EFF is pleased to welcome Elliot Harmon to its activism team. Elliot will be focusing on patent law and intellectual property issues. He's interested in ways that IP law can accelerate innovation rather than hinder it. He jumped right in promoting Open Access Week in October.

Before coming to EFF, Elliot worked as director of communications at Creative Commons. Prior to that, he was a staff writer for TechSoup. Before that, he worked in sales for a failing software company while finishing his master's degree in writing at the California College of the Arts. Both at TechSoup and at CC, he used his skills as a writer to untangle complicated legal and technical issues. He's excited to do the same here at EFF.

Elliot has performed around the country as a spoken word artist and published his poetry in several magazines. He's the founder of a small publishing company called Mission Cleaners Books. Say hi to him on Twitter.