My name is Ren Bucholz and I currently live in Toronto, Ontario. I'm a law student at Osgoode Hall and a Masters student in the Communications & Culture programme at York University. That happens to be where Laura, my lovely wife, is a professor.

Before going back to school in 2007, I worked on international policy for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I got my hands dirty in a lot of different things, but I focused on international copyright policy, activism, and the standardization of technology. EFF was an amazingly exciting, fun place to work.

I also help manage a political action committee called IPac. IPac works on the electoral side of IP, which means that we direct money towards candidates who support balanced IP while trying to unseat legislators who aggressively push the content industry's agenda. I also helped start CopyNight, a monthly social night for people interested in copyright and technology.

You may have noticed that I blog about lots of things that could loosely be called "design." I have a longstanding interest in that world, and I've been a professional designer -- in the sense that I take money from clients for work -- on-and-off for the last decade. One of the things I like about the work listed above is that I get to use those skills. My stuff has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Make, and miscellaneous corners of the web. I'm planning to put my portfolio online when I find the time.

In a former life I managed a noncommercial radio station and worked for one of the first Internet broadcasters. I also majored in journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I graduated with honors.