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Senior Systems Administrator

leez, a second-person narrative. You're quite fond of freely-modifiable and redistributable things. While compiling your college thesis on the free and open-source software movements, you rebuilt their course-management servers with free and open-source software. You're a social justice advocate that is often found evangelizing worker-run factories or encryption. Lately you also find pleasure in the ancient art of seafaring, the modern art of flash mobs, phaselocking bullymongs, and button-mashing that piano.

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Tech Ops
Senior Systems Administrator

Molly holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT and is committed to fighting for privacy and security online for all users. Aside from keeping EFF sites running, she is passionate about machine learning and standing against the irresponsible deployment of it for civil control.

Tech Ops
Associate Director of State Affairs

Rindala "Rin" Alajaji (she/her) is the Associate Director of State Affairs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, primarily focused on state legislation impacting digital privacy, surveillance, reproductive rights, and free expression. Prior to joining EFF, Rin worked to advance and defend civil rights and education justice policies in state legislatures as Equality Florida's Public Policy Manager and GLSEN's State and Local Policy Manager. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Human Rights Studies M.A. program, and holds a B.S. in Applied Psychology and Global Public Health from New York University.

Activism
Associate Director for Latin American Policy

Veridiana coordinates EFF's activities with local organizations and activists in Latin America, where we work together to reinforce the defense of digital and human rights. Veridiana has been involved with telecommunications, media, Internet and human rights issues since 2009. She has been a member of Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) as one of the civil society representatives (2010-2013) and worked in Brazilian civil organizations such as Idec and Intervozes. Veridiana is a lawyer, has a Ph.D in Human Rights from the University of São Paulo Law School, and holds a Masters degree in Economic Law from the same institution.

International
Artemis and the ocean
Senior Front-End Web Developer

Artemis has worked on many of EFF's websites, such as Encrypt It Already,  Cover Your Tracks, this very site you're on, and many more. She also developed EFF's virtual reality site, Spot the Surveillance.

Engineering and Design
Accounting Director

Matthew is the Accounting Director at EFF. He has been a finance leader for several Bay Area nonprofits and brings his passion for civil liberties to EFF. Matthew enjoys spending time on the Russian River and hanging out with his partner and cat.

Finance/HR
Senior Staff Technologist

Daly 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.

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Tech Projects
Senior Staff Technologist

Bill 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. He is the lead developer of Cover Your Tracks, apkeep, led HTTPS Everywhere from 2015 to 2018, and has contributed to projects like Let's Encrypt and SecureDrop. Bill has spoken at USENIX Enigma (2016), HOPE (2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026), DEF CON (2023), CCC (2017), InfoSec Southwest (2017), ShmooCon (2019, 2020), and other infosec conferences. Bill's 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.

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Tech Projects
EFF Logo
Associate Director of Design

Kim manages EFF's designers on the Tech + Design team. She supports EFF's work through web design, graphics & production, and user research. She was previously on EFF's international team and managed the Surveillance Self-Defense project and content localization. She holds a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication and a B.A. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her free time, Kim enjoys hiking, painting, and espresso.

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Engineering and Design
Human Resources Manager

Amy serves as a member of EFF's Human Resources team. Before joining EFF, she gained experience in various HR roles across both the public and private sectors. Outside of work, Amy is a passionate boba enthusiast and a music lover who enjoys exploring a wide range of music genres.

Finance/HR
Staff Technologist

Lena is a Staff Technologist at EFF primarily focused on developing Privacy Badger—a browser extension used by over three million people to stop companies from tracking them as they browse the web. Lena also works on issues of commercial surveillance, the data broker industry, and consumer privacy. Lena holds a degree in Computer Science and Science, Technology, and Society from Brown University.

Senior Speech and Privacy Activist

As a lawyer, digital policy activist and community organizer, Paige works to dismantle systems of oppression and advance collective liberation. Her work focuses on highlighting how state surveillance and corporate restrictions stifle marginalized communities and perpetuate historic injustices and harm. She has worked with activists across the globe to facilitate systemic change by speaking truth to power and creating spaces for alternative imaginations; and her writing on digital justice has been featured in Wired, Politico, Teen Vogue, the Daily Beast and more.

Alongside her work at EFF, Paige is a board member at European Digital Rights (EDRi) and sits on the Advisory Committee for Litigation Grants at the Digital Freedom Fund (DFF).

Activism
Senior Staff Attorney

Sophia Cope is a Senior Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's civil liberties team, working on a variety of free speech and privacy issues. Key topics include border searches of electronic devices, surveillance and human rights, the right to record the police, Section 230, and student speech and student privacy online. She has been a civil liberties attorney for two decades and has experience in both litigation and policy advocacy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Slate, and Huffington Post.

Prior to joining EFF, Sophia spent eight years in Washington, D.C. She worked at the Newspaper Association of America (now the News Media Alliance) on freedom of the press and digital media issues, with a focus on protecting journalists'€™ confidential sources. She advocated for a federal shield law, 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" and spoke out against NSA surveillance.

Prior to NAA, Sophia worked at the Center for Democracy & Technology on a variety of civil liberties and human rights issues related to the Internet and technology, including the regulation of content on the Internet and broadcast television, and the privacy implications of government identification programs. She also worked on the development and launch of the Global Network Initiative.

Before moving to Washington, D.C., Sophia litigated at the First Amendment Project in Oakland, California, where she defended an environmental activist against a frivolous lawsuit 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.

Sophia was an adjunct professor of media law for nearly four years, teaching Washington, D.C.-area undergraduate communication and journalism students. She is on the board of the Public Participation Project and on the advisory board for Open Vallejo. She is a graduate of Santa Clara University and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF, formerly UC Hastings). She is proud to be a native Californian.

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Legal
Senior Staff Accountant

Keri is a Senior Staff Accountant 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 yoga, 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. 

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Finance/HR
Surveillance Litigation Director

Andrew’s work focuses on surveillance, privacy, and cybersecurity. As Surveillance Litigation Director, he leads EFF's legal work on issues at the intersection of technology and privacy through lawsuits and amicus briefs in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He also leads EFF’s Coders' Rights Project, which provides representation for security researchers, journalists, and hackers, who often face unwarranted legal threats and scrutiny for their work. Representative cases include challenging the constitutionality of national security letters (NSLs); working to establish that the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination protects against the compelled decryption of electronic devices; and limiting overbroad anti-hacking laws such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). He also writes and speaks about EFF’s legislative and advocacy priorities including FISA Section 702, anti-encryption proposals, location tracking and other novel surveillance techniques. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University.

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Legal
Creative Director

As EFF's Creative 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. All the work Hugh does for EFF is CC-licensed and can be downloaded, re-used and re-mixed from the EFF Flickr page. When Hugh isn't working for EFF, he creates illustrations for young adult novels, rock posters, magazines, and is currently working on a graphic novel. You can see more of his work on his personal website.

Press/Graphics
Assistant Director of Federal Affairs

Maddie Daly is the Assistant Director of Federal Affairs at EFF, focusing on federal issues relating to privacy, intellectual property, competition, and AI. As a former Congressional staffer, Maddie has experience covering the Judiciary and Rules committees for Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon. She uses this understanding of both legislative process and policymaking dynamics to defend civil liberties in the digital arena. 

Legal
Senior Donor Relations Manager

Daniel works to give EFF’s generous donors the best experience possible.

Before joining EFF he worked for a number of other cool nonprofits, including protecting the earth from asteroids with the B612 Foundation, making the world safer for bicyclists as Campaign Manager for America Bikes, building houses with Habitat for Humanity, and teaching children about philanthropy with Common Cents NY.

He has an MPA with a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the Evans School at the University of Washington and a BA in Sociology from Amherst College. He has been to every movie theater in San Francisco.

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Designer

She kept showing up to the Magic the Gathering draft parties.

Development
Chief Financial Officer

Kelly invokes her passion for all things numbers as EFF's Chief Financial Officer. 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 of most varieties, and attends local sporting events.

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