Meet the the people behind OTF. Our Team, Advisory Council, and Fellows are a large community of people who speak dozens of languages, are from all over the world, know a lot about Internet freedom, support hundreds of projects, and know how to make yours succeed.
Former Advisory Council
Abir Ghattas
Abir works with Human Rights Watch as an Information Security Associate Director
Team
Adam Lynn
Programmatic Advisor
Fellow
Ain Ghazal
Ain Ghazal is an Information Controls Fellow working with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) to study Censorship Resistance Systems in global VPN infrastructure.
Fellow
Alexandra Dirksen
Former Advisory Council
Alix Dunn
Alix is a specialist in organisational development and strategy, and technology for social change.
Board
Karen Kornbluh
Advisory Council
Amira El-Sayed
Amira works at Luminate, sourcing the organisation's Civic Empowerment grants and investments.
Amir Gh
Amir Gh is an Information Controls Fellow working with Jigsaw to develop tools to measure and report network level attacks intended to disrupt data flow and censorship mechanisms.
Former Advisory Council
Anthony D. Joseph
Anthony D. Joseph is Director of Intel Research Berkeley, and a Chancellor’s Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
Former Advisory Council
Arthur Gwagwa
Team
Ashley Lulling
Program Specialist
Fellow
Beau Kujath
Team
Ben Lynch
Ben Lynch joined OTF as the Surge and Sustain Program Manager in 2023.
Fellow
Ben Mixon-Baca
Ben Mixon-Baca is an ICFP fellow with the Censored Planet team at the University of Michigan, a PhD candidate at Arizona State University, and co-founder of BreakpointingBad.
Board
Ben Scott
Former Advisory Council
Berhan Taye
Berhan is a researcher who investigates the relationship between technology, society, and social justice.
Advisory Council
Bernard Tyers
Bernard is a user centred designer focusing on user research, and interaction design.
Former Advisory Council
Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist.
Team
Bryan Nunez
Vice President of Technology
