Tony Sebro

Tony oversees the organization's Policy and Legal team and serves as a member of the executive leadership team.

Prior to joining Change.org, Sebro was the Deputy and Interim General Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and its related projects. He also served as the General Counsel for Software Freedom Conservancy, a nonprofit centered around ethical technology that acts as the home for more than 40 free and open source software projects, including Git, Selenium and Samba. Sebro has also spent time in private practice with PCT Law Group and Kenyon & Kenyon, and as an intellectual property licensing and business development professional with IBM.

Sebro earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; an MBA from the University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business; and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. In 2017, Sebro received an O'Reilly Open Source Award for leadership and outstanding contribution to open source.