Yana Welinder

Yana Welinder

Legal Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation

About me

Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I taught E-Commerce Law and Information Privacy Law at California Western School of Law and worked with Internet law and digital rights as a Google Policy Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a Summer Academic Fellow at Harvard Law School. I have also worked with public and business law in private practice.

I have an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. from University of Southern California, and an LL.B. from the London School of Economics.

I am also a junior affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet & Society and regularly speak at conferences and publish on Internet law issues. When I'm not lawyering, I love to travel, hike, cook, paint, and explore everything design.

My work

I focus on Wikipedia Zero, trademarks, privacy, and various other matters that arise out of running all the wonderful Wikimedia projects.

Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

E-mail: ywelinderwikimedia.org