Daly Barnett is a multidisciplinary technologist whose work focuses on disarming the antisocial impacts of computers. She pursues this by empowering liberation movement workers with the knowledge and capability to resist the annihilating forces of surveillance and hypercapitalist technology overreach. Daly is most attuned to movements for bodily autonomy, with dedicated experience advocating for and working within criminalized issue-spaces such as sex worker rights, transgender liberation, and abortion access. She believes OPSEC for liberation is achieved through community activation (not through application of corporate infosec paradigms) and that bodily autonomy and self-determination are paramount obligations worth fighting for.

William Budington is a longtime activist, cryptography enthusiast, and a senior staff technologist on EFF ’s public interest technology team. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and cited by the U.S. Congress. His primary interest lies in dismantling systems of oppression, building up collaborative alternatives and, to borrow a phrase from Zapatismo, fighting for a “world in which many worlds fit.” He loves hacker spaces and getting together with other techies to tinker, code, share, and build the technological commons.

Lena Cohen is a staff technologist primarily focused on developing Privacy Badger - a browser extension used by over three million people to stop companies from tracking their activity as they browse the web. At EFF, Lena also works on issues of commercial surveillance, the data broker industry, and consumer privacy. Lena holds a degree in computer science and in science, technology, and society from Brown University.

Cara Gagliano is a senior staf f attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her practice focuses on trademark, copyright, and free speech issues, especially helping to fight attempts to use IP law to silence activists, artists, and critics. She also works on EFF’s Coders’ Rights Project, assisting programmers, developers, and researchers who are helping to build a safer future for us all. Across her work, Cara takes a particular interest in cases supporting the rights of incarcerated people.

Rory Mir is director of open access and tech community engagement at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to joining the EFF, Rory was a psychology researcher and instructor at the City University of New York. Their research centered liberation pedagogy and adolescents’ use of social media, and on campus they advocated for protections of student and worker privacy, open science, and open education. They have also led digital security trainings for more than ten years, primarily through the Brooklyn-based CyPurr Collective.