Paharia, a 5th-year doctoral student at Harvard Business School, is interested in finding ways for people to consume more consciously. Previously, Paharia was on the founding team at Creative Commons serving as Executive Director. During that time she founded ccmixter.org, a music remixing website, and helped build a new semantic search engine. She volunteers on related projects that leverage the internet to make education more accessible, as co-founder of Peer 2 Peer University and acawiki.org (a "Wikipedia" for academic research).