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Peter
Maybarduk is Public Citizen's Global
Access to Medicines
Program Director. Maybarduk helps governments and civil society groups around
the world use flexibilities in patent and trade rules to promote access to medicines
for all. For example, Maybarduk's recent work with partners yielded major HIV/AIDS
drug price reductions in Colombia
and new state access to medicines policies enacted by the President of Ecuador.
His work also focuses on protecting competition and access under intellectual
property enforcement
policies, and on appropriate policy responses to criminally adulterated or falsified
medicines.
Maybarduk has co-founded and coordinated several volunteer-run advocacy and
assistance groups, including International Professional Partnerships for Sierra
Leone (IPPSL),
dedicated to supporting public sector development in one of the world's least
developed countries. He studied law at the University of California at Berkeley
and anthropology at the College of William and Mary. Maybarduk is a composer
and performer of music, currently recording his third album with producer J.
Robbins.
Peter
Maybarduk is a Washington, D.C.-based songwriter and a human rights lawyer with
Public Citizen.
Maybarduk's second album No Hay Pueblo Vencido (No Defeated People), produced by J. Robbins, features Spanish guitar, electronic pop and post-punk rock. Two of the record's songs, "Darker Days" and "Siddhartha on his Raft," won mention in this year's Mid-Atlantic Song Contest.
Maybarduk performs regularly at district venues, including Black Cat, Busboys & Poets and the Red & the Black. He also maintains an odd tour schedule synchronized to his international work. For example, Maybarduk headlined World AIDS Day ceremonies this year in Bogotá, Colombia.
Maybarduk is currently recording his third album, slated for release in summer 2011.
Born on July 4, 1979, to an American diplomat and a social worker in Mexico City,
Maybarduk has since lived and worked in Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Cuba, Venezuela
and Ecuador, among other countries, and across the United States from a reform
school in rural Maine to law school in Berkeley, California, where he fronted
indie rock trio Last Clear Chance.
In "Darker Days," Maybarduk sings, "I only want to be of use. To protect a people or an idea." Many of his songs wrestle with the challenges of creating both personal and political change.
Maybarduk's sounds range from electronic sample-based compositions ("Siddhartha on his raft") to conversations on Spanish guitar ("Sundays") to full-tilt post-punk rock ("Dom Helder Camara"). He self-released his first album, "Passengers," a narrative of introspective songs bridged by field recordings, in 2007.
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