People behind OTF

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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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Former Staff

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…

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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.