Past Fellows
Aaron Gibson
Fellow
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 used for feedback. As an Emerging Technology Fellow and developer at the Tor Project, Aaron worked on renovating […]
Abbas Razaghpanah
Fellow
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. ICLab aims to provide a platform to enable rigorous and repeatable measurements of online information controls. Abbas made significant improvements to the client software by […]
Adnan Bashir
Fellow
Adnan worked with Calipr research group at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His project focused on investigating middleboxes in Pakistan to see how they impact internet freedom in Pakistan. Adnan is also pursuing his Ph.D from University of New Mexico with a prime focus on internet censorship.
Alexei Abrahams
Fellow
As a senior information controls fellow, Alexei worked with Citizen Lab to investigate information manipulation on social media in the Arabian Gulf. Alexei investigated information manipulation on social media in the Arabian Gulf. Combining big data science with regional and language knowledge, Alexei documented how Arabian Gulf states use automation of centrally controlled accounts (bots) […]
Amir Rashidi
Fellow
Digital Integrity Fellow Amir Rashidi is an internet security and digital rights researcher. He has over 10 years of experience in digital security and rights in Iran. Rashidi is an expert on Iranian Internet censorship, cyber-attacks, and security trends. He has conducted tens of digital security audits, trainings, and rapid response actions for Iranian human […]
Anthony Briand
Fellow
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. His work includes providing support in the case of threats such as website defacements, DDoS attacks, malware found on […]
Antonio Espinoza
Fellow
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. The analysis revealed a number of vulnerabilities and was presented at the 7th USENIX Workshop Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI).
Arthur Gwagwa
Fellow
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 and proposals for policy alternatives based on best practices where appropriate.. As a senior fellow, Arthur documented internet-based information control systems, policies and practices in […]
Arzu Geybullayeva
Fellow
Arzu worked with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University to advance understanding of information controls in Azerbaijan. Arzu significantly advanced understanding of information controls in Azerbaijan. She performed research around the country’s internet infrastructure and relevant country legislation, documenting past internet blocks and surveillance mechanisms used, and tracked network interference. A summary of her […]
Atnafu Brhane
Fellow
Digital Integrity Fellow Atnafu Brhane is a co-founder of Zone9, a collective of human rights defenders and bloggers. He was a Digital Integrity Fellow at Open Technology Fund.
Azeenarh Mohammed
Fellow
Azeenarh is a lawyer and grassroot activist who works as a holistic security trainer with at-risk communities in sub-saharan Africa. Her focus is on individual human rights defenders and the organizations that work to promote equality and acceptance. For her fellowship, Azeenarh worked to secure the entire LGBTI network in Nigeria, creating organizational security policies […]
Babatunde Okunoye
Fellow
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. Babatunde collaborated with the Tor Project to explore the reasons behind an apparent lack of adoption of circumvention tools, despite varying levels of censorship being prevalent […]
Beau Kujath
Fellow
Beau Kujath is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University, and member of BreakpointingBad. He recently completed his Information Controls Fellowship, working with the Citizen Lab and SocialTIC Many service providers or telecommunications companies in Central America incentivize users to install their mobile apps through promotions, SMS messages, and practicality. Furthermore, governments in the region […]
Bekah Overdorf
Fellow
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. Her background is in studying the effects that machine learning has on privacy and the ways that it can be used […]
Ben Jones
Fellow
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. He created a method to use open DNS resolvers to get a snapshot of DNS censorship across the entire world. Ben also developed risk mitigation techniques […]
Bendert Zevenbergen
Fellow
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. This included a paper exploring the ethics of a new censorship measurement tool. Ben also created a dedicated website, co-authored a paper on analyzing how […]
Bill Marczak
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Bill Marczak collaborated with the Citizen Lab to document the proliferation of commercial spyware and its use by states around the world. Through network scanning methods he uncovered evidence of 32 countries where at least one government entity is likely using the FinFisher commercial spyware suite. He also investigated […]
Chinmayi S K
Fellow
Chinmayi is an Indian researcher who has an interest in gender rights. She works in the intersections of gender and technology. As part of this fellowship Chinmayi worked with OONI to examine the censorship in Manipur a conflict state in India and its effect on the womxn. This research was carried out through analysis of […]
Claudio Agosti
Fellow
Claudio worked with Coding Rights to advance understanding around how advertising networks are being exploited by malicious actors. The project investigated numerous methods and environments while creating open tools to encourage further exploration. Coding Rights provided assistance with engaging targeted communities and in promoting awareness of the risks highlighted through this fellowship.
Cristian Leon
Fellow
Cristian Leon is a Bolivian political scientist and digital security trainer For his Digital Integrity Fellowship, he worked with social organizations to strengthen capabilities for investigation, documentation and safeguarding of human rights documentation, as well as providing them with digital security assistance to conduct programmatic activities. He applied specific strategies to do risk-modelling, generate protocols and policies […]
Daniel Riofrio
Fellow
As a senior OTF Information Controls Fellow, Daniel worked with the University of New Mexico to collaborate with Ecuadorian groups to study the characteristics of past DoS attacks and mitigate future attacks expected around the 2017 Ecuadorian electoral year. Daniel worked closely with UNM to perform a content analysis of twitter accounts and activists’ websites […]
Dhyta Caturani
Fellow
Dhyta Caturani is a feminist activist working on issues related to human rights, social justice, civil liberties, sexuality, women’s rights, and violence against women. Previously as a Project Coordinator at EngageMedia, she focused on the use of alternative media and technology within social movements to create positive and ethical change. She has co-founded a number […]
Diego Bravo
Fellow
As a seasonal Information Controls fellow, Diego worked with Citizen Lab over the summer to contribute to their security analysis of popular browsers. Many browsers widely used in repressive environments fail to protect their users. Diego also developed a tool to analyze an Android application to look for hardcoded encryption keys.
Emerging Technology Fellow
Fellow
The Emerging Technology Fellow studied Internet censorship in China looking specifically at the technical capacity, limitations and policies of the Great Firewall of China and domain fronting accessibility challenges. Their research contributed to the knowledge around the structure, motivation and capabilities of Chinese Internet censorship. The individual also assisted in the creation of chrome and […]
Enrico Calandro
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Enrico Calandro was hosted by Research ICT Africa to investigate African users awareness and experience of censorship, surveillance, and internet safety and security, in order to assess levels of trust and mistrust of the internet in three African countries: South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. Enrico also spent considerable energy […]
Enrique Piraces
Fellow
As a Seasonal Information Controls Fellow, Enrique Piraces was hosted by the Citizen Lab to perform the initial work to create a methodological framework and toolset for the collection, preservation, and sharing of information about the impact of technology on the privacy, safety and security of users with particular emphasis on human rights defenders and […]
Esther Rodriguez
Fellow
An an Information Controls Fellow, Esther assessed the security and privacy of a messaging application popular in several Asian countries. Esther worked with the University of New Mexico to identify vulnerabilities in LINE’s group chat protocol. While this assessment was being undertaken, LINE updated and disclosed the underlying protocol.
Gabrielle Lim
Fellow
Gabrielle worked with Data & Society to better conceptualize and map out the influence of disinformation and media manipulation in Malaysia, given recent efforts to limit press freedom and increase online information controls. The project explored how “security threats” can be utilized to enable authoritarian practices and the risks “fake news” can have on freedom […]
Geoffrey Alexander
Fellow
As a senior Information controls fellow, Geoff is working with Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto to develop new methods and tools for investigating malware enabled espionage operations against targeted actors like journalists and civil society groups. The project leverages the data resources of Citizen Lab to study malware campaigns and develop automated methods […]
Grace Mutung’u
Fellow
Grace worked with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University to perform an analysis and publication of a report on freedom online in the Uganda elections of 2016, monitor information controls applied by the Kenyan Government and the analysis of freedom online in the Kenyan elections of 2017. The Kenyan report was published by KICTANET, […]
Griffin Boyce
Fellow
As a senior Information Controls fellow, Griffin collected and analyzed the internet censorship climate in former Soviet states leveraging the resources of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University,. Censorship in this region in particular has received relatively scant attention from researchers and required testing to be performed from multiple endpoints in each of the […]
Gurshabad Grover
Fellow
As an ICFP Fellow hosted with OONI, Gurshabad studied decentralized controls for censorship in India, Pakistan and Indonesia. Gurshabad’s research, hosted at the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), examined jurisdictions with decentralized information controls. In these countries, internet service providers (ISPs) and other infrastructure providers are responsible for implementing government orders for censorship. ISPs’ […]
Gus Andrews
Fellow
Gus Andrews is a Secure Usability Senior Fellow. Her fellowship project will work with particular projects to identify what their usability needs are and develop solutions specific to their stage of development. These might include design workshops, metrics analysis, expert review, or more user testing. She will also be conducting an overarching research project that […]
Hammas Bin Tanveer
Fellow
Hammas Bin Tanveer is a senior ICFP fellow in Information Control with the Censored Planet Lab at The University of Michigan, currently working at the intersection of next-generation technologies and internet censorship. In recent times, censors have been involved in an arms race against censorship circumvention tools. One such censorship circumvention tool is Tor. Although […]
Hoàng Nguyên Phong
Fellow
During Phong’s OTF fellowship, he worked with the Citizen Lab at University of Toronto to investigate the Great Firewall (GFW) of China with a focus on its DNS filtering behavior. From his previous fellowship in 2018, Phong discovered the prevalence of an abusive DNS poisoning behavior of the GFW in which IP addresses owned by […]
Igor Valentovich
Fellow
As a Senior OTF fellow, Igor Valentovich worked with eQualit.ie to conduct a comparative research on the progress of information controls in the former Soviet Union space. He investigated instances of blocking and DDoS attacks against the online platforms of local civil society projects to identify common trends and isolate potent triggers of Internet censorship […]
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi worked with International Computer Science Institute to significantly advance the development of an incentive-compatible tool for measuring internet censorship at scale. This project leveraged the expertise at University of California, Berkeley to assess the tool’s security and privacy aspects and complete its implementation prior to the […]
Information Controls Fellow
Fellow
The fellow created a catalogue of user-created censorship circumvention techniques and identified methods that jointly maximize information accessibility and circumvention effectiveness From embedding text in images to rearranging word order of online posts, netizens in China continue to come up with creative ways to post content deemed sensitive by the government while evading censorship. This […]
Information Controls Fellow
Fellow
The fellow investigates the underlying mechanisms used by China’s Great Firewall (GFW) to identify and block various popular censorship circumvention protocols. There have been many reports from the users that their censorship circumvention servers were blocked. At the same time, preliminary experiments suggest that these censorship circumvention servers have been actively probed by the GFW. […]
Iryna Chulivska
Fellow
Iryna Chulivska is the co-founder and Head of the NGO Digital Security Lab Ukraine. She has been working as a trainer, auditor and consultant on digital security for journalists, human rights defenders and activists since 2016. Previously, from 2012-2017, Iryna worked at the Institute of Mass Information, which protects freedom of speech and journalists’ rights […]
Jason Q. Ng
Fellow
Jason is a digital activism instructor at Columbia SIPA and Yale University and author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China’s Version of Twitter. As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Jason continued his investigations into how information controls are implemented in Chinese social media. See Politics, Rumors, and Ambiguity: Tracking Censorship on WeChat’s […]
Jeffrey Knockel
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellows, Jeffrey Knockel collaborated with the Citizen Lab to document censorship on popular applications in China and develop new methods for side channel network measurements. Most recently, Jeffrey co-authored a report revealing significant security vulnerabilities in the popular Baidu browser. Prior to that, Jeffrey also worked extensively to highlight Chinese […]
Joey Shea
Fellow
Joey investigated digital surveillance and censorship in Egypt. She documented network interference during the 2019 Egyptian constitutional referendum and also monitored arrests based on digital expression. Her research situated these technological interventions within the broader social, economic, and political context in Egypt since 2013. She worked with Netblocks to document the censorship of an opposition […]
Jorge Sebastian Sierra Guerrero
Fellow
Jorge Sebastian Sierra Guerrero is a technology consultant with 11 years of experience. He recently managed security operations for a Fortune 500 organization, where he led the testing, implementation and improvement of hardened cyber security standards and policies. He provided specialized training to employees and directors to help them transition to a digital security-oriented mindset. […]
Joseph Bonneau
Fellow
Joseph Bonneau is a Secure Usability Fellow working at both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford. The main goals of his fellowship are to improve the state of the art of secure messaging with user-centered cryptographic architectures. In particular, on the EFF side he is working on improving the EFF’s Secure Messaging Scorecard and starting […]
Kat Krol
Fellow
Kat Krol is a Secure Usability Senior Fellow. During her fellowship, she will be focusing on tools for secure instant messaging looking at their usability and adoption. There is so much technically excellent encryption software out there, that has not been widely adopted due to poor usability and/or a mismatch between what the technology offers […]
Kathrin Elmenhorst
Fellow
Information Controls Fellow Kathrin worked with the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) to investigate HTTP3 censorship. QUIC is a new internet protocol which uses encryption by design and is the transport for the new major version of HTTP: HTTP/3. With the growing deployment of HTTP/3, Kathrin’s project aims to monitor the state of HTTP/3 […]
Kris Ruijgrok
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Kris worked with the SFLC.in to investigate the politics behind internet shutdowns in India. While India is the world’s largest democracy, year after year it also holds the dubious record of having the highest number of internet shutdowns worldwide. Through in-depth fieldwork in two Indian states where shutdowns are […]
Ksenia Ermoshina
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Ksenia worked at Citizen Lab to investigate information operations (censorship, shutdowns, targeted surveillance) in the context of armed conflicts and post-annexation in the former Soviet Union region, namely Ukraine and Russia. Combining network measurements, sociology and usability studies, Ksenia conducted fieldwork in the region to detect blocking mechanisms and […]
Lorenzo Primiterra
Fellow
As an accomplished mobile developer, Lorenzo worked with the Tor Project to develop a fully functional mobile app versions (Android and iOS) of the Open Observatory for Network Interference (OONI) testing platform in addition to adding new platform features such as OONI Run, a web based way to run an OONI test. These additions contributed […]
Mahsa Alimardani
Fellow
Mahsa Alimardani is an Internet researcher, looking at the intersection of technology and human rights, particularly in Iran. She’s currently a doctoral student at University of Oxford’s Oxford Internet Institute, while acting as a senior Information Control Fellow for the Open Technology Fund. She has over six years of experience doing research and project work […]
Maina Korir
Fellow
Maina is a Secure Usability Senior Fellow. Her fellowship consists of understanding user motivation and how it can better guide secure behavior, focusing specifically on e-mail. Her research will concentrate on these three questions: (i) To what extent does a lack of user motivation contribute to the low adoption and use of secure email?, (ii) […]
Marcus Michaelsen
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Marcus worked with Hivos to investigate digital threats against diaspora activists from Egypt, Iran, and Syria. The research assessed the methods, motivations and capabilities of state actors targeting human rights defenders and journalists beyond borders. It also examined the impact of these threats on the targeted communities and their strategies of […]
Marios Isaakidis
Fellow
Circumventing censorship with biton As an Information Controls Fellow, Marios worked with the University of Waterloo to further assess the viability of a new censorship circumvention technique that supports low-latency proxying and redundant file storage, both with plausible deniability. For that, biton constructs a peer-to-peer overlay network on top of BitTorrent swarms. This mechanism has […]
Michael Collyer
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Michael worked with the Oxford Internet Institute to research internet shutdowns. To better understand how researchers could classify and frame different types of shutdowns, Michael wrote a paper exploring the elements underpinning the terminologies and taxonomies of shutdowns. He also created an interactive database which brings together network data […]
Mohamed Tita
Fellow
Mohamed researched existing and potential circumvention techniques in Egypt The Egyptian government, like others worldwide, has dramatically escalated its censorship tactics in recent years – necessitating the exploration and development of new circumvention techniques. The project is a research and development effort focusing on the Egyptian internet censorship context while aiming on analyzing and documenting […]
Moses Karanja
Fellow
As an Information Controls Fellow, Moses Karanja worked with the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at Strathmore University to compare the nature, form, and threats in internet freedom from national security agencies in South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Moses has produced a report compiling the research performed. He also moderated a session […]
Natasha Msonza
Fellow
Natasha Msonza is a digital security trainer and privacy advocate based in Zimbabwe. She is co-founder of the Digital Society of Zimbabwe, a voluntary network of technologists advocates working to empower Zimbabwean human rights defenders and everyday Internet users to become more resilient and secure in their use of digital tools online and offline. Natasha […]
Nathalie Maréchal
Fellow
As an Information Controls Fellow, Nathalie Maréchal helped expand the Corporate Accountability Index to include software and devices in 2016 through testing potential indicators and adapting the current methodology. Nathalie further refined the 2015 methodology for the greatly expanded 2017 Index, increased outreach and support to other researchers and organizations interested in employing the RDR […]
Neil Blazevic
Fellow
Neil Blazevic is a technologist working with civil society in East Africa since 2008. He established the technology program at DefendDefenders, a Uganda-based human rights defender protection and support organisation. Through this program he has designed and delivered programs to offer digital security education and support and to foster a vibrant community of digital security […]
Nighat Dad
Fellow
Nighat Dad is the Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan. She is an accomplished lawyer and a human rights activist. Nighat Dad is one of the pioneers who have been campaigning around access to open internet in Pakistan and globally. She has been actively campaigning and engaging at a policy level on issues focusing […]
Pellaeon Lin
Fellow
As an Information Controls Fellow, Pellaeon conducted a security, privacy and censorship audit of TikTok, a short-video sharing social media app popular among young internet users. ByteDance, a China-based technology company develops TikTok, a video-based social media platform which is the first Chinese-made social media platform that reached global popularity, crossing 2 billion accumulated downloads […]
Phyu Phyu Kyaw
Fellow
This Fellow looked into the Myanmar government and the military’s surveillance and censorship capacity Kyaw is an internet freedom researcher. She is exploring and investigating the surveillance and censorship strategies used by authorities in Myanmar. She wants the internet to be accessible across the country and the technology to be human rights centered. As an […]
Poncelet Ileleji
Fellow
Poncelet O. Ileleji is a computer Scientist by Profession with 21 years in the field; he has been involved with the use of ICT as a tool for sustainable development both as a lecturer, researcher and consultant for the Gambia YMCAs, where he is the coordinator of the computer training centre and digital studio. He […]
Ramakrishnan Sundara Raman
Fellow
Ram’s OTF Fellowship at the Citizen Lab aims to develop a set of techniques and fingerprints to identify devices performing censorship, and measure their deployment in different countries. Ram’s OTF Fellowship at the Citizen Lab aims to develop a set of network measurement methods to locate and examine devices performing censorship, and measure their deployment […]
Rishab Nithyanand
Fellow
As a Senior Emerging Technology Fellow, Rishab worked to allow Tor clients to route around ISP and state-level surveillance bodies by focusing on AS level adversaries and designing potential solutions. He also investigated video games as a covert channel.
Ruba Abu-Salma
Fellow
Ruba Abu-Salma is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL) in the UK, supervised by Prof. M. Angela Sasse and Dr. Sarah Meiklejohn. All three are members of the Information Security Research Group. Ruba’s research focuses on taking a user-centered approach to the design and use of secure […]
Sergei Hovyadinov
Fellow
As a senior fellow, Sergei Hovyadinov worked with the Ranking Digital Rights Project at the Open Technology Institute to provide an in-depth analysis of the role of internet intermediaries in the execution of Russian state controls over the internet and how these companies adjust their operations and transparency practices in autocratic regimes like Russia. A […]
Shinyoung Cho
Fellow
As an Information Controls Fellow, Shinyoung worked with the University of Massachusetts-Amherst to study and improve the hegemony of the Tor network. The Tor network relies on volunteers to run relays in order for it to operate. If a large percentage of relays are operating on the same network, network-level adversaries can correlate the traffic […]
Simone Basso
Fellow
Simone worked with Measurement Lab at the Open Technology Institute to advance the MeasurementKit platform. Simone spent his fellowship focused on advancing the MeasurementKit platform. MeasurementKit is the engine underneath censorship detection tool OONI-Probe’s mobile testing platform and the Measurement Lab network performance testing platform, which generate millions of data points each year. Specifically, as […]
Stephane Labarthe
Fellow
After working during 12 years in France in IT security and privacy area – Stephane’s last experience was in the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) as IT auditor and digital security Manager. In Colombia, Stephane began work with Karisma Foundation, an NGO working for human rights in Internet and IT. Stephane began to work for […]
Sylvia Kanari
Fellow
Sylvia worked with East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network. Her project focused on investigating the ways in which government and other non-state actors are limiting freedom of expression and other rights online in Tanzania. Prior to this fellowship, Sylvia has actively advocated for Internet Freedom in Africa through research, supporting Internet governance […]
Taha Khan
Fellow
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are commercial services which play a key role in Internet freedom. They are used by individuals globally to attain privacy as well as to evade Internet censorship. While these services make certain privacy claims, customers do not have methods of verification of these guarantees, lack insight about their operational details and […]
Tawanda Mugari
Fellow
As a Digital Integrity Fellow, Tawanda advanced proactive digital security for new entrants that support at-risk communities in Zimbabwe. Tawanda is a Co-founder of Digital Society of Africa (DSA) that works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond […]
Tim Libert
Fellow
As a senior OTF Information Controls Fellow, Tim worked with the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation. He evaluated potential methodological expansions for the 2017 RDR Index to include companies that produce software, devices, and networking equipment. Libert’s PhD research at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on privacy-compromising information flows on websites, […]
Valentin Weber
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow Valentin Weber researched the diffusion of the Russian and Chinese information control models at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. During his fellowship Valentin co-authored a paper on mobile app store censorship, with a special focus on the availability of VPN apps in China and Russia’s […]
Virgil Griffith
Fellow
As an Emerging Technology Fellow, Virgil Griffith led a project to develop the Roster social incentive to gamify running a Tor relay.. As an Emerging Technology Fellow, Virgil Griffith led a project to develop the Roster social incentive to gamify running a Tor relay.
Vivian Zúñiga
Fellow
Vivian Zúñiga lives in Costa Rica, Central America. She has been an active member of Sulá Batsú Cooperative for 13 years, where she has worked in logistics, execution of different projects as well as digital training with different populations in the region. She is also part of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee of the Ministry of […]
Wafa Ben Hassine
Fellow
As a seasonal Information Controls fellow, Wafa worked diligently with the Electronic Frontier Foundation during her 6 month fellowship to produce a report analyzing the raft of cyberterrorism and cybercrime laws enacted in the Arab world.
Will Scott
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Will Scott worked with the University of Washington to release Activist.js, a tool that improves censorship resiliency for website owners.
William Tolley
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, William Tolley worked with the International Computer Science Institute to explore ways in which Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) leak private communications.
Zack Weinberg
Fellow
As a Senior Information Controls Fellow, Zack worked with the Calipr research group at University of Massachusetts – Amherst on improving censorship detection.