Jake Shapiro came to the Public Radio Exchange after serving as Associate Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he oversaw multiple projects related to intellectual property, distance learning, digital media, and Internet architecture, as well as holding responsibility for core strategic and administrative duties. He remains a Berkman Center Fellow.

Jake has been producer and director of business development for Lydon McGrath Inc.; he was a producer for "The Connection with Christopher Lydon"--a nationally syndicated call-in talk show from WBUR. He worked in research and web development at Harvard; among other endeavors, Jake developed web resources for the Davis Center for Russian Studies, the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, and the Harvard Central Asia Forum. He also spent two years in Moscow, Russia as program coordinator of the Moscow Institute for Advanced Studies. Jake is co-founder of L-Shaped Records, guitarist for the local rock band Two Ton Shoe, and studio cellist on many independent and major label recordings.

Jake graduated from Harvard in 1993, majoring in History and Literature; he is a fluent Russian speaker, plays guitar and cello, and lives in Brighton with his wife Elena Gorodenskaya.

As an only child of a musicologist mother and psychiatrist father Jake wonders if he was genetically predisposed to end up in public radio, and he remembers listening to ATC since about 1975 on the way to daycare...

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Jake Shapiro Links

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PRX Photo Gallery:
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Two Ton Shoe:
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