[tor-commits] [webwml/staging] Update board page with new board
sebastian at torproject.org
sebastian at torproject.org
Fri Nov 18 13:05:16 UTC 2016
commit 014f513547af396941ba043ca51b718995707b16
Author: Sebastian Hahn <sebastian at torproject.org>
Date: Fri Jul 22 13:06:57 2016 +0200
Update board page with new board
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<table>
<tr>
<td style="width:50%;">
- <div class="name">Caspar Bowden</div>
- <div class="caps">Director</div>
+ <div class="name">Matth Blaze</div>
+ <div class="caps">Board Chair</div>
<p>
- Caspar was an advocate for Tor in Europe and a specialist in
- data protection policy, EU and US surveillance law, PET
- research, identity management, and information ethics and
- philosophy. He was formerly the chief privacy advisor at
- Microsoft. He believed that people in every country deserved
- the right to privacy irrespective of national borders. He
- predicted US mass surveillance programs such as PRISM and was
- vindicated after the Snowden revelations. We miss him deeply.
+ Matt is a professor in the computer and information science
+ department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the
+ Distributed Systems Laboratory. He has been doing research on
+ surveillance technology for over 20 years, as well as cryptography,
+ secure systems, and public policy.
</p>
</td>
<td class="beige" style="width:50%;">
- <div class="name">Nick Mathewson</div>
- <div class="caps">Vice-President and Director</div>
+ <div class="name">Linus Nordberg</div>
+ <div class="caps">Director</div>
<p>
- Nick is one of the original developers of Tor. He's the
- Chief Architect of The Tor Project, Inc.
+ Linus is a longtime internet and privacy activist who has been
+ involved with Tor since 2009. Linus is a software developer who
+ specializes in network security and operating internet services.
+ Since his start at Tor he's developed code, run services, and
+ advocated for the Tor Project. He's one of the founders of the
+ Swedish digital rights organization DFRI (Digitala Fri- och
+ Rättigheter) and through that involved in the European umbrella
+ public policy organization EDRi (European Digital Rights).
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="beige">
- <div class="name">Roger Dingledine</div>
- <div class="caps">President and Director</div>
+ <div class="name">Cindy Cohn</div>
+ <div class="caps">Board Treasurer</div>
<p>
- Original developer of Tor along with Nick Mathewson and Paul
- Syverson. Leading researcher in the anonymous communications
- field. Frequent speaker at conferences to advocate Tor and
- explain what Tor is and can do. Helps coordinate academic
- researchers.
+ Cindy is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier
+ Foundation (EFF). From 2000 to 2015 she served as EFF’s Legal
+ Director as well as its General Counsel. Cindy first became
+ involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the
+ outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the
+ successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export
+ restrictions on cryptography. Ms. Cohn works to ensure that people
+ around the world have the right to access information and
+ communicate privately and anonymously, including mounting lawsuits
+ against NSA spying, providing legal counsel to computer programmers
+ building and developing privacy and anonymity tools, and helping to
+ develop the Necessary and Proportionate Principles applying
+ international human rights standards to digital communications
+ surveillance.
</p>
</td>
<td>
- <div class="name">Julius Mittenzwei</div>
+ <div class="name">Megan Price</div>
<div class="caps">Director</div>
<p>
- Germany-based lawyer and Internet activist.
+ Megan is Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis
+ Group, where she designs strategies and methods for statistical
+ analysis of human rights data for projects in places like
+ Guatemala, Colombia, and Syria. She is lead statistician on a
+ project in Guatemala in which she analyzes documents from the
+ National Police Archive. She is lead statistician and author on
+ three reports on documented deaths in Syria, commissioned by the
+ officer of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights.
+ Megan is on the Technical Advisory Board for the Office of the
+ Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, a Research Fellow
+ at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science,
+ and Human Rights Editor for the Statistical Journal of the
+ International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS).
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
- <div class="name">Ian Goldberg</div>
- <div class="caps">Chairman of the Board</div>
- <p>
- Cryptographer, privacy expert, and professor; one of the
- designers of <a
- href="http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/">Off-the-Record
- Messaging</a>.
- </p>
- </td>
- <td class="beige">
- <div class="name">Wendy Seltzer</div>
- <div class="caps">Clerk and Director</div>
+ <div class="name">Gabriella Coleman</div>
+ <div class="caps">Board Clerk</div>
<p>
- Lawyer, cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a
- href="http://chillingeffects.org/">ChillingEffects.org</a>.
+ Gabriella holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological
+ Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, her
+ scholarship explores the intersection of the cultures of hacking
+ and politics. She has authored two books, Coding Freedom: The
+ Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton University Press, 2012)
+ and Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
+ (Verso, 2014), which was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of
+ 2014 and was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American
+ Anthropological Association. She has written for popular media
+ outlets, including the New York Times, Slate, Wired, MIT Technology
+ Review, Huffington Post, and the Atlantic.
</p>
</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
<td class="beige">
- <div class="name">Meredith Hoban-Dunn</div>
- <div class="caps">Treasurer and Audit Committee Chair</div>
- <p>
- Meredith is an accomplished accountant, advisor, and
- banker. Her role is to help us make sure we're able to
- pass our corporate audits correctly, watch for internal
- fraud, tell us when we're doing things in a non-standard
- way, and so on.
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <div class="name">Rabbi Rob Thomas</div>
+ <div class="name">Bruce Schneier</div>
<div class="caps">Director</div>
<p>
- Rob is CEO and founder of Team Cymru, and a Cymru Fellow.
- You can learn more about Rob at the <a
- href="http://www.team-cymru.org/">Team Cymru</a>
- websites.
+ Bruce is an internationally renowned security technologist. He is
+ the author of 14 books as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and
+ academic papers. His newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier
+ on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Bruce is a fellow at
+ the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University,
+ a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board
+ member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (as well as the Tor
+ Project), and an advisory board member of EPIC and
+ VerifiedVoting.org. He is also a special advisor to IBM Security
+ and the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient.
</p>
</td>
</tr>
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