Meet the NMR Staff

Mera Szendro Bok

Communications and Information Officer
Joined NMR in

Mera's knowledge of media policy, communication rights, digital rights and open web advocacy has led her to work on communications for New Media Rights. Mera focuses on communications strategy and implementation for New Media Rights services and digital rights advocacy.

At New Media Rights, Mera creates blogs, builds parts of the website, and produces videos. Mera also works on contacts management and does outreach to local and national groups to build New Media Rights' network and to partner with local and national allies. Mera's outreach work includes utilizing social media platforms to engage with diverse audiences and writing the New Media Rights newsletter.

Mera has worked to build Drumbeat San Diego since the Summer of 2010. As lead Drumbeat organizer Mera has organized volunteers, meetings and documented the work on the Mozilla Wiki and on the New Media Rights site on our main Drumbeat page.

Mera's academic backgound is in Communications and International Studies. She received her BA in NYC from Marymount Manhattan College.

Media:

  • NY Rockland Radio appearance talking about New Media Rights and new media creation.

 

Past Public Speaking Engagements:

  • LA Media Reform Summit: Wikileaks, Net Neutrality and Netfreedom- February 26, 2011 
  • East County Democrats: FCC Net Neutrality order and the Comcast-merger
  • Defending Democracy Forums- July 1st, 2010 San Diego, CA
  1. Session: “Bridging the Abyss – The San Diego move toward citizen journalism”
  2. Session: “Communicating Network Neutrality”

 

 

Shaun Spalding

Assistant Director
Joined NMR in

Shaun Spalding is an intellectual property and privacy attorney with an interest in digital entertainment transactions, data-sharing agreements, and licensing.

 

Shaun has represented a handful of the top-40 most watched and most subscribed to Youtube channels in the world. Shaun is also a professor at California Western School of Law teaching an Internet and Media Law clinical course. Outside of academia, over 10,000 working creators have enrolled in his online courses aimed at teaching legal basics to creatives. The LAGD: Legal Assistance for Game Developers video series which he developed, directed, and produced with New Media Rights has over 350,000 views and counting.

 

Before making contracts and online education his main hobbies, Shaun worked as a commercial video producer making brand-integrated videos for companies like SWISS Airlines, Sharp Television, the Motion Picture Association of America, and Henkel.

Click here to learn more about Shaun, including publications, interviews, and presentations.

Teri Karobonik

Staff Attorney
Joined NMR in

teri@newmediarights.org

Teri Karobonik is a Staff Attorney at New Media Rights where she works with all manner of creative individuals on a daily basis on preventative, transactional and pre-litigation matters. In addition to one on one assistance Teri actively engages in policy work with the copyright office as well as educational work. Teri is also an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law where she co-teaches the Internet & Media Law Clinic. In 2015 Teri was appointed as an Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellow in recognition of her work as an early career leader in the tech law and policy space.

Teri received her J.D. from Santa Clara Law in 2012. While she was at Santa Clara Teri earned numerous awards for her work in IP and Privacy including a Pro-Bono Award for her work as the International Legal Intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the summer of 2011. Teri received her B.A. with honors in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in 2009. She was also inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. For more on Teri, check out her LinkedIn profile here and her SSRN page here.

Click here to learn more about Teri, including publications, interviews, and presentations.

 

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