Meet The Team
🤝 We're a group of creators helping to make the internet a better place.
Board of Directors
Elijah Waxwing
Director
Elijah is the co-founder of Riseup.net, the LEAP Encryption Access Project, and Thoughtworks. He's has been working on the issue of digital justice, autonomous infrastructure, and surveillance of social movements since 2000. Elijah is a software developer, systems architect, information security specialist, and manager.
Glenn Sorrentino
Board Chair
Executive Director
Glenn is the founder and Executive Director of Science & Design. In his most recent role as Principal Product Designer at Salesforce, he helped build products including Search, Voice, Identity, and Authentication. His work has led to multiple US patents, and invitations to collaborate with institutions like Harvard's Belfer Center and the World Economic Forum.
While at Salesforce, he provided pro-bono research and design services to open-source projects and non-profit organizations like Signal, The Calyx Institute, OnionShare, EFF, and Tor Project. Now, he's making it his full-time focus.
Micah Lee
Director
Micah Lee is the Director of Information Security at The Intercept. He is a computer security engineer and an open-source software developer who writes about technical topics like digital and operational security, encryption tools, whistleblowing, and hacking using language that everyone can understand without dumbing it down. In addition, he develops security and privacy tools such as OnionShare, Dangerzone, and Semiphemeral.
Serene
Director
Serene is a software engineer, ex-hacker, and the creator of the Snowflake pluggable transport. Away from the computer, she is a concert pianist who concertizes around the world.
Stefanie Daehler
Secretary
Treasurer
Stefanie is a librarian and educator, holding a Masters of Library and Information Sciences from Pratt and a BA from Cornell.
Her experience includes Penguin Publishing, The NYC Department of Education, and leadership at The Archer School for Girls.
Contributors
Ashley Di Battista, Ph.D.
Research Lead
Ashley is a retired clinical neuropsychologist, long time researcher with a PhD and user experience expert. She loves making the complex comprehensible and has a thing for wordplay and puns, too.
You can watch/listen to their co-hosted podcast at youtube.com/@whathefux or read her free articles on all things research and data how to's at medium.com/@ashley.dibattista.
Ese Udom
Engineering
Ese is a software engineer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He's been coding for nine years with experience building with Java, PHP, Android, AOSP, Kotlin, AWS, and other web technologies.
Glenn Sorrentino
Design
User Research
Glenn is the founder and Executive Director of Science & Design. In his most recent role as Principal Product Designer at Salesforce, he helped build products including Search, Voice, Identity, and Authentication. His work has led to multiple US patents, and invitations to collaborate with institutions like Harvard's Belfer Center and the World Economic Forum.
While at Salesforce, he provided pro-bono research and design services to open-source projects and non-profit organizations like Signal, The Calyx Institute, OnionShare, EFF, and Tor Project. Now, he's making it his full-time focus.
Maya Ninova, Ph.D.
User Research
Maya is a user researcher and social psychologist based in Barcelona, Spain, with over a decade of international experience conducting human behavioral research. She also consults with organizations on research strategy and processes, and loves mentoring and teaching less experienced practitioners on the research craft.
Miguel Jacq
DevSecOps
Miguel is a DevSecOps engineer with 15 years of industry experience.
He works with many international businesses, non|not-for profits and community organisations to run safer, more resilient and efficient digital services.
Saptak Sengupta
Engineering
Saptak is a Human Rights Centered Web Developer focusing on topics including security, privacy, accessibility, and localization.
He believes you can still make great UIs while respecting users' fundamental human rights.
Seth Brown
Engineering
An experienced software engineer obsessive about performant, scalable, and accessible code. Has lead projects ranging from seed-stage start-ups, to enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies. Advocate of maintaining code quality through creating organizational standards and TDD.
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