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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>Lead 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</dt>

81)           <dd>Worked during the 2008 Google Summer of Code on a networking
82)           application to automatically carry out tests for Tor and during
83)           the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding our secure updater
84)           to include BitTorrent support. Manages our git repository,
85)           reviews code patches, and generally helps out a lot.</dd>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

167)           <dt>Tomás Touceda</dt>
168)           <dd>Maintenance and new development for Vidalia.</dd>
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