Computing and Communications Center
Ithaca, NY 14853-2801
Telephone: 607 254-3584
E-mail: tbm3@cornell.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs at Cornell University. In addition to facilitating the development of university information technology policy, Mitrano directs the University Computer Policy and Law Program and, with Steve Worona of EDUCAUSE, the Institute for Computer Policy and Law. Currently she is on the boards of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, Teach Privacy, and Cornell Daily Sun, the independent student newspaper at Cornell University, as well as serving as co-chair of the Hawkins Leadership Roundtable for EDUCAUSE and Tompkins County Broadband Committee of the Legislature. This summer Mitrano will be teaching her sixth version of "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet" in the Cornell Summer College.
Mitrano writes a blog for Insider Higher Ed entitled "Law, Policy and IT?" Mitrano has a chapter in the forthcoming U.K. publication Collection Development in the Digital Age, entitled: "Information Literacy for the Academic Librarian in the Digital Information Age: Supporting users to make effective use of the collection." This spring Mitrano will be speaking at the Yale Law School's "Rebellious Lawyer's Conference" on a panel on student life, technology and LTBTQ Issues; at the Information Fluency Conference; at Loyola University, Maryland; and at NERCOMP in Providence, attending the Privacy Legal Scholars Conference in Berkeley California and speaking on cyberbullying at the National Association of College and University Attorney Conference in San Francisco. In September, Mitrano will also be giving the keynote at a copyright conference at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.
A graduate and faculty member of the Frye Institute, Mitrano served as faculty for EDUCAUSE's Seminars on Academic Computing, the Executive Leadership Institute and the Leadership Institute, and was a member of the EDUCAUSE Board 2006-2010. She served as a member of the InCommon Steering Committee for two terms, from 2004-2010 and has been a frequent speaker at conferences, colleges and universities on the subjects of Internet national and institutional policy, electronic surveillance and government regulation, social networking and privacy. Mitrano has a doctorate in American Women's History from Binghamton University and a law degree from Cornell Law School.
