Leadership & Legacy: The Sherwin Lee Siy Memorial Fund Benefit

Please be part of Public Information for Management & Legacy: The Sherwin Lee Siy Memorial Fund Profit to boost consciousness and assist for the Sherwin Lee Siy Memorial Fund. This fund goals to ascertain a fellowship in Sherwin Lee Siy’s title by Public Information’s PKTrains program.

Sherwin Lee Siy was a famend chief at Public Information for almost 10 years and a passionate advocate for the openness of data within the digital period. The Memorial Fund honors Sherwin’s legacy as an unparalleled skilled in tech coverage and a devoted mentor, guiding and provoking a brand new technology of advocates within the area.

The Sherwin Lee Siy Fellow will probably be a part of Public Information’s PKTrains program, which is a dynamic initiative cultivating the following technology of public curiosity advocates who consider in expertise coverage that places folks first. Since its inception in 2014, Public Information’s PKTrains program has skilled greater than 20 full-time post-graduate fellows and dozens of pupil interns and externs by a learn-by-doing method.

The Sherwin Lee Siy Memorial Fund helps paid advocacy coaching to early-career tech coverage advocates who might not in any other case have the chance for such immersive skilled and management improvement. Due to beneficiant contributors, PK proudly hosted two Sherwin Lee Siy Memorial Interns, in Summer time 2022 and Summer time 2023, permitting them to work in the direction of careers in public curiosity advocacy.

This occasion is sponsored by Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP and will probably be held at WBK workplaces on September twelfth from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. We hope you’ll be able to be part of us.

Management & Legacy Host Committee (in formation)

Laurent Crenshaw

Lourdes Kong

Chris Lewis

Clint Odom

Gopal Reddy

Dane Snowden

Gigi Sohn