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Matthew Burnett is Associate Director of the Immigration Advocates Network at Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to justice through innovative uses of technology. He received his B.A. cum laude from the University of Washington, where he was a Mary Gates Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. cum laude from Seattle University School of Law, where he was a Public Interest Law Foundation grant recipient and on the editorial board of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice. Matthew clerked for Justice Z.M. Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Kate Bladow is an independent consultant and social entrepreneur who helps nonprofit organizations use technology to deliver client services. Previously, Kate worked for Pro Bono Net, where she helped access-to-justice communities develop LawHelp Interactive document assembly projects, and for Montana Legal Services Association, where she helped to launch MontanaLawHelp.org, a legal information website for the public, and MontanaProBono.net, a website that supports legal aid and pro bono lawyers. Kate grew up in Mayville, North Dakota and graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. She now lives in Baltimore, where she coordinates the Baltimore NetSquared meetings, blogs about technology innovations, and misses snow.
