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7)     <a href="<page index>">Home &raquo; </a>

8)     <a href="<page about/overview>">About &raquo; </a>

9)     <a href="<page about/corepeople>">Tor People</a>

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12)     <p>The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in

13)     the United States. The official address of the organization is:

14)     </p>

15) 
16)     <address>

17)     The Tor Project<br>
18)     969 Main Street, Suite 206<br>
19)     Walpole, MA 02081-2972 USA<br><br>

20)     </address>
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22)     <p>The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees.

23)     Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics — if you
24)     have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page

25)     about/contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>

26) 

27)   	<h1>Core Tor People</h1>

28) <dl>
29)           <dt>Jacob Appelbaum, Developer, Advocate, and Security Researcher</dt>

30)           <dd>Our main advocate.  Speaks at conferences and gives
31)           trainings all over the world to get people excited about Tor,
32)           explain how Tor is used in real world situations, and generally
33)           explain why anonymity online matters to you.  Original developer
34)           of ttdnsd, <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor
35)           check</a>, <a href="https://exitlist.torproject.org/">Tor
36)           DNSEL</a>, and <a href="https://weather.torproject.org">Tor
37)           weather</a> site. He is also a Staff Research Scientist at
38)           the University of Washington Computer Security and Privacy
39)           Research Lab.</dd>

40)           <dt>Erinn Clark, Packaging and Build Automation</dt>

41)           <dd>Erinn is tackling the growing needs for easy to install
42)           and configure packages on a variety of operating systems.
43)           Also working on automating the build system and producing
44)           nightly builds for all operating systems we support. Erinn is
45)           also doing some advocacy by talking to audiences at FSCONS,
46)           CodeBits.eu, and various European universites.</dd>

47)           <dt>Christopher Davis, Libevent hacker</dt>

48)           <dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on porting
49)           Polipo to Windows.  He currently helps with the libevent
50)           bufferevent code.</dd>

51)           <dt>Roger Dingledine, Project Leader; Director, Researcher</dt>

52)           <dd>Original developer of Tor along with Nick Mathewson and Paul
53)           Syverson. Leading researcher in the anonymous communications
54)           field.  Frequent speaker at conferences to advocate Tor and
55)           explain what Tor is and can do. Helps coordinate academic
56)           researchers.</dd>

57)           <dt>Matt Edman, Vidalia Developer; Researcher</dt>

58)           <dd>Developer for <a href="<page

59)           projects/vidalia>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor Graphical
60)           User Interface included in the bundles.</dd>

61)           <dt>Nathan Freitas, Mobile phone hacker</dt>

62)           <dd>The driving force behind <a
63)           href="https://guardianproject.info">The Guardian
64)           Project</a> and Tor on the Android platform in the form of
65)           <a href="<page docs/android>">Orbot</a>. He also works on <a
66)           href="https://guardianproject.info/apps/orlib/">OrLib</a>:
67)           an Android library for Tor, and <a
68)           href="https://guardianproject.info/apps/orweb/">Orweb: A
69)           privacy-enhanced mobile browser</a>.</dd>

70)           <dt>Christian Fromme, Developer</dt>

71)           <dd>Christian works on all things python for Tor.  He enhanced
72)           and maintains a slew of codebases for us, such as the get-tor
73)           email auto-responder, check.torproject.org, bridge db, tor
74)           weather, tor controller, tor flow, etc.</dd>

75)           <dt>Melissa Gilroy, CFO and Internal Audit</dt>

76)           <dd>With a strong background in non-profit accounting and
77)           auditing, Melissa is in charge of Tor's finances, audit
78)           compliance, and keeping Tor's financial operations moving
79)           along.</dd>

80)           <dt>Sebastian Hahn, Developer and Advocate</dt>
81)           <dd>One of the core contributors to Tor development, Sebastian
82)           also works on integrating new contributors into the community.
83)           After being a student in two Google Summer of Code programs in
84)           a row, he became one of the mentors the following year.
85)           He also speaks at various conferences about Tor and trains
86)           activists to safely use Tor.</dd>

87)       	  <dt>Thomas S. Benjamin, Researcher</dt>

88) 	      <dd>Anonymous communications and bridge distribution
89) 	      researcher. His other work can be found on his <a
90) 	      href="http://cryptocracy.net/">personal website</a></dd>

91)       	  <dt>Robert Hogan, Developer</dt>

92) 	      <dd>Developer for the <a
93) 	      href="http://tork.sf.net/">TorK</a> Tor controller, a <a
94) 	      href="http://code.google.com/p/torora/">privacy-oriented
95) 	      Arora fork</a>, the <a
96) 	      href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">torsocks
97) 	      scripts</a>, and other useful peripheral tools.</dd>

98)           <dt>Damian Johnson, Arm Developer</dt>

99)           <dd>Builds <a href="http://atagar.com/arm">Arm</a>,
100)           a command-line application for monitoring Tor relays and
101)           providing real-time status information such as the current
102)           configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc.</dd>

103)           <dt>Andrew Lewman, Executive Director; Director; <a href="<page press/press>">press contact</a></dt>

104)           <dd>Manages the business operations of The Tor Project, Inc.
105)           Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project management, strategy,
106)           press, and general support.</dd>

107)           <dt>Dr. Karsten Loesing, Researcher and Developer</dt>

108)           <dd>Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a

109)           href="<specblob>proposals/114-distributed-storage.txt">distributing

110)           and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden
111)           service descriptors</a>. Currently the primary
112)           researcher for our National Science Foundation grant
113)           into <a href="http://metrics.torproject.org/">anonymous
114)           metrics</a>.</dd>

115)           <dt>Nick Mathewson, Chief Architect, Researcher, Director</dt>

116)           <dd>One of the three original designers of Tor; does a lot
117)           of the ongoing design work. One of the two main developers,
118)           along with Roger.</dd>

119)           <dt>Dr. Steven Murdoch, Researcher and Developer</dt>

120)           <dd>Researcher at the University of Cambridge, currently funded
121)           by The Tor Project to improve the security, performance,
122)           and usability of Tor. Creator of the <a href="<page
123)           projects/torbrowser>">Tor Browser Bundle</a>.
124)           You can find out more about his work on his <a
125)           href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">professional
126)           website</a></dd>

127)       	  <dt>Linus Nordberg, Advocate</dt>

128) 	      <dd>Swedish advocate for Tor, anonymous
129) 	      communications research, and employee at <a
130) 	      href="http://nordu.net">NORDUnet</a>.</dd>

131)           <dt>Peter Palfrader, Sysadmin and Developer</dt>
132)           <dd>Manages the Debian packages, runs one of the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki, and generally helps out a lot.</dd>
133)           <dt>Mike Perry, Torbutton and Tor Performance Developer</dt>

134)           <dd>Author of <a
135)           href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>,
136)           a Tor controller that builds paths through the
137)           Tor network and measures various properties and
138)           behaviors. Developer and maintainer of <a href="<page
139)           torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>

140)           <dt>Robert Ransom</dt>
141)           <dd>Bug catcher and immensely helpful on irc and the
142)           email lists. Looking into hidden service performance and
143)           robustness.</dd>

144)           <dt>Karen Reilly, Development Director</dt>
145)           <dd>Responsible for fundraising, advocacy, general marketing,
146)           policy outreach programs for Tor. She is also available to
147)           speak for audiences about the benefits of online anonymity,
148)           privacy, and Tor.</dd>

149)           <dt>Runa A. Sandvik, Developer, Security Researcher, and Translation Coordinator</dt>

150)           <dd>Maintains the <a
151)           href="http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/torproject/">Tor

152)           Translation Portal</a> and the translations for a number of
153)           projects (such as Vidalia, Torbutton and the website). She
154) 	  also generally helps out with the <a

155)           href="<wiki>doc/Torouter">Torouter

156)           project</a>, bridge distribution through instant messaging,
157)           and other projects.</dd>

158)           <dt>Dr. Paul Syverson, Researcher</dt>

159)           <dd>Inventor of <a href="http://www.onion-router.net/">Onion
160)           Routing</a>, original designer of Tor along with Roger and
161)           Nick, and project leader for original design, development,
162)           and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research
163)           and design.</dd>

164)           <dt>Jeremy Todaro, Illustration &amp; Design</dt>

165)           <dd>Works on the artwork and design for various projects,
166)           annual reports, and brochures. His other work can be found at
167)           <a href="http://jmtodaro.com/">http://jmtodaro.com/</a>.</dd>

168)           <dt>Tomás Touceda, Vidalia Developer</dt>

169)           <dd>Maintenance and new development for Vidalia.</dd>
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