Kori Bernards

Kori Bernards is Vice President of Corporate Communications for the Motion Picture Association of America, the (MPAA) with headquarters Los Angeles. She is the head of public relations and communications for the west coast and the principal spokeswoman in enforcing piracy and copyright protection for the MPAA. She is known to the public as a result of suing online piracy hubs, including several popular BitTorrent trackers.

Before working for the MPAA, Bernards worked in politics, most recently as the Communications Director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, ("DCCC"), in the 2004 elections cycle, spending the final months of the campaign traveling with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Before that, she was press secretary to House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt where she served as his spokeswoman and travelling press representative.

Before working for Gephardt, Bernards was Communications Director for Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin for four-and-a-half years, and as press secretary for the House Appropriations Committee Democrats. During that time, she volunteered, and was a Board Member for Horton's Kids Inc., where she worked with poor children from Anacostia, helping them obtain health care services.

In 1996, Kori Bernards worked for Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala as a political appointee to the Health Secretary's public affairs office. She was Shalala's radio press spokewoman and travelling press coordinatrix. Bernard's first job in Washington was in the congressional office of Connecticut Representative Rosa L. DeLauro.

Ms Bernards is a native Californian who grew up in Orange County. Before going to Washington, D.C., she worked in Phoenix, Arizona, on several local and state campaigns, including the Clinton-Gore Arizona campaign in 1992. She has a Bachelor of Arts in political science degree from Regis University, Denver, Colorado.

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* [http://www.darknet.com/darknets Darknets, the MPAA and digital media]
* [http://www.etopiamedia.net/emtnn/audio/koribernards1.wma Audio comments about the MPAA's efforts to end illegal file-swapping of movies]

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