labor Commission (1992-1994).

Executive Board member, Association of Graduate Student Employees, UAW at UC-Berkeley (1991-1992).

Editor, Labor Center Reporter, UC-Berkeley (1991-1994).

Organized for public education/university funding, California Coalition for Public Education (1991-1992).

State treasurer/exec committee of Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG) (1984-1986), a 28-campus/100,000 citizen-supported environmental & consumer organization.
Computer-Based Public Education Experience:

Commercial Web design for various companies/organizations; broad knowledge of databases, spreadsheets and programming.

Freelance writer on technology issues in The American Prospect and other publications. Founder/writer, E-Node (1996 to 1997), e-publication w/ 3500 subscribers on social & economic technology issues.

Computer training for union locals and AFL-CIO Organizing Institute. Trained unions like HERE Local 2850 in using the Internet as a tool during comprehensive corporate campaigns.

Developed the National Budget Simulation (1995-1996), a World Wide Web interactive simulation aimed at educating the public about the federal budget; cited in media from The New York Times to Business Week, including interview on C-SPAN.

Consultant, Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) (1994-1996) in developing regional government Internet system.

Created 187Resist national immigrant rights electronic network (1994-1996); profiled in The Nation and USA Today as first prominent national use of the Internet for building an online organizing community.

Created Economic Democracy Information Network (EDIN) Internet site to promote labor/community information on-line; Sept. 1994 PC Computing named EDIN one of 29 "Highlights of the Internet."

Nathan Newman
PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS & ARTICLES (selected; fuller list at http://www.nathannewman.org)

August 2002 Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits and the Costs to Community- book to be published by Penn State Press.

Summer 2001 "The Case for Impeaching the Rehnquist Five." Guild Notes; published by the National Lawyers Guild.

April 2001-ongoing Twice-monthly column in The Progressive Populist, national progressive newspaper.

May 2001 "Class Conflict in the Courts: RICO, Labor and Legal Preemption in Union Comprehensive Campaigns." Awarded 2001 Yale Law Benjamin Scharps prize for best paper in third-year class.

April 2000 "Storming the Gates: Will Open Source Software End the Microsoft Monopoly?" The American Prospect.

May 1999 "Trade Secrets and Collective Bargaining: A Solution to Resolving Tensions in the Economics of Innovation." Awarded 1999 Yale Law Edgar Cullen prize for best paper in first-year class.

April 1999 "Database Protection: Rewarding Sweat or Destroying Fair Use?" Background paper prepared for Private Censorship/Perfect Choice conference sponsored by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

June 1998 "Consumer Choice in Web Browsers: One Year Later." A NetAction Report.

May 1998 Net Loss: Government, Technology and the Political Economy of Community in the Age of the Internet. Ph.D. dissertation. Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley.

April 1998 "The Microsoft-Intuit Merger: The Intervention that Worked and the Dangers Today from Microsoft's Monopoly Practices in the Online Financial Marketplace." Report published by NetAction.

November 1997 "From Microsoft Word to Microsoft World: How Microsoft is Building a Global Monopoly." Report published by NetAction and made a featured article by the Electronic Policy Network's January/February Idea Central.

April 1996 "The Great Internet Tax Drain" in Technology Review.

August 1995 "Prop 13 Meets the Internet: How States and Local Government Finances are Becoming Road Kill on the Information Superhighway." Report published by Center for Community Economic Research (CCER) and republished in September 1995 issue of State Tax Notes. Revised version published in Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, ed. by Peter Ludlow (MIT Press 2001).

August 1995 "In the Shadow Of Prop 187: Fighting for Immigrant Workplace Justice at The Lafayette Park." Labor Notes.

April 1995 "Can Teams in San Francisco Hotels Open a New Era in the Industry?" Labor Notes.

January 1995 "Building High Performance Teams In The Hotel Industry: A Case Study Of The San Francisco Multi-Employer Group And the San Francisco Hotel Unions". Contracted study for US Congress Office of Technology Assessment's report on Technology, Jobs and Productivity in service economy.

September 1994 "Overview of the Hotel Industry in the United States". Contracted study for US Congress Office of Technology Assessment's report on Technology, Jobs and Productivity in the service economy.

Spring 1994 "Activism On-line: Getting from Here to There." w/ Anders Schneiderman. Publication of CCER in association with the Applied Research Center.

Spring 1994 "After NAFTA: It's Time to Move Beyond the International Wild West" w/ Anders Schneiderman in Policy Advocate. Published by the Center for Ethics & Economic Policy.

June 1993 "The Devil's Choice: Funding Levels and Equity Between School Districts". Post-MA Methods paper for Department of Sociology, UC-Berkeley.

Summer 1993 California Network for a New Economy Jun 11-13,1993 Final Conference Report. Wrote summary of discussions of conference of over 90 non-profits and unions on California economy.

October 1993 "If Not Nafta, Then What?" w/ Anders Schneiderman. Labor Center Reporter October 1993 (No. 288).

February 1993 "Graduate Student Employees Still Fighting Uphill Battle After University of California Strike" Labor Notes.

July 1992 "Jobs, Justice and Sustainable Development: a Report on Building a Democratic Future for California". CCER report with the California Network for a New Economy.
Recommendations on request