Amar Ashar

Amar Ashar is the Berkman Center’s General Manager of Special Initiatives. He joined the Berkman Center staff in 2007 and leads the development of various strategic efforts at the Center. He currently helps to build the Berkman network throughevents and programs, communications, and select projects including Media Cloud, the Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers, the Mindsports Research Network, and other initiatives to facilitate institutional innovation. Outside of the Berkman Center, he is currently an MPA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, serves on the Board of Advisors for WZBC 90.3 FM (one of the first radio stations in the nation to webcast online), and is a member of the Sandbox Network.