Prior to joining the EFF, Rory was a psychology researcher and instructor at the City University of New York. Their research centered liberation pedagogy and adolescents' use of social media, and on campus they advocated for protections of student and worker privacy, open science, and open education. They have also led digital security trainings for more than 10 years, primarily through the Brooklyn-based CyPurr Collective.
At EFF, Rory works to build community and foster collaboration among grassroots advocates. Their advocacy work focuses on keeping the internet as a true digital commons—an ecosystem that advances equity through open access and democratic digital infrastructure.
CrowdStrike, Antitrust, and the Digital Monoculture
Last month’s unprecedented global IT failure should be a wakeup call. Decades of antitrust inaction have made many industries dangerously reliant on the same tools, making such crises inevitable. We must demand regulators break up the digital monocultures that are creating a less competitive, less safe, and less free...
