gavin@openstudents.org

Gavin Baker originally got involved with SPARC in 2006. He led international student group Students for Free Culture to join SPARC’s first Open Access Day of Action (now Open Access Awareness Day). He also ran for Student Senate at the University of Florida on an open access platform and successfully helped unanimously pass the first student government resolution endorsing the 2006 Federal Research Public Access Act.

After graduation Gavin interned at SPARC during the summer of 2007. There he worked on student outreach on open access, culminating in the pamphlet The Right to Research. For his work he was named a SPARC Innovator in December 2007.

Currently Gavin manages Open Students, a blog by and for students who care about Open Access.