Joshua Browder

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Joshua Browder (* 1997 in London , United Kingdom ) is a British-American entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Internet platform DoNotPay , which is supposed to help with legal issues automatically and free of charge.

Family and parentage

Joshua Browder was born to Bill Browder (born April 23, 1964) and Melanie Browder. Earl Browder (1891–1973, American Communist Party leader) is his great-grandfather , Felix Browder (1927–2016, American mathematician) is his grandfather and Andrew and William Browder (* 1934, American mathematician) is his Great uncle. Browder's grandmother is said to have fled Austria in the 1930s to escape the Nazi persecution of the Jews. In Joshua Browder's opinion, this is also a key factor in his commitment to human rights to protect refugees.

Study and commitment

Education

Joshua Browder has been studying at Stanford University , where his father studied, since 2017 . However, he regards his studies at Stanford as a "side project" and is considering leaving the university.

Civil society engagement

Joshua Bowder programmed an iPhone application for the international non-governmental organization (NGO) Freedom House ( Dupont Circle in Washington, DC ) in collaboration with David J. Kramer (Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor) to report on the Making freedom available to the world in 155 countries. The app has been downloaded 17,000 times. As a Youth Fellow of the NGO International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) ( Geneva , Switzerland ), he programmed an app to train lawyers in Burundi , Cameroon and Ghana on how to effectively defend economically disadvantaged clients. In 2015, he wrote an article in The Hill newspaper on civil rights and the death penalty.

Awards

  • Browder was placed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
  • 2015 he was selected by the Huffington Post as Huffington Post Entrepreneur Of The Week (Entrepreneur of the week) referred.

Web links

  • DoNotPay , website: get free legal help in under 30 seconds.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meet the teen taking on the parking ticket , BBC , December 6, 2015, last accessed February 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ Julian Robinson: The 18-year-old student who has saved British drivers £ 2MILLION in just four months: Teenager sets up free appeals website in his bedroom which has overturned 30,000 parking fines already , Daily Mail , December 28, 2015, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ Leigh Alexander and Iain Chambers. How tech can help asylum claims, homelessness ... and parking fines - tech podcast , Guardian Podcast , March 31, 2017, last accessed February 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Katie King: London student moves into Mark Zuckerberg's old house to develop tech that will 'take down' the legal profession , legalcheek.com, August 7, 2017, last accessed February 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Freedom House Releases iPhone App , Freedom House website August 27, 2013, last accessed February 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Houses Over Lives: The Hypocrisy of Discrimination Without Intent , June 30, 2015, last accessed February 17, 2018.
  7. ↑ Joshua Browder .
  8. ↑ Lucy Sherriff: Young Entrepreneur Of The Week ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Huffington Post, August 27, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Browder, Joshua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK