Cristiana Gonzalez
Association for Progressive Communications
project coordinator
São Paulo, Brazil
Gonzalez is a senior fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sao Paulo. She worked for six years at GPOPAI – Research Group in Public Policies for Access to Information – at University of São Paulo. She was a participant in the 2011 and 2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (organized by American University, Washington, D.C.) and served as a representative of the Civil Society Coalition (CSC), an international coalition of consumer, development, and public interest organizations that follow World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) negotiations on copyrights and patents. She is worked as technical adviser at the Brazilian Internet Steering Committe (CGI.br) and currently is project coordinator for APC and special adviser at the Brazilian Federation of Libraries and Associations (FEBAB) for copyright and Internet related issues.