Tony Sebro

Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, where he manages the day-to-day operations of Wikimedia's legal department, and provide specific expertise on free and open source licensing, intellectual property, non-profit law, and privacy matters. Tony is also an organizer of Conservancy's Outreachy project, which provides paid internships in free and open source for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. Prior to joining Wikimedia, Tony served as General Counsel (and “Employee #2”) of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years. Tony has also spent time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon & Kenyon, and as an intellectual property licensing and business development professional with IBM. Tony received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017.