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Aaron Johnson IRC: ohmygodel NRL researcher in applied cryptography with an interest in Tor’s security and privacy.	Alexander Færøy IRC: ahf Pronoun: he Works on core Tor development.
Alison Macrina IRC: flexlibris Pronoun: she Leads the Community Team and Library Freedom Project. Works on support, outreach, and training.	Allen Gunn IRC: gunner Executive Director of Aspiration, where he works with NGOs, activists, and human rights groups. Meeting facilitator and member of Tor's Community Council.
Amogh Pradeep IRC: amoghbl1 Lead developer of Orfox and contributor to Orbot.	Andreas Lehner Works at the intersection of security, privacy, data integrity and anonymity both in politics and technology.
Antonela Debiasi IRC: antonela Designer working with the UX team. Making Tor usable for everyone.	Arlo Breault IRC: arlolra Developer for Snowflake, Tor Messenger, and Check.
Arthur Edelstein IRC: arthuredelstein Works on Tor Browser.	Arturo Filastò IRC: hellais Project leader for OONI, has helped with tor2web, wrote Atlas which later became Relay Search, and helps improve security.
brade IRC: brade Developer on the Tor Browser team.	Chelsea Komlo IRC: komlo Chelsea is a software/security engineer and contributes to core tor.
Cindy Cohn Pronoun: she Tor Board member and Executive Director of the EFF. Lawyer by training, her focus is on making sure Tor stays available and that Tor users stay safe.	Colin Childs IRC: Phoul Relay advocate, Outreachy mentor, and a member of the community team. He is also a director of the Canadian Torservers.net partner Coldhak.
Damian Johnson IRC: atagar Pronoun: he Author of the Stem python controller library and Nyx relay monitor.	David Goulet IRC: dgoulet Tor development team focusing on onion services and our torsocks maintainer.
David Stainton IRC: dawuud Author of roflcoptor and honeybadger. Researches mixnets and contributes to txtorcon.	Donncha O'Cearbhaill IRC: DonnchaC Onion services developer, OnionBalance developer, hunter of bad relays.
Erin Wyatt IRC: ewyatt Non-technical switchboard for people-related things: recruiting, onboarding, benefits, contracts, TPI policy questions, and baked goods.	Gabriella Coleman IRC: biella Anthropologist and Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University.
George IRC: gman999 Tor BSD Diversity Project member, long-time relay operator, trainer.	Georg Koppen IRC: GeKo Currently lead of the Tor Browser team.
George Kadianakis IRC: asn Onion services. Security analysis. Used to obfsproxy. Follower of the onion.	Griffin Boyce IRC: saint Tamper-resistant software distribution, censorship detection, Cupcake, and security training of activists and domestic violence survivors.
Gustavo Gus IRC: ggus Works as Community Liaison in Global South. Trainer, relay operator and Tor advocate. CryptoRave organizer.	Heather DeSellier IRC: heatherd Chief Financial and Grants Officer of The Tor Project..
Helen Nyinakiiza IRC: nyinz I am very excited and honored to contribute to the Tor project on its mission to provide usable technologies to the global south.	Iain Learmonth IRC: irl Pronoun: he Metrics team member and maintainer of Relay Search.
Ian Goldberg Pronoun: he Professor of CS at the University of Waterloo, developing Off-the-Record Messaging among other things.	Igor Oliveira IRC: igt0 Works on Tor Browser.
intrigeri Pronoun: he He is one of our main interfaces with the Tails project.	Isabela Bagueros IRC: isabela Coordinates Tor's development teams and roadmaps. Keeps track of priorities, and ensures Tor always thinks of the "user first".
isra Rewrote the GetTor service.	iwakeh Speaks Java and other languages, streamlines build processes, and scrutinizes mathematical concepts behind aggregating tons of Tor network data.
Jennifer Helsby IRC: redshiftzero Lead developer of the SecureDrop whistleblower platform based at the Freedom of the Press Foundation.	Jens Kubieziel IRC: qbi Volunteer that helped translate the website, is part of TorServers.net, and Tor's sysadmin team.
Jon Selon IRC: jselon Event Coordination, donor management, general office operations.	juga IRC: juga Contributed to OONI, bug tracker features, wrote tordyguards. Currently working on bandwidth scanner.
Julius Mittenzwei Germany-based lawyer and Internet activist.	Juris Vetra IRC: juris Board member of torservers.net.
Karsten Loesing IRC: karsten Pronoun: he Primary researcher and developer into anonymous metrics which started as a National Science Foundation grant.	Kat IRC: kat5 Pronoun: she Volunteer on the Community Team. Helps with t-shirts for relay operators and other odds and ends.
Kate Krauss IRC: ailanthus Writes about Tor in mainstream and technical publications and conducts community workshops to teach people about Tor.	Kushal Das IRC: kushal Pronoun: he SecureDrop developer at the Freedom of Press Foundation. Member of the community team, privacy advocate focusing on new users.
Leif Ryge Works on security analysis, designer of "bananaphone" transport.	Linus Nordberg IRC: ln5 Swedish advocate and Tor Board member. He works on implementing IPv6 in Tor, build automation, and runs a directory authority.
Maria Xynou IRC: agrabeli Pronoun: she Maria manages OONI's Partnership Program and writes research reports on internet censorship around the world.	Mark Smith IRC: mcs Pronoun: he Developer on the Tor Browser team.
Matt Blaze Chairs the Tor Board of Directors. Professor at the University of Pennsylvania where he researches security, privacy, and anonymity.	Matt Traudt IRC: pastly Matt implemented the KIST scheduler into Tor. He helps safely measure Tor and says helpful things on IRC.
Matthew Finkel IRC: sysrqb Worked on tor, torsocks, and many other projects. Helped maintain and develop BridgeDB.	meejah IRC: meejah Author of txtorcon, carml and other Tor Python tools including some for bad-relay hunting.
Micah Lee Developer of OnionShare and Tor Browser Launcher journalist and security engineer at The Intercept and advocate for freedom of the press.	Mike Tigas IRC: mtigas Works on Onion Browser, iOS, and hacker-journalist at ProPublica running their onion service.
Moritz Bartl Co-founder of torservers.net, a network of non-profit organizations that run Tor exit relays.	Nathan Freitas IRC: n8fr8 Founder of the Guardian Project. Orbot lead developer and contributor to Orfox, Onion Browser and NetCipher SDK. Director of Technology at Tibet Action Institute.
Nick Hopper IRC: nickhopper Pronoun: he Researcher interested in improving Tor's performance and resistance to traffic analysis. Some of my work is described here.	Nick Mathewson IRC: nickm Pronoun: he One of the three original designers of Tor - does a lot of the ongoing design work, and coordinates and leads ongoing development.
Nicolas Vigier IRC: boklm Pronoun: he Works on Tor Browser.	Nima Fatemi IRC: mrphs His main area of interests are End-users Accessibility/Security, UX, Censorship, Advocacy and Onion Services.
Parinishtha IRC: pari Works with UX and Community teams, and on Tor India initiatives. Started as an Outreachy intern.	Paul Syverson IRC: syverson NRL researcher on most things Tor. Inventor of onion routing, and one of the three original designers of Tor.
Pepijn Le Heux Lawyer based in The Netherlands and co-founder of Hart voor Internetvrijheid.	Peter Palfrader Manages the Debian packages, runs one of the directory authorities, and generally helps out a lot.
Philipp Winter IRC: phw Maintains exitmap and sybilhunter, works on bad relay detection, and does security and privacy research.	Rabbi Rob Thomas CEO of Team Cymru, which supports Tor through hosting, research, and infosec assistance.
Ramy Raoof Tor Board member, technologist, and privacy and security researcher.	Richard Pospesel IRC: pospeselr Tor Browser developer.
Rob Jansen IRC: robgjansen NRL research scientist, leading expert in Tor network performance, and author of Shadow.	Roger Dingledine IRC: arma Original developer of Tor along with Nick and Paul. Leading privacy researcher, coordinating developers and researchers.
sajolida Pronoun: he Technical writing, UX, and fundraising for Tails.	Sarah Stevenson Pronoun: she Directs and coordinates all fundraising activities.
Sebastian Hahn Helps people around the world use and understand Tor better. Generally helps everything run smoothly. Runs one of the directory authorities.	Shane Isbell IRC: sisbell Pronoun: he Works on Tor Browser for Android.
Shari Steele IRC: ssteele Pronoun: she Executive Director of the Tor Project, Inc.	Silvia Puglisi IRC: hiro Hiro builds and runs Tor Project's web applications and services.
Sina Rabbani IRC: inf0 Directory authority operator, outreach and trains human rights activists. System's Engineer at Team Cymru and co-Founder of accessnow.org.	Stephanie Whited IRC: stephw Pronoun: she Directs communications.
Steven Murdoch IRC: sjmurdoch Pronoun: he Principal Research Fellow at University College London. He is the original creator of the Tor Browser.	Sukhbir Singh IRC: sukhe TorBirdy and Tor Messenger developer. Member of the Community Team.
Suphanat Chunhapanya IRC: haxxpop Contributes to core Tor and especially onion services.	Taylor Yu IRC: catalyst Pronoun: they Software archaeologist and keeper of C language arcana. Works with applied cryptography, protocol design, software security, and technical debt restructuring.
teor IRC: teor Pronoun: they Tor developer and chutney maintainer. Currently working on onion services, directory documents, and statistics.	Tom Ritter IRC: tjr Pronoun: he Maintains Consensus Health , runs one of the bandwidth authorities, and contributes to Tor Browser.
Tommy Collison IRC: t0mmy Writes and edits grant proposals, one-pagers, blogposts, etc.	Vinícius Zavam IRC: egypcio TorBSD Diversity Project (TDP); IPv6 Enthusiast, BSD Systems Evangelist, and Bridges/Relays Operator.
Wendy Seltzer IRC: wseltzer Pronoun: she Techie lawyer and former Tor board member. She works on legal and policy support for private and secure communications.	Yawning Angel Author and maintainer of the Linux Tor Browser sandbox.

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