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*Inga edulis*
Bách khoa toàn thư mở Wikipedia
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|[Phân loại khoa học](/wiki/Ph%C3%A2n_lo%E1%BA%A1i_sinh_h%E1%BB%8Dc) [Giới](/wiki/Gi%E1%BB%9Bi_(sinh_h%E1%BB%8Dc))( *regnum*) [Plantae](/wiki/Th%E1%BB%B1c_v%E1%BA%ADt) [Angiospermae](/wiki/Th%E1%BB%B1c_v%E1%BA%ADt_c%C3%B3_hoa) [Eudicots](/wiki/Th%E1%BB%B1c_v%E1%BA%ADt_hai_l%C3%A1_m%E1%BA%A7m_th%E1%BA%ADt_s%E1%BB%B1) [Rosids](/wiki/Nh%C3%A1nh_hoa_H%E1%BB%93ng) [Bộ](/wiki/B%E1%BB%99_(sinh_h%E1%BB%8Dc))( *ordo*) [Fabales](/wiki/B%E1%BB%99_%C4%90%E1%BA%ADu) [Họ](/wiki/H%E1%BB%8D_(sinh_h%E1%BB%8Dc))( *familia*) [Fabaceae](/wiki/H%E1%BB%8D_%C4%90%E1%BA%ADu) [Tông](/wiki/T%C3%B4ng_(sinh_h%E1%BB%8Dc))( *tribus*) [Ingeae](/w/index.php?title=Ingeae&action=edit&redlink=1) [Chi](/wiki/Chi_(sinh_h%E1%BB%8Dc))( *genus*) [Inga](/wiki/Inga) [Loài](/wiki/Lo%C3%A0i)( *species*) **I. edulis** [Danh pháp hai phần](/wiki/Danh_ph%C3%A1p_hai_ph%E1%BA%A7n) *Inga edulis* [Mart.](/w/index.php?title=Carl_Friedrich_Philipp_von_Martius&action=edit&redlink=1) [Danh pháp đồng nghĩa](/wiki/T%C3%AAn_%C4%91%E1%BB%93ng_ngh%C4%A9a_(sinh_v%E1%BA%ADt_h%E1%BB%8Dc))
Xem trong bài
* là một loài Inga edulis* [thực vật có hoa](/wiki/Th%E1%BB%B1c_v%E1%BA%ADt_c%C3%B3_hoa)trong [họ Đậu](/wiki/H%E1%BB%8D_%C4%90%E1%BA%ADu). Loài này được Mart. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên. [[1]](#cite_note-1)
## Hình ảnh[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Inga_edulis&veaction=edit&vesection=1) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Inga_edulis&action=edit§ion=1)]
## Chú thích[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Inga_edulis&veaction=edit&vesection=2) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Inga_edulis&action=edit§ion=2)] **The Plant List (2010).** [^](#cite_ref-1) [“](http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/ild-221). Truy cập ngày 5 tháng 6 năm 2013. *Inga edulis*”
## Liên kết ngoài[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Inga_edulis&veaction=edit&vesection=3) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Inga_edulis&action=edit§ion=3)]
Phương tiện liên quan tới
[Inga edulis](//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Inga_edulis)tại [Wikimedia Commons](/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons)
Dữ liệu liên quan tới
[Inga edulis](//species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inga_edulis)tại [Wikispecies](/wiki/Wikispecies)

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# Long Thành (thị trấn Đồng Nai)
Bách khoa toàn thư mở Wikipedia
(đổi hướng từ
[Long Thành (thị trấn)](/w/index.php?title=Long_Th%C3%A0nh_(th%E1%BB%8B_tr%E1%BA%A5n)&redirect=no))
Thị trấn cùng tên thuộc tỉnh Trà Vinh, xem
[Long Thành, Duyên Hải](/wiki/Long_Th%C3%A0nh_(th%E1%BB%8B_tr%E1%BA%A5n_Tr%C3%A0_Vinh)), các nghĩa khác xem [Long Thành (định hướng)](/wiki/Long_Th%C3%A0nh_(%C4%91%E1%BB%8Bnh_h%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bng))
|Long Thành|
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|Vị trí Long Thành trên bản đồ Việt Nam|
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[Việt Nam](/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam) [Đồng Nai](/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_Nai) [Long Thành](/wiki/Long_Th%C3%A0nh) [[1]](#cite_note-MS-1) **Long Thành** là một [thị trấn](/wiki/Th%E1%BB%8B_tr%E1%BA%A5n_(Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam)) thuộc [huyện](/wiki/Huy%E1%BB%87n_(Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam)) [Long Thành](/wiki/Long_Th%C3%A0nh), [tỉnh](/wiki/T%E1%BB%89nh_(Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam)) [Đồng Nai](/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_Nai), [Việt Nam](/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam).
Thị trấn nằm trên
[quốc lộ 51](/wiki/Qu%E1%BB%91c_l%E1%BB%99_51).
Thị trấn có diện tích 9.15 km², dân số năm 2009 là 27.084 người,
. [1]
Huyện Long Thành có vị trí địa lý chiến lược và thuận lợi phát triển kinh tế; giáp
[Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh](/wiki/Th%C3%A0nh_ph%E1%BB%91_H%E1%BB%93_Ch%C3%AD_Minh), tỉnh [Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu](/wiki/B%C3%A0_R%E1%BB%8Ba_-_V%C5%A9ng_T%C3%A0u). Long Thành đang được đầu tư với quy mô lớn: [sân bay quốc tế Long Thành](/wiki/S%C3%A2n_bay_qu%E1%BB%91c_t%E1%BA%BF_Long_Th%C3%A0nh) dự kiến lớn nhất Việt Nam.
## Chú thích[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Long_Th%C3%A0nh_(th%E1%BB%8B_tr%E1%BA%A5n_%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_Nai)&veaction=edit&vesection=1) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Long_Th%C3%A0nh_(th%E1%BB%8B_tr%E1%BA%A5n_%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_Nai)&action=edit§ion=1)]
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**a** **ă** **â** **b** [“Mã số đơn vị hành chính Việt Nam”](http://mic.gov.vn/uploads/20100623/E124-2009%20(31-12)2-MSDVHCVN.xls). Bộ Thông tin & Truyền thông. Truy cập ngày 10 tháng 4 năm 2012.
Thị trấn Long Thành có 6 khu phố: khu Văn Hải, khu Phước Hải, khu Phước Thuận, Khu Phước Long, khu Kim Sơn và khu Cầu Xéo
## Xem thêm[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Long_Th%C3%A0nh_(th%E1%BB%8B_tr%E1%BA%A5n_%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_Nai)&veaction=edit&vesection=2) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Long_Th%C3%A0nh_(th%E1%BB%8B_tr%E1%BA%A5n_%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_Nai)&action=edit§ion=2)]
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# Marakkanam
Bách khoa toàn thư mở Wikipedia
[Tọa độ](/wiki/H%E1%BB%87_t%E1%BB%8Da_%C4%91%E1%BB%99_%C4%91%E1%BB%8Ba_l%C3%BD): [12°12′B 79°57′Đ / 12,2°B 79,95°Đ](//tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=vi&pagename=Marakkanam¶ms=12.2_N_79.95_E_)
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[Tọa độ](/wiki/T%E1%BB%8Da_%C4%91%E1%BB%99) [12.2° B 79.95° Đ](http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=vi&pagename=Marakkanam¶ms=12.2_N_79.95_E_region:IN_type:city) [Diện tích](/wiki/Di%E1%BB%87n_t%C3%ADch)
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[Độ cao](/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%99_cao)
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[Múi giờ](/wiki/M%C3%BAi_gi%E1%BB%9D) [IST](/wiki/Gi%E1%BB%9D_chu%E1%BA%A9n_%E1%BA%A4n_%C4%90%E1%BB%99)( [UTC+5:30](/wiki/UTC%2B5:30)) **(** [Dân số](/wiki/D%C3%A2n_s%E1%BB%91) [2001](/wiki/2001))
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[Mật độ](/wiki/M%E1%BA%ADt_%C4%91%E1%BB%99_d%C3%A2n_s%E1%BB%91)
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**Marakkanam** là một [thị xã panchayat](/w/index.php?title=Th%E1%BB%8B_x%C3%A3_panchayat&action=edit&redlink=1) của [quận Viluppuram](/w/index.php?title=Qu%E1%BA%ADn_Viluppuram&action=edit&redlink=1) thuộc [bang](/wiki/Ph%C3%A2n_c%E1%BA%A5p_h%C3%A0nh_ch%C3%ADnh_%E1%BB%9F_%E1%BA%A4n_%C4%90%E1%BB%99) [Tamil Nadu](/wiki/Tamil_Nadu), [Ấn Độ](/wiki/%E1%BA%A4n_%C4%90%E1%BB%99).
## Địa lý[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Marakkanam&veaction=edit&vesection=1) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Marakkanam&action=edit§ion=1)]
Marakkanam có vị trí
[12.2° B 79.95° Đ](http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=vi&pagename=Marakkanam¶ms=12.2_N_79.95_E_) Nó có độ cao trung bình là 14 [1] [mét](/wiki/M%C3%A9t)(45 [feet](/wiki/Foot)).
## Nhân khẩu[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Marakkanam&veaction=edit&vesection=2) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Marakkanam&action=edit§ion=2)]
Theo điều tra dân số năm 2001 của Ấn Độ
, Marakkanam có dân số 19.153 người. Phái nam chiếm 50% tổng số dân và phái nữ chiếm 50%. Marakkanam có tỷ lệ 61% [2] [biết đọc biết viết](/wiki/Bi%E1%BA%BFt_ch%E1%BB%AF), cao hơn tỷ lệ trung bình toàn quốc là 59,5%: tỷ lệ cho phái nam là 70%, và tỷ lệ cho phái nữ là 52%. Tại Marakkanam, 13% dân số nhỏ hơn 6 tuổi.
## Tham khảo[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Marakkanam&veaction=edit&vesection=3) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Marakkanam&action=edit§ion=3)] [^](#cite_ref-geoloc_1-0) [“Marakkanam”](http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/25/Marakkanam.html). *Falling Rain Genomics, Inc*. Truy cập 5 tháng 4 năm 2008. [^](#cite_ref-2) [“Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns. (Provisional)”](http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999). Census Commission of India. Truy cập ngày 3 tháng 9 năm 2007.

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# Thể loại:Họ Hồng tước
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*Bài chính thể loại:* [Họ Hồng tước](/wiki/H%E1%BB%8D_H%E1%BB%93ng_t%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bc)
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## Thể loại con
Thể loại này gồm thể loại con sau.
### P
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[Passerina (Cardinalidae)](/wiki/Th%E1%BB%83_lo%E1%BA%A1i:Passerina_(Cardinalidae)) (7 tr.)
## Các trang trong thể loại “Họ Hồng tước”
118 trang sau nằm trong thể loại này, trên tổng số 118 trang.
### C
[Cantorchilus](/wiki/Cantorchilus) [Cantorchilus griseus](/wiki/Cantorchilus_griseus) [Cantorchilus guarayanus](/wiki/Cantorchilus_guarayanus) [Cantorchilus leucopogon](/wiki/Cantorchilus_leucopogon) [Cantorchilus leucotis](/wiki/Cantorchilus_leucotis) [Cantorchilus longirostris](/wiki/Cantorchilus_longirostris) [Cantorchilus modestus](/wiki/Cantorchilus_modestus) [Cantorchilus nigricapillus](/wiki/Cantorchilus_nigricapillus) [Cantorchilus semibadius](/wiki/Cantorchilus_semibadius) [Cantorchilus superciliaris](/wiki/Cantorchilus_superciliaris) [Cantorchilus thoracicus](/wiki/Cantorchilus_thoracicus) [Cardinalis](/wiki/Cardinalis) [Cardinalis cardinalis](/wiki/Cardinalis_cardinalis) [Cardinalis phoeniceus](/wiki/Cardinalis_phoeniceus) [Cardinalis sinuatus](/wiki/Cardinalis_sinuatus) [Caryothraustes](/wiki/Caryothraustes) [Caryothraustes canadensis](/wiki/Caryothraustes_canadensis) [Caryothraustes poliogaster](/wiki/Caryothraustes_poliogaster) [Catherpes mexicanus](/wiki/Catherpes_mexicanus) [Chlorothraupis](/wiki/Chlorothraupis) [Chlorothraupis carmioli](/wiki/Chlorothraupis_carmioli) [Chlorothraupis olivacea](/wiki/Chlorothraupis_olivacea) [Chlorothraupis stolzmanni](/wiki/Chlorothraupis_stolzmanni) [Cinnycerthia](/wiki/Cinnycerthia) [Cinnycerthia fulva](/wiki/Cinnycerthia_fulva) [Cinnycerthia olivascens](/wiki/Cinnycerthia_olivascens) [Cinnycerthia peruana](/wiki/Cinnycerthia_peruana) [Cinnycerthia unirufa](/wiki/Cinnycerthia_unirufa) [Cistothorus](/wiki/Cistothorus) [Cyanocompsa](/wiki/Cyanocompsa) [Cyanocompsa brissonii](/wiki/Cyanocompsa_brissonii) [Cyanocompsa cyanoides](/wiki/Cyanocompsa_cyanoides) [Cyanocompsa parellina](/wiki/Cyanocompsa_parellina) [Cyanoloxia](/wiki/Cyanoloxia) [Cyanoloxia glaucocaerulea](/wiki/Cyanoloxia_glaucocaerulea) [Cyphorhinus](/wiki/Cyphorhinus) [Cyphorhinus arada](/wiki/Cyphorhinus_arada) [Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus](/wiki/Cyphorhinus_phaeocephalus) [Cyphorhinus thoracicus](/wiki/Cyphorhinus_thoracicus)
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### P
[Passerina](/wiki/Passerina) [Periporphyrus](/wiki/Periporphyrus) [Periporphyrus erythromelas](/wiki/Periporphyrus_erythromelas) [Pheucticus](/wiki/Pheucticus) [Pheucticus aureoventris](/wiki/Pheucticus_aureoventris) [Pheucticus chrysogaster](/wiki/Pheucticus_chrysogaster) [Pheucticus chrysopeplus](/wiki/Pheucticus_chrysopeplus) [Pheucticus melanocephalus](/wiki/Pheucticus_melanocephalus) [Pheucticus tibialis](/wiki/Pheucticus_tibialis) [Pheugopedius](/wiki/Pheugopedius) [Pheugopedius atrogularis](/wiki/Pheugopedius_atrogularis) [Pheugopedius coraya](/wiki/Pheugopedius_coraya) [Pheugopedius eisenmanni](/wiki/Pheugopedius_eisenmanni) [Pheugopedius euophrys](/wiki/Pheugopedius_euophrys) [Pheugopedius fasciatoventris](/wiki/Pheugopedius_fasciatoventris) [Pheugopedius felix](/wiki/Pheugopedius_felix) [Pheugopedius genibarbis](/wiki/Pheugopedius_genibarbis) [Pheugopedius maculipectus](/wiki/Pheugopedius_maculipectus) [Pheugopedius mystacalis](/wiki/Pheugopedius_mystacalis) [Pheugopedius rutilus](/wiki/Pheugopedius_rutilus) [Pheugopedius sclateri](/wiki/Pheugopedius_sclateri) [Pheugopedius spadix](/wiki/Pheugopedius_spadix) [Piranga bidentata](/wiki/Piranga_bidentata) [Piranga erythrocephala](/wiki/Piranga_erythrocephala) [Piranga flava](/wiki/Piranga_flava) [Piranga leucoptera](/wiki/Piranga_leucoptera) [Piranga ludoviciana](/wiki/Piranga_ludoviciana) [Piranga olivacea](/wiki/Piranga_olivacea) [Piranga roseogularis](/wiki/Piranga_roseogularis) [Piranga rubra](/wiki/Piranga_rubra) [Piranga rubriceps](/wiki/Piranga_rubriceps)

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Trợ giúp
Thể loại:Xung đột năm 1785
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Các trang trong thể loại “Xung đột năm 1785”
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Thể loại
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# Tom Nicon
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|Tom Nicon|
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|[d'management group](/w/index.php?title=D%27management_Group&action=edit&redlink=1)(Milan)
& others
**Tom Nicon** ( [22 tháng 3](/wiki/22_th%C3%A1ng_3) [1988](/wiki/1988) – [18 tháng 6](/wiki/18_th%C3%A1ng_6) [2010](/wiki/2010)) người mẫu nổi tiếng của các nhãn hiệu [Burberry](/wiki/Burberry), [Louis Vuitton](/wiki/Louis_Vuitton), [GQ](/w/index.php?title=GQ&action=edit&redlink=1) và [Vogue](/wiki/Vogue_(t%E1%BA%A1p_ch%C3%AD)), anh chết khi nhảy từ tầng 4 nhà riêng xuống. [[1]](#cite_note-vnexpress-1)
## Tự tử[
[sửa](/w/index.php?title=Tom_Nicon&veaction=edit&vesection=1) | [sửa mã nguồn](/w/index.php?title=Tom_Nicon&action=edit§ion=1)]
- Thi thể anh được tìm thấy tại nhà riêng ở Milan, Italy. Cảnh sát khẳng định nguyên nhân ban đầu của cái chết là do anh đã ngã xuống từ cửa sổ tầng 4. Trước đó, Tom đã tham gia buổi tập luyện chuẩn bị sự kiện tuần lễ thời trang dành cho nam giới được tổ chức tại Milan
. [1]
- Bạn của Tom cho biết trong thời gian gần đây canh ấy rất suy sụp, thậm chí thường xuyên rơi vào trạng thái trầm cảm sau khi chia tay với người yêu.
- Cái chết của Tom khiến cho bạn bè, đồng nghiệp vô cùng sững sờ và nuối tiếc, bởi anh mới 22 tuổi và vẫn còn cả một sự nghiệp đầy hứa hẹn ở phía trước.


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## EFF's Staff
Please be respectful of the time of our attorneys. Direct all legal inquiries, not to the individual attorney, but to
[info@eff.org](mailto:info@eff.org). All inquiries will be routed to [info@eff.org](mailto:info@eff.org). For expedited responses to media inquiries, please email [press@eff.org](mailto:press@eff.org).
EFF would like to thank
[Erich Valo Photography](http://www.erichmorton.com/) for his generous help in shooting many of these staff photos.
[David Bogado](/vi/about/staff/david-bogado)
### Latin American Community Development Coordinator
David Bogado Yegros is a Paraguay-based journalist with interests in Internet growth in Latin America, telecommunications regulation and digital rights. Since 2007 he has integrated himself into local media, with an internship as radio operator for sports programming. He also studied voice-over, video editing and web design while earning a Bachelor of Science in Communication at the Catholic University of Asunción.
In recent years he was an award-winning blogger, multimedia reporter, producer, and radio co-host, covering politics, current affairs, media, and technology. He was also involved in creating special reports on cybercrime, sports and the Paraguay presidential elections of 2013. Before coming to EFF, he collaborated at TEDIC, a Paraguayan pioneer NGO related to Human Rights defense in the digital field and led a successful campaign against the Data Retention bill called "Pyrawebs," which it was rejected first in the House of Representatives and later in the Senate. Bogado is an op-ed columnist for the news site Ejempla.com on tech and current affairs. Other interests are to improve at playing saxophone, follows his soccer team Club Olimpia, and collecting rock albums.
![ David Bogado](https://www.eff.org/files/styles/staff_thumb/public/2015/06/30/bogado_-_medium.jpg?itok=uc2KIxax)
[David Bogado](/vi/about/staff/david-bogado)'s extended bio
[Caroline Bokman](/vi/about/staff/caroline-bokman-2)
### Staff Accountant
Caroline moved to San Francisco in 1994 from New Jersey. She began money management and bookkeeping in a variety of professions; retail, service, and corporate, by temp-ing and taking different jobs. She mostly found a home as Office Manager and bookkeeper at DNA Lounge from 2002-2013.
Taking the next step, she finally went back to school and completed her accounting degree at Golden Gate University in 2014. Since then, she has worked for a publicly traded software company in San Mateo, but is happy to be back in the city now with the EFF!
Downtime includes driving her two teenage boys around town, playing music with her band, and riding motorcycles for fun, alone or with the San Francisco Motorcycle Club.
(415) 436-9333 x178 office
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[Caroline Bokman](/vi/about/staff/caroline-bokman-2)'s extended bio
[Vivian Brown](/vi/about/staff/vivian-brown)
### Web Developer
Vivian creates and maintains websites for EFF. Previously, she worked as a web developer in a technology and design cooperative where she built sites for social change organizations. Some of her other past projects include applying machine learning to birdsong and mapping Oakland campaign finance data. For fun she likes giving haircuts, reading about economics, cooking with friends, and writing to her pen pal.
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[William Budington](/vi/about/staff/william-budington)
### Software Engineer
Bill is a long time activist, programmer, and cryptography enthusiast. He works on EFF's Tech Projects team as a software and security engineer, currently maintaining
[HTTPS Everywhere](https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) and [Panopticlick](https://panopticlick.eff.org/). He has also contributed to projects such as [Let's Encrypt](https://www.letsencrypt.org/) and [SecureDrop](https://securedrop.org/). He talks to crowds of people on soap boxes and stages in far off places, and sometimes they listen. Sometimes, he does security trainings for organizations. He loves hacker spaces and getting together with other techies to tinker, code, share, and build the technological commons. Er spricht auch gern Deutsch!
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[Mark Burdett](/vi/about/staff/mark-burdett)
### Senior Engineer
Mark Burdett is Senior Engineer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Mark previously served as EFF's technology operations director. Before joining EFF, Mark co-founded a worker-owned technology cooperative providing software development and IT solutions for non-profit organizations, startups, and universities such as MIT and the University of Southern California. Mark also works on media activism projects, builds community wireless networks, jaywalks avidly and, of course, teaches ducks how to program.
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[Ben Burke](/vi/about/staff/ben-burke)
### System Administrator
Ben is a recent (Dec. 2014) addition to the sysadmin team. He is trying to automate himself out of a job. When not hacking on EFF stuff, he enjoys hacking on robots and exploring the national and regional parks. Some Ben keywords: mac, python, Belgium, Windsor, East Bay, sudo room, USAP.
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[Shahid Buttar](/vi/about/staff/shahid-buttar)
### Director of Grassroots Advocacy
Shahid leads EFF's grassroots and student outreach efforts. He's a constitutional lawyer focused on the intersection of community organizing and policy reform as a lever to shift legal norms, with roots in communities across the country resisting mass surveillance. Since graduating from
[Stanford Law School](https://law.stanford.edu/) in 2003, Shahid worked in private practice promoting campaign finance reform and marriage equality for same-sex couples, built the communications team at the [American Constitution Society for Law & Policy](http://www.acslaw.org/), and founded the program to combat racial & religious profiling at [Muslim Advocates](https://www.muslimadvocates.org/). From 2009 to 2015, he led the [Bill of Rights Defense Committee](http://bordc.org/) as Executive Director. Outside of work, he [DJs](https://www.mixcloud.com/shahid-buttar/) and produces [electronic music](http://shahidbuttar.com/original%20tracks), kicks rhymes, writes [poetry](http://shahidbuttar.com/poetry) & prose, and speaks truth to power on [Truthout](http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44966).
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[Nate Cardozo](/vi/about/staff/nate-cardozo)
### Senior Staff Attorney
Nate is a Senior Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s digital civil liberties team. In addition to his focus on free speech and privacy litigation, Nate works on EFF's
[Who Has Your Back?](https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013) report and [Coders' Rights Project](https://www.eff.org/issues/coders). Nate has projects involving cryptography and the law, automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, electronic privacy law reform, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state. A 2009-2010 [EFF Open Government Legal Fellow](/issues/transparency), Nate spent two years in private practice before returning to his senses and to EFF in 2012. Nate has a B.A. in Anthropology and Politics from [U.C. Santa Cruz](http://www.ucsc.edu) and a J.D. from [U.C. Hastings](http://www.uchastings.edu/) where he has taught [first-year legal writing](http://www.uchastings.edu/academics/pro-skills-team/legal-writing-research/index.php) and [moot court](http://www.uchastings.edu/academics/pro-skills-team/moot-court/First%20Year%20Moot%20Court%20Class/index.php). He [brews his own beer](http://gizmodo.com/introducing-stormbrew-an-nsa-inspired-beer-for-the-mas-1691355837#), has been to India four times, and watches too much [Bollywood](http://www.davidboyk.com/bollywood/).
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[Kim Carlson](/vi/about/staff/kim-carlson)
### International Project Manager
Prior to joining EFF, Kim was director of student development of an alternative, private high school in San Francisco and worked as assistant director of a French immersion school in Illinois. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is ready to get back to her journalistic roots working with EFF’s International Team. In her free time, Kim enjoys running, crafting like Martha, and eating yummy, artisanal cheese.
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[Andrea Chiang](/vi/about/staff/andrea-chiang)
### Accounting Manager
Andrea came to EFF with years of experience in accounting. Prior to joining EFF, she was an Airline Accounts Specialist for MSAS Cargo International. Before that, she was a Bookkeeper for Spectrel International Corp. She likes to travel almost as much as she enjoys playing with the pets in our office.
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[Cindy Cohn](/vi/about/staff/cindy-cohn)
### Executive Director
Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Ms. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in
[Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice](https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice), the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography.
The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in
[2013,](http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202593197565&The_100_Most_Influential_Lawyers_in_America&slreturn=20130312173616) noting: "[I]f Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn." She was also named in 2006 for "rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online." In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2010 the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California awarded her its Intellectual Property [Vanguard Award](http://ipsection.calbar.ca.gov/Education/TheIPInsitute/2010IPVanguardAwards.aspx) and in 2012 the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the [ James Madison Freedom of Information Award](http://www.spjnorcal.org/blog/2012/02/10/spj-norcal-names-first-amendment-honorees/).
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[Cindy Cohn](/vi/about/staff/cindy-cohn)'s extended bio
[Sophia Cope](/vi/about/staff/sophia-cope)
### Staff Attorney
Sophia Cope has been a civil liberties attorney for over a decade and has experience in both litigation and policy advocacy. Prior to joining EFF, Sophia spent eight years in Washington, DC. She worked at the Newspaper Association of America on freedom of the press and digital media issues, with a focus on protecting journalists' confidential sources. She advocated for a
[federal shield law](http://justsecurity.org/2243/media-shield-sophia-cope-reply-david-pozen/), a warrant-for-content requirement under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and improvements to the Freedom of Information Act. She also wrote a chapter for a book published by the American Bar Association entitled " [Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security](http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=131253898)" and [spoke out against NSA surveillance](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sophia-cope/the-philosophy-of-nsa-sur_b_3529895.html). Prior to NAA, Sophia worked at the Center for Democracy & Technology on a variety of free speech and privacy issues related to the Internet and technology, including the regulation of content on the Internet and [broadcast television](https://cdt.org/files/speech/20080808_fleeting_amicus.pdf), and the [privacy implications of government identification programs](http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/oversight-of-government-management/hearings/the-impact-of-implementation-a-review-of-the-real-id-act-and-the-western-hemisphere-travel-initiative); she also worked on the development and launch of the [Global Network Initiative](https://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/). Before moving to Washington, Sophia litigated at the First Amendment Project in Oakland, California, where she defended an [environmental activist against a frivolous lawsuit](http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/16/local/me-forest16) and a video journalist against a federal subpoena seeking his unpublished footage; she also counseled clients on how to obtain greater access to public records and public meetings. She was an adjunct professor of media law for nearly four years, teaching Washington-area undergraduate communication and journalism students. Sophia is a graduate of Santa Clara University and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She is proud to call San Diego her hometown.
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[Keri Crist](/vi/about/staff/keri)
### Operations Assistant
Keri is the Operations Assistant at EFF. Her goal in life is to become an eccentric old lady when she grows up. She believes that just like bacon, anything goes with combat boots. When she is not working, she enjoys taking spin classes, watching independent film, writing haiku and playing fetch with her cat. Keri loves anything that is pink and sparkly and squeals like a six year old when she sees a puppy. She is known to wear party dresses, flowers in her hair and yes, combat boots. Keri attended the California State University at Chico where she studied both Psychology and English.
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[Andrew Crocker](/vi/about/staff/andrew-crocker)
### Staff Attorney
Andrew is a staff attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s civil liberties team. He focuses on EFF’s national security and privacy docket, as well as the
[Coders' Rights Project](https://www.eff.org/issues/coders). While in law school, Andrew worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and the Center for Democracy and Technology. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University. His interests include Boggle and [donuts](http://www.dynamodonut.com/).
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[Joanna Cullom ](/vi/about/staff/joanna-cullom)
### Director of Operations
Joanna Cullom is the Operations Manager at EFF. Prior to coming to EFF, Joanna worked for a private firm as a business consultant creating policy and procedure, establishing benefits as well as specializing in office relocations and restructuring. She has experience working in corporate and non-profit alike, but thoroughly enjoys the progressive non-profit or start up atmospheres best. When she is not working, Joanna enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.
415-436-9333 ext. 126
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[Hugh D'Andrade](/vi/about/staff/hugh-dandrade)
### Art Director
As EFF's Art Director, Hugh D'Andrade helps craft EFF's image by designing our websites, t-shirts, stickers, white papers, as well as the murals that grace our stairwell. Hugh has worked with EFF in various capacities since 2007, and is the artist behind some of EFF's most
[iconic images](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_20th_anniversary_mecha_poster.jpg). All the work Hugh does for EFF is CC-licensed and can be downloaded, re-used and re-mixed from the [EFF Flickr page](https://www.flickr.com/photos/electronicfrontierfoundation/sets/). When Hugh isn't working for EFF, he creates illustrations for young adult novels, rock posters, magazines, and the occasional gallery wall. You can see more of his work on his personal [website](http://www.hughillustration.com). ![ ](https://www.eff.org/files/styles/staff_thumb/public/hugh-mural-2.jpg?itok=jb9VYpSZ)
[Cynthia Dominguez](/vi/about/staff/cynthia-dominguez)
### Legal Secretary
Cynthia supports the Civil Liberties team at EFF, joining the organization in January 2016. She studied the asylum policies of the European Union at Mount Holyoke College and Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. Prior to EFF she was a paralegal for law and financial services firms. She has previously taught English in Spain and ran an artisanal gluten-free, vegan bakery in New York City.
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![ Cynthia](https://www.eff.org/files/styles/staff_thumb/public/2016/03/28/profpic.jpeg?itok=tEFpGvYe)
[Peter Eckersley](/vi/about/staff/peter-eckersley)
### Chief Computer Scientist
Peter Eckersley is Chief Computer Scientist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists who watch for technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to computer users' freedoms—and then look for ways to fix them. They write code to make the Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance and censorship. They explain gadgets to lawyers and policymakers, and law and policy to gadgets.
Peter's work at EFF has included privacy and security projects such as the
[Let's Encrypt CA](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web), [Panopticlick](https://panopticlick.eff.org/), [HTTPS Everywhere](https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere), and the [SSL Observatory](https://eff.org/observatory); helping to launch a movement for [open wireless networks](https://openwireless.org); fighting to [keep modern computing platforms open](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/apples-crystal-prison-and-future-open-platforms); helping to [start](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/open-letter) the [campaign](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg) against the SOPA/PIPA [Internet blacklist legislation](https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill); and running the first controlled tests to confirm that Comcast was [using forged reset packets to interfere with P2P protocols](https://www.eff.org/wp/packet-forgery-isps-report-comcast-affair).
Peter holds a PhD in computer science and law from the University of Melbourne; his research focused on the practicality and desirability of using alternative compensation systems to legalize P2P file sharing and similar distribution tools while still paying authors and artists for their work. His other activities include serving on the boards of the
[Internet Security Research Group](https://letsencrypt.org/isrg/) and the US branch of the [Centre for Effective Altruism](https://centreforeffectivealtruism.org/); on the Advisory Council of the [Open Technology Fund](https://www.opentechfund.org); as an affiliate of the [Center for International Security and Cooperation](http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/) at Stanford University; and as advisor to 3D microscopy startup [3scan](http://www.3scan.com/);.
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[Kelly Esguerra](/vi/about/staff/kelly-esguerra)
### Finance Director
Kelly invokes her passion for all things numbers as EFF's Finance Director. Prior to joining the staff, she was a frequent volunteer at EFF events while honing her finance and accounting skills at a large public accounting firm. When her head is not buried deep in spreadsheets, she enjoys
[puzzles and games](http://www.setgame.com/set/daily_puzzle) of most varieties, and attends [local sporting events](http://i.imgur.com/JmWNcBz.gif).
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[Richard Esguerra](/vi/about/staff/richard-esguerra)
### Development Director
Richard
[wielded](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/entertainment-industrys-dystopia-future) a keyboard as an EFF Activist for four years, then indulged in his love of video games with the fine folks of [Humble Bundle](https://www.humblebundle.com). After a year, he returned to EFF to help raise funds for a better digital future. Richard has yet to [retrieve](http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/) the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot, and he still takes lots of [pictures of his cat](https://instagr.am/p/Ow8jL3zBlc/media/?size=l).
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[Ernesto Omar Falcon](/vi/about/staff/ernesto-omar-falcon)
### Legislative Counsel
Ernesto Falcon is Legislative Counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation with a primary focus on intellectual property and open Internet issues.
Prior to joining EFF, Ernesto worked as a legislative staffer for two Members of Congress (2004-2010). He then became Vice President of Government Affairs at Public Knowledge where he advocated on behalf of consumers on copyright issues and broadband competition. During his tenure, Public Knowledge was successful in achieving one of the largest consumer victories in telecom policy by defeating
[AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile](http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/199245-k-streets-top-10-lobbying-victories-of-2011). The following year, PK and EFF scored a major victory for consumers by rallying the Internet community to defeat the [Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). ](http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/273367-the-top-10-lobbying-victories-of-this-year)
After eight years in Washington DC, he returned to his home state of California to go to law school at McGeorge School of Law in order to strengthen his digital rights advocacy. Now, as an attorney, he is excited to rejoin the fight for consumers and Internet freedom.
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[Eva Galperin](/vi/about/staff/eva-galperin)
### Global Policy Analyst
A lifelong geek, Eva misspent her youth working as a Systems Administrator all over Silicon Valley. Since then, she has seen the error of her ways and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. She comes to EFF from the US-China Policy Institute, where she researched Chinese energy policy, helped to organize conferences, and attempted to make use of her rudimentary Mandarin skills. Her interests include aerials, rock climbing, opera, and not being paged at 3 o'clock in the morning because the mail server is down.
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[Jeremy Gillula](/vi/about/staff/jeremy-gillula)
### Staff Technologist
At a young age Jeremy was sidetracked from his ultimate goal of protecting digital civil liberties by the allure of building and programming robots, which was the focus of his work in college and grad school. Having worked on drones and autonomous cars he is aware of their potential benefits for society, but is also that much more prepared to guard against the dangers they present to privacy and civil liberties.
Of course, having worked at EFF for nearly a year Jeremy has covered a wide variety of tech topics, including mobile devices, big data, and net neutrality, just to name a few.
A strong believer in never taking the straightforward path to anything, Jeremy went to Caltech for undergrad, then got his PhD in computer science from Stanford University by working on robotics projects with a professor in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley.
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[Starchy Grant](/vi/about/staff/david-grant)
### Systems Administrator
Starchy Grant might not know the warm embrace of the sunlight, but at least he keeps the servers running on time. When not securing all the things or replacing the small shell script he replaced himself last year with with a slightly smaller yaml file, he enjoys gaming, ultramarathon running, scuba diving, mountain hugging, and dumb ideas poorly disguised as art.
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[David Greene](/vi/about/staff/david-greene)
### Civil Liberties Director
David Greene, Senior Staff Attorney and Civil Liberties Director, has significant experience litigating First Amendment issues in state and federal trial and appellate courts and is one of the country's leading advocates for and commentators on freedom of expression in the arts. David was a founding member, with David Sobel and Shari Steele, of the Internet Free Expression Alliance, and currently serves on the Northern California Society for Professional Journalists Freedom of Information Committee, the steering committee of the Free Expression Network, the governing committee of the ABA Forum on Communications Law, and on advisory boards for several arts and free speech organizations across the country. David is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he teaches classes in First Amendment and media law and an instructor in the journalism department at San Francisco State University. He has written and lectured extensively on many areas of First Amendment Law, including as a contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Censorship. Before joining EFF, David was for twelve years the Executive Director and Lead Staff Counsel for First Amendment Project, where he worked with EFF on numerous cases including
*Bunner v. DVDCCA*. David also previously served as program director of the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression where he was the principal contributor and general editor of the NCFE Quarterly and the principal author of the NCFE Handbook to Understanding, Preparing for and Responding to Challenges to your Freedom of Artistic Expression. He also practiced with the firms Bryan Cave LLP and Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft. He is a 1991 graduate of Duke University School of Law.
David's work has been recognized by
*California Lawyer* magazine as a 2013 *California Lawyer* Attorney of the Year, and by the SPJ Northern California as the recipient of its 2007 James Madison Freedom of information Award for Legal Counsel. He was also awarded The Hon. Ira A. Brown Adjunct Faculty Award by USF Law School in 2012.
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[Karen Gullo](/vi/about/staff/karen-gullo)
### Analyst, Media Relations Specialist
Karen Gullo is an award-winning writer who has reported on public affairs, business, government, and law for more than a decade. As a reporter for Bloomberg News from 2002 to 2015, Karen broke the story of Google’s legal challenge over FBI national security letters, in addition to writing about court battles over government surveillance, the fight to legalize gay marriage in California, concerns over how social media companies use customers’ confidential information, the Barry Bonds perjury trial, and much more. Before joining Bloomberg, Karen was a reporter for
[The Associated Press in Washington covering politics—including the 2000 presidential election and the Justice Department—as well as campaign finance and federal contracting practices as a member of an investigative reporting team. Karen is the recipient of national and local journalism awards, including the Jesse H. Neal Award Business Journalism Award and the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club’s excellence in journalism awards. She is a native of Chicago and resides in San Francisco.]
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[Elliot Harmon](/vi/about/staff/elliot-harmon)
### Activist
Elliot is an activist at EFF, focusing on patent law, open access, and copyright reform. He's interested in ways that IP law can accelerate innovation rather than hinder it.
Before coming to EFF, Elliot served as director of communications at Creative Commons, an organization that helps creators share their works via open copyright licenses. Before that, he worked as a writer and curator for TechSoup, a technology resource for the nonprofit community. Outside of work, he writes and occasionally performs poetry. He has a Bachelor's degree from the University of South Dakota and a Master's in writing from the California College of the Arts.
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[Parker Higgins](/vi/about/staff/parker-higgins)
### Director of Copyright Activism
Parker Higgins is an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in issues at the intersection of freedom of speech and copyright, trademark, and patent law. He previously lived and worked in Berlin, Germany.
Parker studied at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, where he developed a concentration of "Creativity, Freedom of Speech, and Intellectual Property." While at NYU, he served on the board of the global Students for Free Culture organization and as the president of its NYU chapter.
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[Jacob Hoffman-Andrews](/vi/about/staff/jacob-hoffman-andrews)
### Senior Staff Technologist
Jacob is a lead developer on
[Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/), the free and automated Certificate Authority. He also works on EFF's Encrypt the Web initiative and is a maintainer on the [HTTPS Everywhere](https://eff.org/https-everywhere) browser extension.
Prior to working at EFF, Jacob was on Twitter's anti-spam and security teams. One the security team, he implemented HTTPS-by-default with forward secrecy, key pinning,
[HSTS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security), and [CSP](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/CSP). On anti-spam, he deployed new machine-learned models to detect and block spam in realtime. Before Twitter, he worked at Google, variously on the maps, transit, and shopping teams. ![ ](https://www.eff.org/files/styles/staff_thumb/public/2014/06/03/jacob.jpg?itok=QkdNRI-C)
[Max Hunter](/vi/about/staff/max-hunter)
### Web Development Team Lead
Max is a technologist and a humanist. He leads the team of web developers who build our sites and activism tools. Before he teamed up with EFF in 2013, he helped organizations like CiviCRM and the East Bay Bicycle Coalition use data to tell stories about their work. He spends his free time playing open-world RPGs, riding cross bikes through the redwoods, and helping small nonprofits with online campaigns.
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[Mark M. Jaycox](/vi/about/staff/mark-m-jaycox)
### Civil Liberties Legislative Lead
Mark is the Civil Liberties Legislative Lead for EFF. His issues include consumer privacy, civil liberties, surveillance law, and "cybersecurity." When not reading legal or legislative documents, Mark can be found reading non-legal and legislative documents, exploring the Bay Area, and riding his bike. He was educated at
[Reed College](http://www.reed.edu) and spent a year abroad at the [University of Oxford](http://www.ox.ac.uk) [(Wadham College)](http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk). He has been featured on and offline in publications like *The Economist, New York Times, National Law Journal, *and *the Washington Post.* Previous to joining EFF, Mark was a Contributor to [ArsTechnica](http://www.arstechnica.com), and a Legislative Research Assistant for [LexisNexis](http://www.lexisnexis.com/).
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[Rebecca Jeschke](/vi/about/staff/rebecca-jeschke)
### Media Relations Director and Digital Rights Analyst
Rebecca Jeschke is EFF's Media Relations Director and a Digital Rights Analyst, fielding press requests on a broad range of issues including privacy, free speech, and intellectual property matters. Her media appearances include Fox News, CNN, NPR, USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, and Harper's Magazine, and she has been a presenter at
[South by Southwest](http://sxsw.com/). Before joining EFF in 2005, Rebecca worked in television and Internet news for more than ten years, including stints as an Internet producer for [CBS 5](http://cbs5.com/) in San Francisco and as a senior supervising producer for [TechTV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techtv). She has also been a [travel guide](http://www.letsgo.com/) editor, an [English teacher in the Dominican Republic](http://www.icda.edu.do/), and a worker on a "slime line" [gutting fish](http://www.spcsales.com/) in Alaska. Rebecca has a Bachelor of Arts in [English and American Literature and Language](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eenglish/) from Harvard University.
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[Aaron Jue](/vi/about/staff/aaron-jue)
### Senior Membership Advocate
Aaron manages membership operations and public outreach for EFF's Development Team. He started in nonprofit fundraising by managing membership at the New England Aquarium in Boston, and in donor operations at the Perkins School for the Blind. Aaron's interest in human rights and civil liberties crystallised during his years working with visitors at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles' Little Toyko, which educates the public about the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. He still carries the spirit of "gaman" perseverance everywhere he goes. He enjoys 70s and/or artsy foreign horror, cake sculpting, and generally making things out of other things. Nerds 4 Life.
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[Amul Kalia](/vi/about/staff/amul-kalia)
### Intake Coordinator
You can follow Amul on Twitter
[@amullionaire](https://twitter.com/amullionaire)
Amul attended University of California, Berkeley and studied Political Science and Public Policy. While in college, Amul was heavily involved in the largest community service organization on the Berkeley campus and held numerous leadership positions within it.
After attempting to volunteer with the EFF for a long time, he did the next best thing and joined the organization as a staff member in March 2014. Amul has followed issues relating to the interconnect between civil liberties and technology since high school, and became more involved and educated while in college. Prior to the EFF, his adventures included interning at the Lieutenant Governor's Office in the California State Capitol, working as a deputy field organizer on a successful congressional campaign, and as a paralegal for a complex litigation law firm in San Francisco's Financial District. In his free time, Amul enjoys reading, making new friends, and keeping it real.
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[Magdalena Kazmierczak](/vi/about/staff/maggie-kazmierczak)
### Membership Coordinator
Maggie is the Membership Coordinator at EFF. After studying Sociology at UCSC, she's truly stoked to be at EFF assisting with operations on the Development Team and helping to get information out about the work of our super skilled teams of techs, activists, and lawyers. She is here to help with questions or supporter concerns, and excited to get to geek out on digital rights issues with all you activists, makers, hackers, and folks passionate about the future of the Internet.
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[Rocket Lee](/vi/about/staff/rocket-lee)
### Technology Generalist
Rocket is a Technology Generalist at EFF. Previously, they spent 9+ years as a worker-owner at a number of different worker-cooperatives, where they brought technology expertise to social justice causes. Rocket has a BA in computer science and architectural studies from Brown University and an MS in comparative media studies, with a focus on game design, from MIT. Rocket designs games in their spare time for Out of Order Games, a radical game publishing collective in Oakland.
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[Laura Lemus](/vi/about/staff/laura-lemus)
### Operations Coordinator
Laura comes to us with an eclectic history of working in various non-profits, and with a Masters degree in Pastoral Ministry. Rather than becoming a Woman of The Cloth, she now supports the Good Works of the EFF by keeping the day to day things that the organization needs to keep running, including making sure that staff
**never** runs out of coconut water.
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[Jennifer Lynch](/vi/about/staff/jennifer-lynch)
### Senior Staff Attorney
Jennifer Lynch is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and works on privacy and civil liberties issues in new technologies as part of EFF’s
[Street Level Surveillance](https://www.eff.org/sls) and [Transparency Projects](/issues/transparency). Jennifer is a frequent speaker and lecturer at law schools and legal conferences on law enforcement surveillance programs, government transparency, domestic drones, location data, and [biometrics](https://www.eff.org/wp/fingerprints-dna-biometric-data-collection-us-immigrant-communities-and-beyond). She has written an influential white paper on [biometric data collection](https://www.eff.org/wp/fingerprints-dna-biometric-data-collection-us-immigrant-communities-and-beyond) in immigrant communities and has testified about [facial recognition](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/eff-urges-congress-protect-privacy-face-recognition) and its Fourth Amendment implications before the [Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law](http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=daba530c0e84f5186d785e4894e78220). In Jennifer's transparency work, she successfully sued the Federal Aviation Administration and Customs and Border Protection to obtain thousands of pages of previously unpublished [drone records](https://www.eff.org/foia/faa-drone-authorizations) and the FBI to obtain new and revealing information about its [Next Generation Identification](https://www.eff.org/foia/fbis-next-generation-identification-biometrics-database) face recognition program. She has also written numerous amicus briefs in federal and state courts on cell site location information and DNA.
Prior to joining EFF, Jennifer was the Clinical Teaching Fellow with the
[Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic](http://www.law.berkeley.edu/4391.htm) at [UC Berkeley School of Law](http://www.law.berkeley.edu/), where she specialized in privacy and intellectual property issues. Before the Clinic, Jennifer practiced civil litigation with [Bingham McCutchen](http://www.bingham.com/) in San Francisco and clerked for [Judge A. Howard Matz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Matz) (now retired) in the Central District of California. She earned both her undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley. She has published academically on identity theft and phishing attacks ( [20 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 259](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1588190)) and sovereign immunity in civil rights cases ( [62 Fla. L. Rev. 203](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1588183)) and has been interviewed by major and technical news media, including *NBC Nightly News*, *60 Minutes*, *NPR*, *Fox News*, the *Wall Street Journal*, the *New York Times*, the *Washington Post*, the *Economist*, *CNet*, *Nova*, *Popular Science*, *Scientific American*, and *Ars Technica*.
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[Dave Maass](/vi/about/staff/dave-maass)
### Investigative Researcher
Dave Maass uses transparency and public records to battle injustice, censorship, and the surveillance state. Before joining EFF, he worked as a writer for altweeklies in every state along the southern border, reporting on everything from San Diego Comic-Con to Texas death row. He has also moderated dark-horse presidential debates on public access TV; organized digital media on barely legal road rallies; performed spoken word on a British art-rock tour; revealed human-rights abuses in Ghanaian refugee camps; and uncovered embezzlement that ultimately put a New Mexico elected official in jail. He was a recipient of the Youth Law Center's Loren Warboys Unsung Hero Award, NACOLE's Contribution to Oversight Award, and multiple honors from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the San Diego Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2013, the city council of San Diego created "Dave Maass Day" in recognition of his talent for annoying politicians and filing endless records requests.
He is also the supervisor of the terrier duo,
[Marlowe and Buster](https://www.eff.org/about/staff/marlowe-buster).
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[Aaron Mackey](/vi/about/staff/aaron-mackey)
### Frank Stanton Legal Fellow
Aaron joins EFF after moving from Washington, D.C. where he worked on speech, privacy, and freedom of information issues at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law. Aaron graduated from Boalt Hall in 2012, where he worked for EFF while a student in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Prior to law school, Aaron was a journalist at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona. He received his undergraduate degree in journalism and English from the University of Arizona in 2006, where he met his amazing wife, Ashley. They have a giggly toddler, Jonah, and a low-riding, sweet 8-year-old lab-corgi mix, Bailey.
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[Jeremy Malcolm](/vi/about/staff/jeremy-malcolm)
### Senior Global Policy Analyst
Jeremy Malcolm joined EFF's international team in 2014 and works on the international dimensions of issues such as intellectual property, network neutrality, Internet governance, and trade. Prior to that he worked for Consumers International coordinating its global programme Consumers in the Digital Age. Jeremy graduated with degrees in Law (with Honours) and Commerce in 1995 from Murdoch University, and completed his PhD thesis at the same University in 2008 on the topic of Internet governance. Jeremy's background is as an information technology and intellectual property lawyer and IT consultant. He enjoys acting, writing and coding, and his ambitions include writing an original science fiction novel, learning to juggle and learning Japanese (ideally both at once).
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[Jeremy Malcolm](/vi/about/staff/jeremy-malcolm)'s extended bio
[Tammy McMillen](/vi/about/staff/tammy-mcmillen)
### Data Processing Assistant
Tammy is a former elementary teacher who, each year, instilled in her students an introduction to civil liberties and civic responsibility through stories and traditional Civil Rights songs. Though she could no more program her way out of a paper bag, she is thrilled to be doing her part to help EFF in their work. Dilly, a Great Bernard (or St Pyrenees, if you prefer), also contributes to the cause by hauling Tammy outdoors when she thinks she needs a break from entering data.
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[Corynne McSherry](/vi/about/staff/corynne-mcsherry)
### Legal Director
Corynne McSherry is the Legal Director at EFF, specializing in intellectual property, open access, and free speech issues. Her favorite cases involve defending online fair use, political expression, and the public domain against the assault of copyright maximalists. As a litigator, she has represented
[Professor Lawrence Lessig](/cases/lawrence-lessig-v-liberation-music), [Public.Resource.Org](/cases/publicresource-freeingthelaw), [the Yes Men](/cases/chamber-commerce-v-servin), and a [dancing baby](/cases/lenz-v-universal), among others, and one of her first cases at EFF was I [n re Sony BMG CD Technologies Litigation](/cases/sony-bmg-litigation-info) (aka the "rootkit" case). In 2015 she was named one of California's Top Entertainment Lawyers. She was also named AmLaw's "Litigator of the Week" for her work on [Lenz v. Universal.](https://www.eff.org/cases/lenz-v-universal) Her policy work includes leading EFF’s effort to fix copyright (including the successful effort to shut down the [Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA](/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill)), promote [net neutrality](/issues/net-neutrality), and promote [best practices](/deeplinks/2008/08/election-approaches-do-your-part-protect-political) for online expression. In 2014, she [testified](/deeplinks/2014/09/eff-congress-get-rid-dmcas-anti-circumvention-provisions) before Congress about problems with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Corynne comments regularly on digital rights issues and has been quoted in a variety of outlets, including NPR, CBS News, Fox News, the New York Times, Billboard, the Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. Prior to joining EFF, Corynne was a civil litigator at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Corynne has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Ph.D from the University of California at San Diego, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. While in law school, Corynne published Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001).
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[Madeleine Mulkern ](/vi/about/staff/madeleine-mulkern)
### Legal Secretary
Madeleine is a legal secretary in the intellectual property group. Prior to joining EFF she worked in practices that represented consumers in complex class action litigation. She has a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. from Camberwell College of Art, London.
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[Daniel Nazer](/vi/about/staff/daniel-nazer)
### Staff Attorney and Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents
Daniel is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's intellectual property team, focusing on patent reform. Prior to joining EFF, Daniel was a Residential Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. He also practiced at Keker & Van Nest, LLP, where he represented technology clients in patent and antitrust litigation. Before that, Daniel was a legal fellow with the Drug Law Reform Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Daniel clerked for Justice Susan Kenny of the Federal Court of Australia and Judge William K. Sessions, III of the U.S. District of Vermont. Daniel has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia, an M.A. in philosophy from Rutgers, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Daniel is the author of The Tragicomedy of the Surfer’s Commons (
[9 ](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1154884) [Deakin L. Rev. 655](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1154884)) and Conflict and Solidarity: The Legacy of Jeff D. ( [17 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 499](http://www.scribd.com/doc/122112189/Conflict-and-Solidarity-The-Legacy-of-Evans-v-Jeff-D)). When he is not working, Daniel can be found surfing at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.
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[Danny O'Brien](/vi/about/staff/danny-obrien-0)
### International Director
Danny O'Brien has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 15 years. In his home country of the UK, he fought against repressive anti-encryption law, and helped make the UK Parliament more transparent with
[FaxYourMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Citizens_Online_Democracy). He was EFF's activist from 2005 to 2007, and its international outreach coordinator from 2007-2009. After three years working to protect at-risk online reporters with the [Committee to Protect Journalists](https://www.cpj.org/internet/), he returned to EFF in 2013 to supervise EFF's global strategy. He is also the co-founder of the [Open Rights Group](http://www.openrightsgroup.org/), Britain's own digital civil liberties organization.
In a previous life, Danny wrote and performed the only
[one-man show about Usenet](http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4703947.html) to have a successful run in London's West End. His geek gossip zine, [Need To Know](http://www.ntk.net/), won a special commendation for services to newsgathering at the first Interactive BAFTAs. He also coined the term " [life hack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hack)"; it has been nearly a decade since he was first commissioned to write a book on combating procrastination.
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[Camille Ochoa](/vi/about/staff/camille-ochoa)
### Operations Assistant
Camille provides general operational support to the heroes of EFF. She has her BA in Societal Communication; and enjoys cooking with her husband, re-reading her old philosophy textbooks, playing hide-and-seek with her kids, and rooting for pathetic football teams. She despises artificial mint flavor and people who can't park.
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[Soraya Okuda](/vi/about/staff/soraya-okuda)
### Designer
Soraya is a designer passionate about education, media production, and international development. She is excited to support EFF's efforts in privacy, conveying technical concepts to beginners, and creating accessible materials for at-risk and under-resourced groups. Previously, she was an English teacher to elementary school students in Taiwan, and was the development director for a nonprofit operating a secondary school in South Sudan.
She has a B.A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University, and a M.Ed. in Technology, Innovation, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In her free time, she enjoys stand-up comedy, creating films, and making greeting cards.
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[Kurt Opsahl](/vi/about/staff/kurt-opsahl)
### Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel
Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. Opsahl is the lead attorney on the
[Coders' Rights Project](https://www.eff.org/issues/coders). Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at [Perkins Coie](http://www.perkinscoie.com/), where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on [Kelly v. Arribasoft](/IP/Linking/Kelly_v_Arriba_Soft), [MGM v. Grokster](/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster ) and [CoStar v. LoopNet](/legal/ISP_liability/CoStar_v_Loopnet/). For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the [U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems](http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/). Opsahl received his law degree from [Boalt Hall](http://www.law.berkeley.edu/), and undergraduate degree from [U.C. Santa Cruz](http://www.ucsc.edu/). Opsahl co-authored " [Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1879650118/)." In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the ["Attorneys of the Year"](http://dailyjournal.com/index.cfm?sid=&tkn=&eid=884302&evid=1) by [California Lawyer magazine](http://californialawyermagazine.com/) for his work on the [O'Grady v. Superior Court](http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Apple_v_Does/) appeal. In 2014, Opsahl was elected to the [USENIX](https://www.usenix.org/about) Board of Directors.
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[Nicole Puller](/vi/about/staff/nicole-puller)
### Donor Relations Coordinator
Nicole Puller is our Donor Relations Coordinator with a passion for social justice, something she has been pursuing professionally for over a decade. She previously supported a mixed portfolio of individual and institutional grantmaking programs at the Tides Foundation, and before that worked with fiscally sponsored projects at the San Francisco Parks Trust. In her spare time, she enjoys frolicking with baby goats and making pickles.
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[Cooper Quintin](/vi/about/staff/cooper-quintin)
### Staff Technologist
Cooper is a security researcher and programmer at EFF. He has worked on projects such as
[Privacy Badger](https://eff.org/privacybadger), [Canary Watch](https://canarywatch.org), [Ethersheet](https://ethersheet.org), and analysis of state sponsored malware. He has also performed security trainings for activists, non profit workers and ordinary folks around the world. He previously worked building websites for non-profits, such as Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network. He also was a co-founder of the Hackbloc hacktivist collective. In his spare time he enjoys playing music and participating in street protests.
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[Vera Ranieri](/vi/about/staff/vera-ranieri)
### Staff Attorney
Vera is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s intellectual property team, focusing on patent reform. Prior to joining EFF, Vera practiced at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where she worked primarily in patent litigation, representing clients against trolls. Vera has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, where she realized too late that she should have gotten a degree in computer science, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In her spare time, Vera loves exploring the wonderful food scene of San Francisco.
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[Rainey Reitman](/vi/about/staff/rainey-reitman)
### Activism Director
Rainey Reitman serves as director of the activism team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is particularly interested in the intersection between personal privacy and technology, particularly social networking privacy, network security, web tracking, government surveillance, and online data brokers.
Reitman is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of the
[Freedom of the Press Foundation](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that defends and supports unique, independent, nonprofit journalistic institutions. She, along with co-founders Daniel Ellsberg, Trevor Timm, and J.P. Barlow, received the 2013 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Journalism.
Reitman is a founder and steering committee member for the
[Chelsea Manning Support Network](http://www.bradleymanning.org), a network of individuals and organizations advocating for the release of accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Private Chelsea Manning. Previously, Reitman served on the board of directors for the [Bill of Rights Defense Committee](http://www.bordc.org/), a nonprofit whose mission is to organize and support an effective, national grassroots movement to restore civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Prior to joining EFF, Reitman served as Director of Communications for the
[Privacy Rights Clearinghouse](http://www.privacyrights.org), a nonprofit advocacy and education organization promoting consumer privacy. She earned her BA from Bard College in Multidisciplinary Studies: Creative Writing, Russian & Gender Studies.
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[Katitza Rodriguez](/vi/about/staff/katitza-rodriguez)
### International Rights Director
Katitza Rodriguez is EFF's international rights director. She concentrates on comparative policy of international privacy issues, with special emphasis on law enforcement, government surveillance, and cross border data flows. Her work in EFF's International Program also focuses on cybersecurity at the intersection of human rights. Katitza also manages EFF's growing Latin American programs. She is an advisor to the UN Internet Governance Forum (2009-2010), and a member of the Advisory Board of Privacy International. Before joining EFF, Katitza was director of the international privacy program at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington D.C., where amongst other things, she worked on
[The Privacy and Human Rights Report,](https://www.privacyinternational.org/article/phr) an international survey of privacy law and developments. Katitza is well known to many in global civil society and in international policy venues for her work at the U.N. Internet Governance Forum and her pivotal role in the creation and ongoing success of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council at the [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,](http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_34223_1_1_1_1_1,00.html) for which she served as the civil society liaison while at EPIC from 2008 to March 2010. Katitza holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Lima, Peru. Katitza's twitter handle is @txitua.
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[Cristina Rosales](/vi/about/staff/cristina-rosales)
### Grant Writer
Cristina credits her lifelong love of writing to growing up in the drizzly Pacific Northwest. Prior to joining the full-time fight for Internet freedom, Cristina lived and worked in Los Angeles, where she spent several years in the entertainment industry. Earning a critical studies degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts meant spending a lot of time staring at walls in the dark, which she still does occasionally. If the Internet had a zip code, Cristina would live there, in a house next to
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[Squiggy Rubio](/vi/about/staff/squiggy-rubio)
### Web Developer
Squiggy builds and maintains websites for EFF. She is an Open Source web developer. She started building websites shortly after getting involved in the anti-war movement. Since then she has worked for a university, a web development company, and
[Mirabot Technology Cooperative](https://www.mirabot.coop), which she also founded. While at Mirabot, she helped build several websites for the EFF including [Surveillance Self Defense](https://ssd.eff.org) and [Stand Against Spying](https://standagainstspying.org). In her spare time she volunteers at [Liberating Ourselves Locally (LOL)](https://oaklandmakerspace.wordpress.com/), a people-of-color-led and gender diverse hacker/maker space in East Oakland. She also likes to make art, play electric bass and grow food.
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[Mark Rumold](/vi/about/staff/mark-rumold)
### Senior Staff Attorney
Mark is a senior staff attorney at EFF, focusing primarily on privacy, surveillance, government secrecy, and national security issues. As part of EFF's
[Transparency Project](http://www.eff.org/issues/transparency), Mark regularly represents EFF in cases under the federal Freedom of Information Act. As a result of his transparency work, tens of thousands of pages of previously secret government documents have been made available to the public. Mark is a graduate of [Northwestern University](http://www.northwestern.edu/) and the [University of California, Berkeley School of Law](http://www.law.berkeley.edu). In his spare time, he likes doing crossword puzzles and cheering for disappointing [amazing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals#/media/File:Royals_Celebrating_Winning_the_2015_World_Series.jpg) [sports](http://www.kcchiefs.com/home.html) [teams](http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=kc).
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[Seth Schoen](/vi/about/staff/seth-schoen)
### Senior Staff Technologist
Seth Schoen has worked at EFF over a decade, creating the Staff Technologist position and helping other technologists understand the civil liberties implications of their work, EFF staff better understand technology related to EFF's legal work, and the public understand what products they use really do. He helped create the LNX-BBC live CD and has researched phenomena including laser printer forensic tracking codes, ISP packet spoofing, and key recovery from computer RAM after a computer has been turned off. He has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and in several courts.
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[Adam Schwartz](/vi/about/staff/adam-schwartz)
### Senior Staff Attorney
Adam Schwartz is a Senior Staff Attorney with the EFF's civil liberties team.
Previously, he served as a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Illinois, where he worked for 19 years. His cases at the ACLU challenged the criminalization of civilian audio recording of on-duty police, abusive border detentions of Muslim and Arab citizens caused by the federal Terrorism Screening Database, AT&T’s collaboration with the NSA’s dragnet surveillance program, and public access to information about Illinois’ Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center. He also advocated for policy reform regarding drones and location tracking, and wrote reports about surveillance cameras and fusion centers. His other ACLU cases addressed youth prisons, police detentions of pedestrians and motorists, free speech, religious liberty, and drug testing of public housing residents.
Adam clerked for Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has a J.D. from Howard University and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.
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[David Sobel](/vi/about/staff/david-sobel)
### Senior Counsel
David Sobel is Senior Counsel in Washington, DC, where he directs the FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project. David has handled numerous cases seeking the disclosure of government documents on privacy policy, including electronic surveillance, encryption controls and airline passenger screening initiatives. He served as co-counsel in the challenge to government secrecy concerning post-September 11 detentions and participated in the submission of a civil liberties amicus brief in the first-ever proceeding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. David is co-editor of the 2002 and 2004 editions of Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws. He is a recipient of EFF's Pioneer Award (2003) and the American Library Association's James Madison Award (2004), and has been inducted into the First Amendment Center's National FOIA Hall of Fame (2006). David was formerly counsel to the non-profit National Security Archive, and, in 1994, co-founded the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where he directed FOIA litigation and focused on government surveillance and collection of personal information. David is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Florida College of Law.
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[Mitch Stoltz](/vi/about/staff/mitch-stoltz)
### Senior Staff Attorney
Mitch Stoltz is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Mitch works on cases where free speech and innovation collide with copyright and trademark law. His current projects include improving the legal environment for mobile software developers and tinkerers, fighting the use of copyright as a tool for censorship, litigation on the copyright status of mandatory safety codes, and legal analysis in the field of Internet television and video. Mitch also counsels clients on Internet video technology and open source software licensing.
Before joining EFF, Mitch was an associate at Constantine Cannon LLP in Washington DC, where he worked on antitrust and copyright litigation on behalf of consumer technology, advertising, medical, and transportation companies. He also represented technology companies and trade associations before the Federal Communications Commission and other agencies.
Long ago, in an Internet far far away, Mitch was Chief Security Engineer for the Mozilla Project at Netscape Communications (later AOL), where he worked to secure Web browsers against malicious Internet content and coordinated the security research efforts of hackers on three continents.
Mitch has a JD from Boston University and a BA in Public Policy and Computer Science from Pomona College, where he co-founded the student TV station Studio 47. When not working, he can be found tinkering with electronics or chasing new levels of suffering on a bicycle.
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[Noah Swartz](/vi/about/staff/noah-swartz)
### Staff Technologist
Noah is a Staff Technologist on the Tech Projects team. He works on the various software the EFF produces and maintains, including but not limited to Privacy Badger.
Before joining EFF Noah was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab as well as a technomancer and free software/culture advocate. An avid game enthusiast, Noah was previously a professional Magic: the Gathering player, and has ascended in nethack four times. He lives in the Mission District of San Francisco with his family of twitterbots.
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[William Theaker](/vi/about/staff/william-theaker)
### Technology Generalist
William is a Technology Generalist at EFF. As a long time member of the free software movement, he has a keen interest in how technology can be used to make society more democratic and participatory. He has previously worked with Free Software Foundation, Public Knowledge, and New America Foundation's Open Internet Tools Project. In his spare time, he is involved in a variety of social justice groups.
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[Lee Tien](/vi/about/staff/lee-tien)
### Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights
Lee Tien is a Senior Staff Attorney and the Adams Chair for Internet Rights at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in free speech law, including intersections with intellectual property law and privacy law. Before joining EFF, Lee was a sole practitioner specializing in
[Freedom of Information Act](http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/) (FOIA) litigation. Mr. Tien has published articles on children's sexuality and information technology, anonymity, surveillance, and the First Amendment status of publishing computer software. Lee received his undergraduate degree in psychology from [Stanford University](http://www.stanford.edu/), where he was very active in journalism at the *. After working as a news reporter at the Stanford Daily* *for a year, Lee went to law school at* [Tacoma News Tribune](http://www.tribnet.com/) [Boalt Hall](http://www.law.berkeley.edu/), University of California at Berkeley. Lee also did graduate work in the Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at [UC-Berkeley](http://www.berkeley.edu).
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[Jeremy Tribby](/vi/about/staff/jeremy-tribby)
### Front-End Engineer/Designer
[Tribby](http://tribby.com/) mostly works on interactive design and development at EFF. He's an amateur typographer and spends entirely too much time thinking about the political implications of letter forms.
Prior to EFF, he ran a local VPN company and studied art at UC Berkeley. A
[Bay Area](http://i.imgur.com/JPkMK8r.jpg) native, he was exposed to [Eric Hughes' Cypherpunk Manifesto](https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/cypherpunk.manifesto) at an early age and has enjoyed watching its prophecy unfold. He can often be found biking to the farmers market, selling records at swap meets, and occasionally [hacking](http://i.imgur.com/HtZ692w.jpg) the [redacted].
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[Maggie Utgoff](/vi/about/staff/maggie-utgoff)
### Employee Experience Manager
As EFF's Employee Experience Manager, Maggie Utgoff helps make EFF a great place to work. Before joining EFF, Maggie has worked in Human Resources at Hack Reactor, Rally, and Twitter. She was a co-founder at
[ Louder.org](http://louder.org/) where she helped people crowdfund citizen-made advertising. She started her own non-profit that promoted occupational health education and concentrated her work on the mining industry in India. Maggie is passionate about protecting free speech, innovation, and workplace privacy. She loves to write and is extremely proud of her [McSweeney's publications](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authors/maggie-utgoff).
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[Kit Walsh](/vi/about/staff/kit-walsh)
### Staff Attorney
Kit is a staff attorney at EFF, working on free speech, net neutrality, copyright, coders' rights, and other issues that relate to freedom of expression and access to knowledge. She has worked for years to support the rights of political protesters, journalists, remix artists, and technologists to agitate for social change and to express themselves through their stories and ideas. Prior to joining EFF, Kit led the civil liberties and patent practice areas at the Cyberlaw Clinic, part of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and previously Kit worked at the law firm of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, litigating patent, trademark, and copyright cases in courts across the country.
Kit holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. in neuroscience from MIT, where she studied brain-computer interfaces and designed cyborgs and artificial bacteria.
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[Barak Weinstein](/vi/about/staff/barak-weinstein)
### Executive Assistant
Barak is in his second tour at EFF, this time as the Executive Assistant. In between, he was an audio engineer, leaving him in the unique position of having assisted both with the recording of Grammy-nominated songs and on cases and issues in opposition to the recording industry. In his spare time, Barak is an avid organic gardener.
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[Jamie Lee Williams](/vi/about/staff/jamie-williams)
### Frank Stanton Legal Fellow
Jamie is a Frank Stanton Legal Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she is part of the civil liberties team. Jamie focuses on the First and Fourth Amendment implications of new technologies. Prior to joining EFF, Jamie clerked for Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong in the Northern District of California. Before her clerkship, she was a litigation associate at Paul Hastings LLP and an attorney law clerk at the Alameda County Public Defender. Jamie has a J.D. from the
[University of California, Berkeley School of Law](http://www.law.berkeley.edu/) (Boalt Hall) and a B.A. in journalism from the [University of Wisconsin, Madison](http://www.wisc.edu/). In her free time, she enjoys being outdoors and collecting [cool rocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_rock).
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[Lisa Wright](/vi/about/staff/lisa-wright)
### Technologist General
Leez, a second-person narrative. You find pleasure in freely-modifiable and redistributable things. While writing your college thesis on the free and open-source software movements, you rebuilt Continuing Education's course-management servers with free and open-source software. You are a social justice advocate that specializes in vehemently arguing why worker-run factories are so rad. Lately you also find pleasure in the ancient art of seafaring, the modern art of flash mobs, and trying to make music emerge from your electronic keyboard.
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[Jillian C. York](/vi/about/staff/jillian-york)
### Director for International Freedom of Expression
Jillian C. York is EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression and is based in Berlin, Germany. Her work encompasses a broad range of topics, from digital security to the privatization of censorship. At EFF, she works on a number of projects, including
[Surveillance Self-Defense](https://ssd.eff.org), [Digital Citizen](https://digcit.org), and [OnlineCensorship.org](https://onlinecensorship.org). Jillian's writing has been featured in *Al Jazeera*, the *Guardian*, *Foreign Policy*, the *Atlantic*, and the New York *Times*, among others. She is also a [regular speaker](http://jilliancyork.com/talks/) at global events.
Prior to joining EFF, Jillian worked at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where she researched Internet censorship. In a previous life, she lived in Morocco and worked as an English teacher and travel writer.
Jillian is a fellow at the
[Centre for Internet & Human Rights](https://cihr.eu/) in Berlin and a founding member of the [Deep Lab](http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/projects/deep-lab) collective. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of [Global Voices](https://globalvoices.org), the [IFEX](http://ifex.org) Council, and on the advisory boards of [SMEX](http://smex.org) and [R-Shief](http://www.r-shief.org/).
Jillian holds a BA in Sociology from Binghamton University, where—like a surprisingly large number of individuals in her field—she also studied theatre. She alternately resides in the Internet or on an airplane and can often be found
[blogging](http://jilliancyork.com) or tweeting, as @ [jilliancyork](https://twitter.com/jilliancyork).
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[McKinley (aka Mackey) Bear](/vi/about/staff/mckinley-bear)
### Staff Mountain Dog
Mackey is EFF's resident Bernese Mountain Dog. He specializes in getting treats from interns, barking at Board members and
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[Marlowe & Buster](/vi/about/staff/marlowe-buster)
### Digiterriers
Marlowe and Buster are the most influential terrier mixes in the Internet freedom movement. Working out of EFF's media and activism department, these creatures never roll over for the government, but they will for civil libertarians bearing carrots.
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## Domain Name System (DNS)
*The Domain Name System (DNS) is a system for converting human-readable host names and domain names (like www.eff.org) into the machine-readable, numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address of a server or other device (like 64.147.188.3), which is used to point computers and other devices toward the correct servers on the Internet. At the heart of the system are the DNS servers that manage vast databases that map domain names to IP addresses. They are highly centralized, which makes them easy targets for Internet censors. *
DNS makes it possible for users and computers to access different places or devices on the Internet without having to remember millions of different IP addresses and server locations themselves — basically, it is a directory for the Internet. When it is compromised or censored, users will have difficulty
**accessing certain sites and domains**, unless, in some instances, they can use alternate DNS servers and proxies.
On a small scale, ISPs may choose to, or be ordered to,
**filter content**, like pornography or websites accused of copyright infringement. ISPs do this by preventing DNS servers under their control from resolving users’ requests for a website to the proper IP address – the site is still there, but users can’t get to it be using the site’s domain name. This can prevent users from accessing lawful as well as unlawful speech, in part because it is often easier for ISPs and governments to **prevent access to entire domain names, including lawful speech on **rather than precisely block access to specific objectionable content.
Larger scale DNS censorship is common in countries like Iran and China whose governments use their control over Internet infrastructure to suppress material that they find objectionable, whether
**political speech or content they consider immoral**. Many other countries, like Belgium and Norway, use less pervasive (but still questionable) DNS censorship schemes targeting sites that are allegedly used to distribute child pornography. Some countries, including the [United States](https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill), are considering DNS blocking as a strategy for **attacking intellectual property infringement**.
DNS censorship strategies also cause a great deal of
**collateral damage**. For example, in addition to impeding access to lawful speech, interfering with the DNS may cause security problems, in part because it will spur sites to switch to tunneling systems or untrustworthy DNS mechanisms.
Examples of Targeting the DNS
After Wikileaks released its cache of diplomatic documents in December 2010, its DNS provider EveryDNS.net
[stopped providing DNS resolution services](http://mashable.com/2010/12/03/everydns-dns-wikileaks/) for www.wikileaks.org, severely curbing Wikileaks’ ability to disseminate its documents to users seeking to access its website.