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.
Team
Di Luong
Di joined OTF in 2018 and is currently OTF's Product Manager.
Team
Eman Jaradat
Eman joined the OTF team in April 2020.
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
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
Jenn Henrichsen
Jennifer R. Henrichsen is a doctoral research fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is researching the tensions between freedom of expression and regulation and surveillance by s…
Advisory Council
Jillian C. York
Jillian C. York is Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), where her work focuses on user rights, digital security, and Internet regulation.
Advisory Council
John Adams
John Adams is an independent security advisor, focusing on information security, user privacy, and secure distributed systems.
Fellow
Jorge Sebastian Sierra Guerrero
Advisory Council
Karen Renaud
Karen leads the Security Science Cluster and coordinate the Human-Centred Security Research Group.
Fellow
Kris Ruijgrok
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Kris worked with the SFLC.in to investigate the politics behind internet shutdowns in India.
Team
Laura Cunningham
Laura joined the OTF team in 2019
