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.
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Aaron Gibson
As an Emerging Technology Fellow and developer at the Tor Project, Aaron worked on renovating the Bandwidth Authority mechanism to decrease the amount of time spent scanning the Tor Network and to ensure that accurate measurements are…
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Abbas Razaghpanah
As a Seasonal Information Controls Fellow, Abbas Razaghpanah collaborated with the Citizen Lab to continue development of ICLab, a collaborative effort between Stony Brook University, Citizen Lab, and Princeton University.
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Adnan Bashir
Adnan worked with Calipr research group at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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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.
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Alexandra Dirksen
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Alexei Abrahams
As a senior information controls fellow, Alexei worked with Citizen Lab to investigate information manipulation on social media in the Arabian Gulf.
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Amir Rashidi
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Anthony Briand
Anthony Briand is a Rapid Response Senior Fellow working at Virtual Road to provide rapid response services to independent media and grassroots organizations that work in the fields of democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
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Antonio Espinoza
As a Senior OTF Information Controls Fellow, Antonio worked with the University of New Mexico to perform the first analysis of the encryption utilized by LINE, a popular messaging app in Asia.
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Arthur Gwagwa
As a senior fellow, Arthur documented internet-based information control systems, policies and practices in Southern and East Africa, including Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland, and Ethiopia, their implications for free flow of information…
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Arzu Geybullayeva
Arzu worked with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University to advance understanding of information controls in Azerbaijan.
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Atnafu Brhane
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Azeenarh Mohammed
Azeenarh is a lawyer and grassroot activist who works as a holistic security trainer with at-risk communities in sub-saharan Africa.
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Babatunde Okunoye
As an Information Controls Fellow, Babatunde worked with the Tor Project to investigate the use of information controls circumvention tools in four African countries: Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.
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Beau Kujath
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Bekah Overdorf
As an Information Controls Fellow, Bekah worked with online social networking data in Central Asia to identify fake accounts and monitor and assess their activities as well as their effect on the overall network.
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Bendert Zevenbergen
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Ben Zevenbergen was hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute to cultivate greater discussion on the ethical, legal and policy issues of networked systems research.
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Ben Jones
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Ben Jones worked with Princeton on their Censored Planet project with the aim of identifying safe means of measuring Internet censorship at scale.
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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.
