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.
Advisory Council
Former Staff
Dan Blah
Dan co-founded OTF in 2012 and was the organization's inaugural director until 2019.
Advisory Council
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Daniel Kahn Gillmor is a Senior Staff Technologist for ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, focused on the way our technical infrastructure shapes society and impacts civil liberties.
Former Staff
Dan McDevitt
Dan joined the OTF team in December 2014.
Team
Di Luong
Di joined OTF in 2018 and is currently OTF's Product Manager.
Advisory Council
Ellery Roberts Biddle
Advisory Council
Emily Ratliff
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Former Staff
Fiona Krakenbürger
Fiona joined the OTF team in January 2019.
Advisory Council
Frerieke van Bree
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Advisory Council
Gunnar Hellekson
Gunnar Hellekson is the Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector group, where he works with systems integrators and government agencies to encourage the use of open source software in government.
Advisory Council
Gustaf Björksten
Gustaf has been gaining professional experience as a technologist and information security specialist since 1994, most recently in the area of surveillance technology.
Fellow
Hoàng Nguyên Phong
Phong will work with the Citizen Lab at University of Toronto over the next year to investigate the Great Firewall (GFW) with a focus on its abusive design of abusing IP addresses of non-Chinese entities in forged DNS responses.
Fellow
Information Controls Fellow
The fellow will investigate the underlying mechanisms used by China's Great Firewall (GFW) to identify and block various popular censorship circumvention protocols.
Fellow
Information Controls Fellow
The fellow will create a catalogue of user-created censorship circumvention techniques and identify methods that jointly maximize information accessibility and circumvention effectiveness
Advisory Council
Jac sm Kee
Jac sm Kee is a feminist activist working at the intersection of internet technologies, social justice and collective power.
Advisory Council
Jantine van Herwijnen
Jantine van Herwijnen is working for Free Press unlimited in the Gender, Safety and Accountabillity team.
Team
Jason Aul
Jason joined OTF in 2021
Advisory Council
J. Bob Alotta
Advisory Council
Jennifer Henrichsen
Jennifer R. Henrichsen is a Visiting Fellow at Yale's Information Society Project at Yale Law School and a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Advisory Council
Jillian C. York
Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines the impact of technology on our societal and cultural values.
