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<h2>BOARD OF DIRECTORS</h2>
<p><i>The Board of Directors (BoD) for Sugar Labs Inc. has six seats. Currently, five of the six seats are filled. Here is a list with their names and short bios (in alphabetical order).</i></p>
<p><i>The Board of Directors (BoD) for Sugar Labs Inc. has six seats. Here is a list with their names and short bios (in alphabetical order).</i></p>
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<p>Alex Perez is a high-school graduate. He has studied anthropology in college, and was accepted to a handful of University of California campuses. Currently, he works in Silicon Valley as a Data Center Engineer. He owns a small business, Rabbit Hole Computing, which focuses on computer storage solutions for legacy computer systems. He has been a mentor to SugarLabs students, assisting their growth, for many years.</p>
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<p>Claudia Urrea is the Senior Associate Director for pK-12 at the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL). Claudia was born in Colombia, where she received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from EAFIT University. Claudia received her master’s degree in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University, and her doctorate degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. Her Ph.D. thesis studied the implications of one-to-one learning in a rural setting in Costa Rica. Claudia worked for 5 years as the Director of Learning for One Laptop Per Child, collaborating with SugarLabs in that role. She has been in the board of SugarLabs since 2010.</p>
<p>For the past 25 years, Claudia has helped multiple governments and non-government agencies- The New York Academy of Sciences, Schlumberger Excellence in Education Development, International Development Research Centre, among others- to empower and support schools and communities of learners to evolve from traditional teaching methods into progressive learning environments. She has also a research scientist position with the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. She has taught several classes at the Harvard Summer Program and Early Childhood Development program at Tufts University.</p>
<p>For the past 25 years, Claudia has helped multiple governments and non-government agencies- The New York Academy of Sciences, Schlumberger Excellence in Education Development, International Development Research Centre, among others- to empower and support schools and communities of learners to evolve from traditional teaching methods into progressive learning environments. She has also a research scientist position with the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. She has taught several classes at the Harvard Summer Program and Early Childhood Development program at Tufts University.</p>
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<p>Devin Ulibarri has been involved in Sugar Labs for over a decade. Ulibarri has been involved in education for twenty years, and he's advocated for free/libre/open (FLO) source software, particularly in education, for the past decade. For two years from 2022 to 2024, he worked as Outreach and Communications Coordinator at the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/" target="_blank">Free Software Foundation</a>.</p>
<p>At Sugar Labs, Ulibarri has worked closely with Walter Bender to create <a href="https://www.sugarlabs.org/music-blocks/" target="_blank">Music Blocks visual programming language</a>. In addition to this, he's mentored for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Google Code-In (GCI), and he regularly teaches students as young as five years old using a rich variety of Sugar tools. Ulibarri plays classical guitar, and he is the Dungeon Master for his family on the weekends.</p>
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<p>Lionel Laské has been active member of Sugar Labs community since 2008. Lionel Laské was board member and co-founder in 2008 of the OLPC France grassroot. OLPC France launched and maintained from 2009 to 2018 several deployments of XO laptops on Sugar in Madagascar and France. Since 2017, OLPC France hold a deployment of 500 Android tablets on Sugarizer in France. OLPC France organized three SugarCamp in Paris in 2009, 2011 and 2014. Lionel Laské is the author of 8 Sugar activities and is the author and the lead developer of Sugarizer, a port of Sugar on any device. Lionel Laské was mentor for SugarLabs during Google Summer of Code 2013 to 2019 and was mentor for Google Code-In in 2015 to 2019.</p>
<p>Samson is an open source advocate who is very passionate about Edtech. He is currently working with International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to bring more African girls into Technology. He is the co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, a movement that promotes and educate everything open source within Africa.</p>
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<p>Samson is an open source advocate who is very passionate about Edtech. H e is currently working with International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to bring more African girls into Technology. He is the co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, a movement that promotes and educate everything open source within Africa.</p>
<p>Sebastian Silva learned Logo as a 5-year-old child in a workshop in Lima in the 1980s. Later, he taught himself Basic, Pascal, Python, JS, etc... but most importantly, through exploring GNU/Linux, he became enamoured with the philosophy of Software Freedom. He went on to study Psychology to satisfy his curiosity. Soon, he was involved with the original Sugar deployments on OLPC laptops in Peru, Colombia, and Uruguay - organizing local groups to promote software freedom in the region. <a href="https://somosazucar.org/" target="_blank">SomosAzucar</a> initiative (a SL local lab) was responsible for the addition of Quechua, Aymara and Awajún system locales to GLIBC in order to support these deployments. Currently, Silva works as Senior Programming Coach at <a href="https://www.laboratoria.la/en" target="_blank">Laboratoria, a feminist organization</a>. In his spare time, he has written a few programming-learning gadgets such as <a href="https://super-8.educa.juegos/" target="_blank">SUPER-8</a> and <a href="https://jappy.educa.juegos/" target="_blank">Jappy Creator</a>, and he's the Software Curator for the laptop-deployment projects of <a href="https://repurpose-it.org/?technico_team=sebastian-silva" target="_blank">Repurpose-IT.org</a>. He misses having a viable constructivist learning environment that "free desktops" can use, so he has returned to the Sugar Labs board.</p>
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<p>Walter Bender has more than thirty years experience as an academic advisor at MIT. He has more than 40 years experience as a software developer.</p>
<p>Sumit Srivastava is a recipient of <a href="https://hpc.stability.ai/" target="_blank">Stability AI supercomputer grant for open source AI research</a> and is currently working on a new AI project called <a href="https://cotyper.com/" target="_blank">Cotyper</a>. Prior to this, he started a leading <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220123034418/http://coveri.ga/" target="_blank">medical search engine</a> and was a part of the leading talent investor <a href="https://joinef.com/" target="_blank">Entrepreneur First</a>. He is a maintainer of the <a href="https://www.sugarlabs.org/music-blocks/" target="_blank">Music Blocks programming language</a>. Sumit started many learning groups in Asia where people learn by doing and get iterative feedback. For fun, he plays ukulele and flute, and he builds things like livestreaming software and air purifiers.</p>
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<p>There is one seat currently vacant from the board. The board member will be elected at the next election.<!-- add a link to information about election-->
<p>Founder of Sugar Labs and co-founder of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), Walter Bender has more than thirty years experience as an academic advisor at MIT. He has more than forty years experience as a software developer. Author of numerous learning tools, Bender is the original author of Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks, as well as many Sugar Activities.<!-- add a link to information about election-->
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