Elaine Sedenberg

Elaine Sedenberg is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, where she is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow and a Berkeley Graduate Fellow. Her current research focuses on the legal, ethical, and policy aspects of information sharing and data access for research purposes. Previously, Elaine was a Science Policy Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) in Washington D.C., which is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center that supports the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), as well as the NSF and other agencies. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the open access, student-run Journal of Science Policy and Governance (JSPG). Elaine has also served as a consultant for Center for American Progress' online science publication, Science Progress, and completed a Tisdale Fellowship in technology policy. Elaine holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated with highest honors and a Dean's Honored Graduate distinction.