Sascha Meinrath Curriculum Vitae

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Contact Info
E-mail: sascha@saschameinrath.com
Phone: (202)986-2700
AIM/Gizmo/Skype: saschameinrath
Mailing Address: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20009
USA

Education
2003-Present Doctoral Student, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois (PhD expected: 2007). Thesis Title: "Wireless Networking and Community Empowerment: Participatory Media and Deliberative Democracy in an age of Communications Revolution."
2004 Masters of the Arts, Social-Ecological Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. Thesis Title: "Reactions to Contemporary Activist-Scholars and the 'Midwestern Mystique': A case study for utilizing an evolving methodology in contentious contexts."
1997 Bachelor of Arts, Intensive Major in Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Thesis Title: "The Effects of Academic Grouping on Students' Perceptions of School Climate."

Honors, Awards, and Grants
2007 International Communications Association, Law & Policy Division: Top Paper. Award for "New Network Neutrality: Criteria for Internet Freedom."
2007 $158,398 -- International Development Research Centre grant for the Acorn Active Media Foundation project, "Dissemination: Catalyzing Online Collaboration and Information Exchanges across the Telecentre Community Globally."
2007 $40,000 -- Media Democracy Fund grant for Ethos Wireless to create the "Municipal Wireless Broadband Resource Center and Online Toolkit"
2006 $100,000 -- National Science Foundation Grant for CUWiN, "Toward Building a Performance-Predictable Wireless Mesh Network."
2005 $118,450 -- Grant for CUWiN from the Open Society Institute, in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa, "Developing an Affordable, Wireless Networking System."
2005 $50,000 -- Threshold Foundation Grant, "Integrating Multimedia Services into Community Wireless Networks."
2005 $50,000 -- Zero Divide Grant, "Residential Mesh Networking for Tribal Digital Village."
2005 $267,000 -- Core partner in IDRC/APC project, "Capacity Building for Community Wireless Connectivity in Africa."
2005 $7,500 -- Open Society Institute Travel Grant to send core CUWiN developers to the Djursland, Denmark, WSFII Summit.
2004 Humanitarian Service Award, University of Illinois Mother's Association, for innovative approaches that address immediate needs within the community.
2004 Fences and Windows Fund Award for grassroots organizing and education to help activists fight alarming attacks on the right to protest and dissent.
2003 $200,000 -- Grant from the Open Society Institute, "Community Wireless Networking -- Phase III Development to Build a Scalable Mesh Architecture."
2003 $10,500 -- Grant from the Threshold Foundation, "Indymedia Growth in Africa Project."
2003 $4,500 -- Grant from the Threshold Foundation, "Prototyping Wireless Nodes for Use in Climates Worldwide."
2003 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. Highest recognition granted by the University to those who "fulfill in exemplary ways the University's commitment to public engagement."
2003 Departmental Travel Award to present, "Indymedia (R)Evolution: The Global Network & Rise of One Indymedia Center" at the Ninth Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
2003 Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) Travel Award to present, "Indymedia (R)Evolution: The Global Network & Rise of One Indymedia Center." Symposium convened for the 2003 biennial conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
2000 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Travel Award to present, "Using collaborative strategies to facilitate community-wide dialog concerning racial climate."; In M.S. Aber (Chair), Addressing racial inequities in public schools using social climate research. and "Non-traditional avenues for affecting change in a public school: Obstacles and successes." In G. Hunt (Chair), Non-traditional, community-based strategies to foster school reform. Symposia conducted at the third stand-alone conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Minneapolis, MN.
1999 Departmental Travel Award to present, “Convergent School Climate Analysis of a Low SES, Ethnically Diverse Elementary School: A Descriptive Study of Post-Reform School Climate” at the Seventh Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action, New Haven, Connecticut.
1997 First Place for "Best Graduate or Undergraduate Research and Presentation," received at the Sixth Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action, Columbia, South Carolina.
1993-1997 Sterling Scholar, Yale University.



Articles, Publications & Reports
In Prep. Pickard, V., & Meinrath, S.D. (In Preparation). Feudalizing the Internet: Enclosures and Erasures from Digital Rights Management to the Digital Divide.

In Prep. Meinrath, S.D. (In Preparation). Journal for Community Informatics, Editor for Special Issue, "Community Wireless, Intranet Applications & Local Empowerment" (working title).

In Prep. Meinrath, S.D., & Pickard V. (In Preparation). The Rise of the Intranet Era: Politics and Media in an Age of Communications (R)evolution. Chapter for upcoming book from Sage Publications on Community Technology.

In Prep. Meinrath, S.D. (In Preparation). Creating the Global Internet: The Formation of International Computer Communications Networks. Available online here.
2007 Meinrath, S.D., & Pickard V. (2007). The New Network Neutrality: Criteria for Internet Freedom. Accepted for Publication: International Journal of Communications Law and Policy. Draft available online here.
2007 Bradner, S., claffy, k.c., & Meinrath, S.D. (2007, May-June). The (un)Economic Internet. IEEE Internet Computing. Vol. 11(3). Pages 53-58. Available online here.
2007 Meinrath, S.D., & claffy, k.c. (2007). COMMONS Strategy Workshop Final Report: Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems. Available online here.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007, March). CALEA and Ownerless Networks: FCC-Mandated Hacking?. Article on www.MuniWireless.com. Available online here.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007) Dissecting Muni Wi-Fi's DNA. Article for GovTech's Digital Cities. February, 2006. Available online here.

2007 Marcus, M.J., Brodersen, R., Brown T.X., Kolodzy, P., Lippman, A., Meinrath, S.D., Sirbu, M.A., Tang, H. (2007, January). Technical Comments on Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Unlicensed Access to TV White Spaces. ET Docket 04-186. Available online here.
2006 Pickard, V., & Meinrath, S.D. (2006). No Room for Neutrality on Net Neutrality. Article for Public i Newspaper. October, 2006.

2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) The MuniWireless Influencers: Voices of Those Shaping the Debate. Article for MuniWireless Magazine. November-December, 2006.

2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) What are the barriers to digital inclusion? Part III of a Three-Part Series on Digital Inclusion Perspectives from Around the Globe. Article for GovTech's Digital Cities. November, 2006. Available online here.

2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Emergency Communications & Disaster Response. Article for GovTech Magazine. November, 2006. Available online here.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) What can we do to address digital inclusion? Part II of a Three-Part Series on Digital Inclusion Perspectives from Around the Globe. Article for GovTech's Digital Cities. October, 2006. Available online here.

2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) CUWiN: Wirelessing the Revolution with Open Source Mesh Wireless Technologies. Article for GovTech's Digital Communities. October, 2006. Available online here.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) MuniWireless Conference Minneapolis Wrap-Up: Digital Inclusion, Rakish Genius, and a Dash of Debauchery. Article for GovTech's Digital Communities. October, 2006. Available online here.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) Think Locally, Act Locally -- Best Practices: The Community Advocate's Point of View. Article for 2006 MuniWireless State of the Market Report. September, 2006.

2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) Digital Inclusion: Social Justice in a Communications Age. Part I of a Three-Part Series on Digital Inclusion Perspectives from Around the Globe. Article for GovTech's Digital Cities. September, 2006. Available online here.

2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) Digital Inclusion: Social Justice in a Communications Age. Cover story article for MuniWireless Magazine. September-October, 2006.

2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006) The Boston Municipal Wireless Model. Article for GovTech's Digital Communities. August, 2006. Available online here.
2006 Meinrath, S., & Scott, B. (2006) Community Internet: Why Should Arts and Culture Funders Care. Grantmakers in the Arts Reader. Pages 28-29. March, 2006.

2005 Ó Baoill, A., Meinrath, S., & Foley, B. (2005) Tuning in to the Public’s Voice: A Submission in Response to ComReg’s Consultation on Radio Spectrum Management. Scagaire. Submission for Ireland ComReg 05/01. March, 2005.

2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005) Community Wireless Networking and Open Spectrum Usage: A Research Agenda to Support Progressive Policy Reform of the Public Airwaves. Journal of Community Informatics. Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 204-209.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005) Wirelessing the World: Socio-Historical and Technological Factors Affecting the Battle over (Community) Wireless Networks. Chapter in The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century.
2004 Meinrath, S.D. (2004-5, Winter) The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network. Community Technology Review. Available online here.
2004 Sandvig, C., Young, D., & Meinrath, S.D.(2004) Hidden Interfaces to "Ownerless" Networks. Paper presented to the 32nd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
2004 Meinrath, S.D. (2004, September) Building Community Wireless Networks: Next Steps and Challenges. Invited commentary on www.MuniWireless.com. Available online here.
2004 Meinrath, S.D. (2004, May). The Rise of Indymedia, Conclusions & Confusions. Paper presented at the International Communications Association Annual Conference as part of "Out of the Wires and into the Streets: Alternative Communities, Emergent Networks, and Digital Mobilization." New Orleans, LA.

2003 Scott, B., & Meinrath, S.D. (2003, December). Media Reform Explodes onto American Political Scene. Public i. Vol. 3(10).

2003 Meinrath, S.D. (2003, June). Indymedia (R)Evolution: The Global Network & Rise of One Indymedia Center. Symposium convened for the 2003 biennial conference on Community Research and Action, Las Vegas, New Mexico.

2002 Meinrath, S.D. (2002, July). The Rise of the Independent Media Center Network. Response Magazine.

2002 Meinrath, S.D. (2002, June). Evolutionary Methodology: An Action Research Framework for the Study of Contentious Issues. Symposium conducted at the forth stand alone conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Toronto, Canada.

2001 Meinrath, S.D., and staff. (2001, August). Challenging the Media Monopoly Introducing the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center's Public i. Public i. Vol. 1(1).

2001 Rasmussen, A., Reid, A., &; Meinrath, S.D. (2001, June). Constructing Racial Climate Surveys: Successes and Lessons Learned. Symposium conducted at the biennial conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, Atlanta, Georgia.

2001 Aber, M.S., Meinrath, S.D., Johnston, J., Rasmussen, A.E., & Gonzalez, A. (2001, February). A Report of Primary Findings of the School Climate Study for Champaign Community Unit School District 4. Presented to the Champaign Unit 4 School Board, Champaign, Illinois.

2000 Meinrath, S.D. (2000, June). Using collaborative strategies to facilitate community-wide dialog concerning racial climate. In M.S. Aber (Chair), Addressing racial inequities in public schools using social climate research. Symposium conducted at the third stand alone conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Minneapolis, MN.

2000 Meinrath, S.D. (2000, June). Non-traditional avenues for affecting change in a public school: Obstacles and successes. In G. Hunt (Chair), Non-traditional, community-based strategies to foster school reform. Symposium conducted at the third stand alone conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Minneapolis, MN.

2000 Rasmussen, A.E., & Meinrath, S.D. (2000, June). Building "Data Credibility" In a Divided Community: The Limits of Participatory Action Research to Foster a Dialog on School Racial Inequity. In M.S. Aber (Chair), Addressing racial inequities in public schools using social climate research. Symposium conducted at the third stand alone conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Minneapolis, MN.

2000 Aber, M.S., Meinrath, S.D., Johnston, J., Rasmussen, A.E., & Gonzalez, A. (2000). Parent School Climate Survey. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School Climate Research Team.

2000 Aber, M.S., Meinrath, S.D., Johnston, J., Rasmussen, A.E., & Gonzalez, A. (2000). School Climate Survey: Elementary School Version. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School Climate Research Team.

2000 Aber, M.S., Meinrath, S.D., Johnston, J., Rasmussen, A.E., & Gonzalez, A. (2000). School Climate Survey: High School Version. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School Climate Research Team.

2000 Aber, M.S., Meinrath, S.D., Johnston, J., Rasmussen, A.E., & Gonzalez, A. (2000). School Climate Survey: Middle School Version. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School Climate Research Team.

2000 Aber, M.S., Meinrath, S.D., Johnston, J., Rasmussen, A.E., & Gonzalez, A. (2000). School Climate Survey: School Staff Version. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School Climate Research Team.

1999 Meinrath, S.D. (1999, June). Convergent School Climate Analysis of a Low SES, Ethnically Diverse Elementary School: A Descriptive Study of Post-Reform School Climate. Presented at the 1999 meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, New Haven, CT.

1999 Meinrath, S.D. (1999, April). Action Research in School Settings: School Climate as a Tool for Change. Psychology department, divisional presentation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1997 Meinrath, S.D., & Kuperminc, G.P. (1997, June). Academic Groupings in an Ethnically and Socioeconomically Diverse Middle School: A Descriptive Study of Multiple Social Climates. Presented at the 1997 meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action, Columbia, SC.

1997 Meinrath, S.D., (1997, May). The Effects of Academic Grouping on Students' Perceptions of School Climate. Presented at the 1997 Intensive Major Faculty Colloquium, New Haven, CT.


Research Experience
2006-Present Director of Municipal and Community Networking, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA).
2004-Present Telecommunications Fellow. Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2004-2006 Policy Analyst, Free Press. A national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.
2001-2003 Consultant, Innovative Education Consulting, Inc. An action-research street media center focusing on hip-hop culture and African American youth. Produce bi-weekly radio segments focused on issues of importance to African American girls.
1998-2003 Research Assistant, School Climate Research Team. Research team set up to assess and report on the racial climate of Champaign, Unit 4 public schools. Create school climate survey instruments; administer surveys; report data; foster dialog concerning survey's results.
1999-2000 Research Assistant, DCFS-Community Collaboration. Funded by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to investigate primary prevention opportunities to avoid DCFS involvement in a low-income, minority community.
1998-2001 Research Assistant, Partners for Progress. A community-university collaboration to reform a local public elementary school funded by Partnership Illinois. Conduct school climate assessment; prepare reports for the school; foster dialog among school staff.
1995-1997 Research Assistant and Consultant, Depression and Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Gender-linked Pathways in the Development of Psychology. Collaborative research-education endeavor funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation. Data collection, coding, and analysis; report writing. Principal Investigators: Bonnie J. Leadbeater, Ph.D., Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., Donald M. Quinlan, Ph.D.
1995 Research Assistant, Drug Treatment Process Study. Funded by the Drug Policy Research Center, RAND. Data abstraction; reporting limitations of data sources and coding instruments and site set-up. Project manager: Nora Fitzgerald.
1991 Research Assistant, the Boston University Polymer Center. Test piloting computer programs for teaching fractals, chaos theory, percolation and randomness to high school students.
1990 Research Assistant, Boston University Biology Department. Investigate effects of tannin and phenol levels on eating habits of geomitrid caterpillars for application in organic pesticide production.

Invited Talks & Presentations
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007). Closing Plenary. International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, Columbia, MD. May 20, 2007.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007). Taking COMMONS Global -- Creating an Alternative International Internet Infrastructure. International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, Columbia, MD. May 19, 2007.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007). Opening Plenary. International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, Columbia, MD. May 18, 2007.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007). Cooperative Networking (AKA Everyone Else is Stupid). Plenary Presentation at Freedom to Connect. Silver Springs, MD. March 6, 2007.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007). The Growth of Wireless Internet: From Community to Municipal to Corporate. Presentation at the National Conference for Media Reform. Memphis, TN. January 12, 2007.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007). Network Neutrality Roundtable Discussion. Moderated Panel at the SSRC Media Reform Preconference. Memphis, TN. January 11, 2007.
2007 Meinrath, S.D. (2007). The New Network Neutrality: Ten Take-Home Messages. Presentation at the SSRC Media Reform Preconference. Memphis, TN. January 11, 2007.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). The COMMONS Strategy Workshop. North American Summit of key stakeholders in the Cooperative Measurement and Modeling of Open Networked Systems Project. San Diego, CA. December 12-13, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). The state of Community Wireless in North America. Presentation at the APC Wireless in Africa Summit. London, UK. December 8-10, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Beyond LANs, MANs, & Community Intranets: the COMMONS Project. Plenary presentation at the MuniWireless Conference Digital Inclusion Day. Minneapolis, MN. October 22, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). LANs, MANs, & Beyond: Community Intranets and the COMMONS Project. Plenary session at the Alternative Telecommunication Policy Forum. Ottawa, Canada. October 19, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D., & Pickard, V. (2006). The New Network Neutrality: Criteria for Internet Freedom. Panel Presentation at the Telecommunications Policy and Research Conference. Washington, DC. September 30, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Plenary Session: The Rise of the Intranet Era: Applications and Emergent Technologies, Open Source Innovations, and On-the-Ground Implementations. Presentation at the CityWLAN Conference in Lahti, Finland. August 28, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Keynote Address: Municipal and Community Wireless Networks: Surveying Their Social & Economic Benefits and Failings. Presented at the CityWLAN Conference in Lahti, Finland. August 28, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). CUWiN, Community Portals, and Beyond. Panel Presentation at the Community Technology Center Network Annual Conference. Washington, DC. July 27, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Keynote Address: Community Technology, Open Source, and Non-Profit Business Models. Tech-Mix Summit. Columbus, OH. July 13, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Regional Broadband Networks and Beyond. Presentation at the Tech-Mix Summit. Columbus, OH. July 12, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Mapping and Utilizing Community Broadband Resources. Panel presentation at the Alliance for Community Media Conference. Boston, MA. July 8, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Fixing What the Mainstream Media Broke: Broadband and Community-Building. Plenary presentation at the Alliance for Community Media Conference. Boston, MA. July 8, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Boston, CUWiN, & Open Source Tech. Presentation to the Boston Wireless Task Force. Boston, MA. July 6, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Open Source, Open Hardware. Moderated panel at the MuniWireless Silicon Valley Conference. Santa Clara, CA. June 18, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). The State of the Community Wireless Movement. Presentation to the FunkFeuer MetaLab. Vienna, Austria. May 18, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Regional Broadband and Telecommunications Development. Panel session at the Partnership for Progress Conference. Terre Haute, IN. May 3, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Keynote Address: The Social Benefits of Community Broadband Networks. Partnership for Progress Conference. Terre Haute, IN. May 3, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Opening Plenary and Welcome. National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, St. Charles, MO. March 31, 2006.
2006 The Second National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. Hour-long discussion on "Media Matters" hosted by Robert W. McChesney on March 26, 2006 on WILL AM 580.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Community Wireless Networking: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Presentation at the MuniWireless Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. March 6, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). CUWiN: The Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Spectrum Trifecta. Presentation at the MS-Tech Program Seminar. Urbana, IL. March 3, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Presentation at the Broadband for Cities and Towns Conference, Columbia, South Carolina. February 28, 2006.
2006 Meinrath, S.D. (2006). CUWiN and the Community Wireless Emergency Response Initiative. Presentation at the University of Illinois Community Informatics Brownbag in Urbana, IL. February 2, 2006.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). The Community Wireless Emergency Response Initiative. Plenary presentation at the 2nd Annual Illinois Community Technology Center Conference in Springfield, IL. November 16, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). The Community Media, Arts, and (Wireless) Networking Trifecta. Presentation at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Los Angeles, CA. October 18, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). The Social Benefits of the Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Spectrum Trifecta. Presentation at the MuniWireless Conference in San Francisco, CA. September 29, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). The Technology of the Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Spectrum Trifecta. Presentation at the MuniWireless Conference in San Francisco, CA. September 29, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). CUWiN: The Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Spectrum Trifecta. Presentation at the Rural Digital Divide Conference. Springfield, IL. August 31, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). CUWiN: The Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Spectrum Trifecta. Presentation at the Allied Media Conference in Bowling Green, OH. June 19, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). CUWiN: The Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Spectrum Trifecta. Presentation at the WiFi Planet Conference in Baltimore, MD. June 16, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Community Wireless Networks, Consumer Choice, and Public Policy. Presentation at the WiFi Planet Conference in Baltimore, MD. June 16, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Organizer and Moderator for Plenary Panel: “Openness and the Public Airwaves.” Presented at the MobiHoc Conference, Urbana, IL. May 26, 2005.
2005 Young, D. & Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Moments from Wi-Fi Subculture: Your Own Dynamic Wireless Mesh Network for 26¢ a Day. Presentation and demonstration to the 55th annual meeting of the International Communications Association, New York, NY, USA.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Community Wireless Networks, Participatory Media, and Public Policy. Panel presentation at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis, MO. May 14, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network: An Ethnographic Study of Citizen-Empowerment. Presentation at the 2005 Qualitative Inquiry Congress. May 5, 2005. Urbana, IL.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). CUWiN: Wirelessing the Revolution. Presentation at the Open Source Austin Community Networking Summit, Austin, TX, USA. April 28-30, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Presented as a part of the University of Illinois Communications Collaboration Conference in Urbana, IL. March 18, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Community Wireless Networks, Participatory Media, and Neighborhood Empowerment. Presented at the Institute of Communications Research Brownbag. Urbana, IL. March 9, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Community Wireless Networks, Participatory Media, and Empowerment. Presented as a part of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Planning Institute. Urbana, IL. March 3, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Community Wireless Networks, the Digital Divide, & the Case for Mesh. Presented as a part of “Municipal Wireless Networks: Bridging the Broadband Digital Divide.” Senate Commerce Committee Hearing Room. Washington, DC. Feb. 22, 2005
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Community Wireless Networks and Unlicensed Spectrum. Presentation to FCC Wireless Bureau staff. Washington, DC. Feb. 22, 2005
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). The Technologies of Community Networks. Panel session at the Educause Net@Edu Annual Meeting. Tempe, AZ. February 7, 2005.
2005 Meinrath, S.D. (2005). Community Wireless Networks and the University. Plenary at the Educause Net@Edu Annual Meeting. Tempe, AZ. February 6, 2005.
2004 Community Wireless Networks & Open Spectrum. Presentation to the Open Society Institute Information Program SubBoard. New York City, NY. December 13, 2004
2004 Community Wireless Networks: Policies, Laws, and Citizen Empowerment: What Every Lawmaker Needs to Know. Presented at the Spectrum Policy Workshop, Capitol Building, Washington, DC.
2004 Media Minutes Interview re: Indymedia servers are seized by the FBI at the behest of an unknown international complainant, damaging press freedom in dozens of countries. October 22, 2004
2004 Community Wireless Networks: Policies, Laws, and Citizen Empowerment: Rules for Regulators. Presented at the Federal Communication Commission, Washington, DC. October 4, 2004
2004 Community Wireless Networks as Radical Activism: The Case for Mesh. Presented at the FreiFunk.net International Summit on Community Wireless Networking. September 3-5, 2004, Glesborg, Denmark.
2004 Closing Plenary: Strategies and Next Steps to Build the Community Wireless Networking Movement. National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. August 20-22, 2004, Urbana, IL.
2004 Supporting Community Wireless Networks: Building Local, National, and International Coalitions. National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. August 20-22, 2004, Urbana, IL.
2004 The Community Wireless Networking Movement and the First National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. Hour-long discussion on "Media Matters" hosted by Robert W. McChesney on August 15, 2004 on WILL AM 580.
2004 Infecting the Sick Society: Political Performance as Virus. Crossroads Conference. June 25-27, 2004, Urbana, IL.
2004 Organized the Second Annual National Indymedia Caucus at the Annual Allied Media Conference. June 18-20, 2004, Bowling Green, OH.
2004 Creating and Maintaining Effective Media Spaces. Panel discussion at the Annual Allied Media Conference. June 18-20, 2004, Bowling Green, OH.
2004 Networking the Revolution: Community Building, Media Activism, and New Technologies. Panel discussion convened for the 2004 Radfest: Midwest Social Forum. June, 4-6 2004, Lake Geneva, WI.
2004 Media Activism and the Independent Media Center: an Update from the Frontlines. Panel discussion convened for the Union for Democratic Communications Annual Conference. April 22-25, 2004, Saint Louis, MO.
2004 One of 12 Participants in the Tactical Technology Wireless Summit. April 14-19, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2004 Advocacy Journalism. Online Roundtable Discussion for the Halifax International Symposium on Independent Media and Journalism, July 1-4, 2004, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
2003 Creating Sustainable Activist Organizations. Invited talk for the Be the Media! Media Reform Companion Conference, November 8, 2003, Madison WI.
2003 Peace and Social Activism. Invited talk for "Perspectives on Peaceful Living" July 18, 2003, Martha's Vinyard, MA.
2003 Opening and maintaining a community media space. Panel discussion conducted at the June 13-15, 2003 Allied Media Conference, Bowling Green, OH.
2003 The Global Indymedia Network and Urbana-Champaign IMC. Hour-long discussion on "Media Matters" hosted by Robert W. McChesney on June 8, 2003 on WILL AM 580.
2003 Indymedia and community empowerment: Participant experiences and future steps. Workshop conducted at the May 2003 GET UP! Grassroots Education Summit, Bloomington, IN.
2003 Media biases and critical consumerism: An internationalist perspective explicating flaws in corporate media coverage of world events. Invited lecture given as part of a series exploring pluralism and discrepant notions of reality, April 7, 2003. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2002 Racial inequities in education: the community-wide effects of institutionalized racism. Community forum on the outcomes of the School Climate Survey Project, October 10, 2002. Talk given at the School for Designing a Society, Urbana, Illinois.
2002 The Global Independent Media Center Movement. Hour-long discussion on "Media Matters" hosted by Robert W. McChesney on June 9, 2002 on WILL AM 580.
2002 Creating a global media alternative: The building of the Global Independent Media Center Network. Talk given as part of the 2002 Guest in Residence program at Unit 1, Allen Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2002 What Can You do for Your Country: Community Engagement. Panel discussion as part of the Martin Luther King Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2001 Non-profits and community empowerment. Talk given at the Lemp Neighborhood Summit. Saint Louis, MO.

Teaching Experience
2004 Coordinator, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Course Title: Political Performance and Social Action.
1999-2002 Organizer & participant-teacher, the School for Designing a Society. Course titles: Permaculture and Community Organizing for Social Change.
1998 Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Course title: Psychology 100 -- introductory psychology.
1997 Exploration Summer Program, Teacher and Residential Advisor. Course titles: Experimental Psychology and Environmental Issues.

Community Engagement
2006 Organizer, One Web Day, Champaign, IL. September 22, 2006.
2006 Charter Member, Save The Internet Coalition.
2006 Summit Director, National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. March 31-April 2, 2006. St. Charles, MO.
2006-Present Grassroots.org Toolbox Advisor.
2006-Present Member, CompTIA Education Foundation Leadership Council, Marketing Committee.
2006-Present Vice President, Development. Community Technology Center Network (CTCnet).
2006-Present Member, Telecenters America Project (TAP) Steering Committee.
2006-Present Treasurer Emeritus, Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.
2005-Present Member, State of Illinois, Rural Broadband Deployment Council.
2005 Coordinator, Community Wireless & Low-Power FM Radio Barnraising. Urbana, IL. November 11-13, 2005.
2005-Present Member, Board of Directors, Community Technology Center Network (CTCnet).
2005-Present Member, Advisory Committee, New America Foundation Wireless Futures Initiative.
2005-Present Coordinator, Community Wireless Emergency Response Initiative – providing emergency telecommunications following hurricane Katrina, Rita, and other disasters.
2005-Present Member, Broadband in Cities and Towns Conference Planning Committee.
2004-Present Member, Advisory Committee, Association for Community Networking.
2004 Summit Director, National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. August 20-22, 2004. Urbana, IL.
2003 Coordinator, Indymedia Summit. Held at the National Conference on Media Reform. November 8, 2003. Madison, WI.
2003-Present Coordinator, Indymedia Growth in Africa Project. Transnational initiative to expand the Indymedia Network by establishing new Independent Media Centers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
2003-2006 Member, Board of Directors, WEFT 90.1 FM Champaign, Community Radio Station.
2003-2006 Co-founder & Treasurer, Independent Media Center, UIUC Chapter.
2002 Co-founder, the Tactical Media Fund Foundation, International non-profit focusing on supporting grassroots media production in the Global South and in areas of extreme social and political conflict.
2002-2006 Treasurer, Global Indymedia Network.
2000-Present Co-founder & Executive Director, Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) R & D initiative to develop and build low-cost wireless broadband service network utilizing cutting-edge software and hardware.
2001-2006 Treasurer, Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.
2001 Founder, The Public i Newspaper.
2000-2006 Member, Board of Directors, Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.
2000 Member, Board of Directors, Common Ground Food Co-operative (CGFC).
1999-present Member, Champaign County Living Wage Association.
1998-present Member, Common Ground Food Co-operative.

Additional Experience
2007 Member, National Advisory Committee, Broadband in Cities and Towns Conference.
2005-Present FreeNetworks.org Core Organizer.
2005 Member, National Advisory Committee, Broadband in Cities and Towns Conference.
2003-Present Founder & President, Acorn Active Media Foundation.
2003-2004 Project Manager, Eggplant Active Media Worker Collective.
2002-2003 Project Manager, OJC Tech, Inc.
2001-2003 Accessibility and Usability Coordinator, OJC Tech, Inc.
2001-2004 Graduate Assistant, University of Illinois Office of Volunteer Programs.
2000-2001 National Biennial Planning Committee, Society for Community Research and Action, APA Division 27.
2000-2003 Division Representative, Psychology Department Graduate Student Organization.
1999-2003 Departmental Steward, University of Illinois Graduate Employee Organization.
1997-1998 Backpacked through Eastern and Western Europe, Turkey.
1996-1997 Student Coordinator, Yale recycling program.
1992-1993 Backpacked through Western Europe and Northern Africa.

Scholarly Affiliations
PACTLAB, Research Associate. Department of Speech Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Community Informatics Research Network
Global Telecentre Alliance
International Communications Association
Journal of Community Informatics (Editorial Board)
New Media & Society (Reviewer)
National Communications Association
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9)
Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27)
Society for the Study of Social Problems
The Yale Psychological Society
The Elizabethan Club of Yale University
The Elihu Club of Yale University

References
Available upon request.