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
Abir Ghattas
Abir works with Human Rights Watch as an Information Security Technologist.
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Alix Dunn
Alix is a specialist in organisational development and strategy, and technology for social change.
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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.
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Arthur Gwagwa
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Bernard Tyers
Bernard is an independent interaction designer/user researcher.
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Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist.
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Bryan Nunez
Bryan Nunez is a program officer with the Open Society Human Rights Initiative.
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Carrie Winfrey
Carrie is a Design Strategist and User Experience Designer whose work generates excitement.
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Chad Hurley
Chad joined the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ Office of Internet Freedom in 2018.
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Cheekay Cinco
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing.
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Dan Blah
Dan co-founded OTF in 2012 and was the organization's inaugural director until 2019.
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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.
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Emily Ratliff
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Frerieke van Bree
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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.
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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.
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Jantine van Herwijnen
Jantine van Herwijnen is working for Free Press unlimited in the Gender, Safety and Accountabillity team.
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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…
