The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in the United States. The official address of the organization is:
The Tor Project969 Main Street, Suite 206
Walpole, MA 02081-2972 USA
The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees. Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics — if you have a problem or question, please look through the contact page for appropriate addresses.
Core Tor People
Carolyn Anhalt
Community and Translation Coordinator
Responsible for growing Tor's community moderators and translators. |
Jacob Appelbaum
Developer, Advocate, and Security Researcher
Our main advocate. Speaks at conferences and gives trainings all over the world to get people excited about Tor, explain how Tor is used in real world situations, and generally explain why anonymity online matters to you. Original developer of ttdnsd, Tor check, Tor DNSEL, and Tor weather site. |
Erinn Clark
Packaging and Build Automation
Erinn is tackling the growing needs for easy to install and configure packages on a variety of operating systems. Also working on automating the build system and producing nightly builds for all operating systems we support. |
Christopher Davis
Libevent hacker and Polipo maintainer
Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on porting Polipo to Windows and on helping with the libevent bufferevent code. Now he's the Polipo maintainer. |
Roger Dingledine
Project Leader; Director, Researcher
Original developer of Tor along with Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson. Leading researcher in the anonymous communications field. Frequent speaker at conferences to advocate Tor and explain what Tor is and can do. Helps coordinate academic researchers. |
Matt Edman
Vidalia Developer; Researcher
Lead developer for Vidalia, a cross-platform Tor GUI included in the bundles. |
Nathan Freitas
Mobile phone hacker
The driving force behind Tor on the Android platform in the form of Orbot. |
Christian Fromme
Developer
Christian works on all things python for Tor. He enhanced and maintains a slew of codebases for us, such as the get-tor email auto-responder, check.torproject.org, bridge db, tor weather, tor controller, tor flow, etc. |
Melissa Gilroy
CFO and Internal Audit
With a strong background in non-profit accounting and auditing, Melissa is in charge of Tor's finances, audit compliance, and keeping Tor's financial operations moving along. |
Sebastian Hahn
Developer
Worked during the 2008 Google Summer of Code on a networking application to automatically carry out tests for Tor and during the 2009 Google Summer of Code on expanding our secure updater to include BitTorrent support. Manages our git repository, reviews code patches, and generally helps out a lot. |
Damian Johnson
ARM Developer
Builds ARM, a command-line application for monitoring Tor relays and providing real-time status information such as the current configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc. |
Andrew Lewman
Executive Director; Director; press contact
Manages the business operations of The Tor Project, Inc. Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project management, and general support. |
Dr. Karsten Loesing
Researcher and Developer
Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on distributing and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden service descriptors. Currently the primary researcher for our National Science Foundation grant into anonymous metrics. |
Nick Mathewson
Chief Architect, Researcher, Director
One of the three original designers of Tor; does a lot of the ongoing design work. One of the two main developers, along with Roger. |
Dr. Steven Murdoch
Researcher and Developer
Researcher at the University of Cambridge, currently funded by The Tor Project to improve the security, performance, and usability of Tor. Creator of the Tor Browser Bundle. |
Peter Palfrader
Sysadmin and Developer
Manages the Debian packages, runs one of the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki, and generally helps out a lot. |
Mike Perry
Torbutton and Tor Performance Developer
Author of TorFlow, a Tor controller that builds paths through the Tor network and measures various properties and behaviors. Developer and maintainer of Torbutton. |
Karen Reilly
Marketing, Fundraising, and Grant Development Director
Responsible for fundraising, advocacy, and general marketing and outreach programs for Tor. |
Runa A. Sandvik
Translation Coordinator
Maintains the Tor Translation Portal, and works on automatically converting our website wml files to po files (and back) so that they can be handled by Pootle. |
Dr. Paul Syverson
Researcher
Inventor of Onion Routing, original designer of Tor along with Roger and Nick, and project leader for original design, development, and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research and design. |