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Syd Young

Syd Young

Syd builds and maintains websites for EFF. They graduated from Yale, where they studied statistics and data science. They love Ruby, data privacy, and unsolved mysteries.

Will Greenberg

Will Greenberg

Will is a Senior Staff Technologist working on issues of police surveillance, carceral use of technology, the data broker industry, and "smart cities" on the Public Interest Technology team. He's also developing Certbot, and has two perfect little cats, Kira and Dax.

Katharine Trendacosta

Katharine Trendacosta

Katharine is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at EFF, where she coordinates EFF's federal activism. Her areas of expertise are competition, broadband access, intellectual property, net neutrality, fair use, free speech online, and intermediary liability. Before joining EFF, Katharine spent many years as a writer and editor at the science fiction and science website io9. She has had her work appear in many other publications, including Vice, Defector, Gizmodo, and Jezebel.

Jason Kelley

Jason Kelley

Every day, people across the world benefit from EFF's decades of work protecting their privacy, free speech, and creativity online, but many don't even know it. As the Director of Development Strategy, Jason works to reach those people with a clear message about how EFF supports them and their freedom—and how they can support EFF and its work in turn.  

India McKinney

India McKinney

As a former Capitol Hill staffer with over 10 years experience as a legislative staffer, India’s main job is to make sure that the laws of the land don't suck the life out of the internet. India’s passion has always been for good public policy, and she’s excited to be using skills developed during past legislative and appropriations battles to fight for encryption, for consumer privacy, and civil liberties in the digital realm.

Lena Z Gunn

Lena Z Gunn

Lena is Director of Technical Services at the EFF, overseeing the IT, systems administration, web development, and design teams that power the organization's digital infrastructure.

Erica Portnoy

Erica Portnoy

Erica works to explain and defend encryption, so that it can be accessible and strong for all who need it.

She writes and speaks about encryption in practice, including what people need from secure messaging providers, what the next generation of encryption in the cloud might look like, and how it needs to continue to be protected by law. She also develops the Let's Encrypt client Certbot, which makes it easy for people who run websites to turn on https, keeping their users private and secure against network-based attackers. 

Peter Woo

Peter Woo

Peter builds and maintains websites for EFF. After studying math at UC Santa Cruz he got started programming electronics and then for the web.

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