Meet The Team
🤝 We're a group of creators helping to make the internet a better place.
Board of Directors
Elijah Waxwing
Director
Elijah is the co-founder of Riseup.net, the LEAP Encryption Access Project, and Thoughtworks. He's has been working on the issue of digital justice, autonomous infrastructure, and surveillance of social movements since 2000. Elijah is a software developer, systems architect, information security specialist, and manager.
Glenn Sorrentino
Board Chair
Executive Director
Glenn is the founder and Executive Director of Science & Design and serves on the Board of Advisors to Distributed Denial of Secrets. In his most recent role as Principal Product Designer at Salesforce, he led the design for products including Search, Voice, Identity, and Authentication. His work has been awarded multiple US patents, and invitations to collaborate with institutions like Harvard's Belfer Center and the World Economic Forum.
While at Salesforce, he provided pro-bono research and design services to open-source projects and non-profit organizations like Signal, The Calyx Institute, OnionShare, EFF, and Tor Project. Now, he's making it his full-time focus.
Micah Lee
Director
Micah is a cofounder of Freedom of the Press Foundation, serves on the board of Distributed Denial of Secrets and OpenArchive, and is the Director of Information Security at The Intercept. He is a computer security engineer and an open-source software developer who writes about technical topics like digital and operational security, encryption tools, whistleblowing, and hacking using language that everyone can understand without dumbing it down. In addition, he develops security and privacy tools such as OnionShare, Dangerzone, and Semiphemeral.
Serene
Director
Serene is a software engineer, ex-hacker, and the creator of the Snowflake pluggable transport. Away from the computer, she is a concert pianist who concertizes around the world.
Stefanie Daehler
Secretary
Treasurer
Stefanie is a librarian and educator, holding a Masters of Library and Information Sciences from Pratt and a BA from Cornell.
Her experience includes Penguin Publishing, The NYC Department of Education, and leadership at The Archer School for Girls.
Contributors
Ashley Di Battista, Ph.D.
Research Lead
Ashley is a retired clinical neuropsychologist, long time researcher with a PhD and user experience expert. She loves making the complex comprehensible and has a thing for wordplay and puns, too.
You can watch/listen to their co-hosted podcast at youtube.com/@whathefux or read her free articles on all things research and data how to's at medium.com/@ashley.dibattista.
Ese Udom
Engineering
Ese is a software engineer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He's been coding for nine years with experience building with Java, PHP, Android, AOSP, Kotlin, AWS, and other web technologies.
Florian Idelberger, Ph.D.
Research
Legal Tech
Florian is a researcher and consultant with a focus on legal tech and security. In his Ph.D. they focused on the evaluation of domain specific and controlled natural languages to bridge the gap between humans and machines when seeking to understand (computable) contracts. They also work on research related to Law & AI, such as investigating the capabilities, limitations and ethical/legal conundrums of employing AI models. In addition, they have a decade of experience of working on open-source licensing and improving open-source software.
Glenn Sorrentino
Design
User Research
Glenn is the founder and Executive Director of Science & Design. In his most recent role as Principal Product Designer at Salesforce, he helped build products including Search, Voice, Identity, and Authentication. His work has led to multiple US patents, and invitations to collaborate with institutions like Harvard's Belfer Center and the World Economic Forum.
While at Salesforce, he provided pro-bono research and design services to open-source projects and non-profit organizations like Signal, The Calyx Institute, OnionShare, EFF, and Tor Project. Now, he's making it his full-time focus.
Maya Ninova, Ph.D.
User Research
Maya is a user researcher and social psychologist based in Barcelona, Spain, with over a decade of international experience conducting human behavioral research. She also consults with organizations on research strategy and processes, and loves mentoring and teaching less experienced practitioners on the research craft.
Miguel Jacq
DevSecOps
Miguel is a DevSecOps engineer with 15 years of industry experience.
He works with many international businesses, non|not-for profits and community organisations to run safer, more resilient and efficient digital services.
Nicola Fabiano
Legal
EU Support
Nicola is an Italian lawyer, adjunct professor, and former San Marino Data Protection Authority President. He is also an IT professional and system administrator, certified as an ICT Security Manager, mainly focused on data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity, related to every aspect of technological innovation. He pays attention to the most innovative digital solutions, even testing them, and delves into aspects of compliance with data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity laws. About communication systems in general, he is very conscientious about respecting the principle of ensuring that data subjects are in control over their personal data. Nicola is the creator of the Data Protection and Privacy Relationships Model (DAPPREMO) based on high mathematics and set theory, and he is the author of articles, essays, books, and papers.
Ritik Shah
Engineering
Ritik is a passionate cybersecurity enthusiast armed with a Master's in Cybersecurity from Northeastern University. With a focus on SOC analysis and network security, Ritik is committed to fortifying digital defenses against evolving cyber threats.
Sam Schlinkert
Engineering
Technical Writing
Sam is an editor and programmer interested in privacy, usability and user documentation. He's written a series of open-source command line tools designed to fulfill specific security needs, such as creating and auditing passphrase word lists, reading QR codes for TOTP secrets, and checking KeePass databases for compromised passwords. Previously, he was a social media editor at CNN.
Saptak Sengupta
Engineering
Saptak is a Human Rights Centered Web Developer focusing on topics including security, privacy, accessibility, and localization.
He believes you can still make great UIs while respecting users' fundamental human rights.
Seth Brown
Engineering
An experienced software engineer obsessive about performant, scalable, and accessible code. Has lead projects ranging from seed-stage start-ups, to enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies. Advocate of maintaining code quality through creating organizational standards and TDD.
Sooraj Sathyanarayanan
Engineering
Sooraj is a cybersecurity and privacy researcher with a Master's in Cybersecurity from Northeastern University. He leads the blockchain research with a focus on user autonomy and self-sovereign digital identity. His professional path includes roles in IT audit, penetration testing, vulnerability management, digital forensics, and threat research. As the Chapter Lead at null NEU, he is committed to fostering a community dedicated to security awareness. He stands out as an opensource advocate, deeply invested in data privacy and digital rights.
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