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<a href="<page index>">Home &raquo; </a>
<a href="<page about/overview>">About &raquo; </a>
<a href="<page about/corepeople>">Tor People</a>
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<p>The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in
the United States. The official address of the organization is:
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The Tor Project<br>
969 Main Street, Suite 206<br>
Walpole, MA 02081-2972 USA<br><br>
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<p>The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees.
Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics &mdash; if you
have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page
about/contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>
<h1>Core Tor People</h1>
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<dt>Jacob Appelbaum, Developer, Advocate, and Security Researcher</dt>
<dd>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, <a href="https://check.torproject.org/">Tor
check</a>, <a href="https://exitlist.torproject.org/">Tor
DNSEL</a>, and <a href="https://weather.torproject.org">Tor
weather</a> site. He is also a Staff Research Scientist at
the University of Washington Computer Security and Privacy
Research Lab.</dd>
<dt>Erinn Clark, Packaging and Build Automation</dt>
<dd>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. Erinn is
also doing some advocacy by talking to audiences at FSCONS,
CodeBits.eu, and various European universites.</dd>
<dt>Christopher Davis, Libevent hacker</dt>
<dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on porting
Polipo to Windows. He currently helps with the libevent
bufferevent code.</dd>
<dt>Roger Dingledine, Project Leader; Director, Researcher</dt>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dt>Matt Edman, Vidalia Developer; Researcher</dt>
<dd>Developer for <a href="<page
projects/vidalia>">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor Graphical
User Interface included in the bundles.</dd>
<dt>Nathan Freitas, Mobile phone hacker</dt>
<dd>The driving force behind <a
href="https://guardianproject.info">The Guardian
Project</a> and Tor on the Android platform in the form of
<a href="<page docs/android>">Orbot</a>. He also works on <a
href="https://guardianproject.info/apps/orlib/">OrLib</a>:
an Android library for Tor, and <a
href="https://guardianproject.info/apps/orweb/">Orweb: A
privacy-enhanced mobile browser</a>.</dd>
<dt>Christian Fromme, Developer</dt>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dt>Melissa Gilroy, CFO and Internal Audit</dt>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dt>Sebastian Hahn, Developer and Advocate</dt>
<dd>One of the core contributors to Tor development, Sebastian
also works on integrating new contributors into the community.
After being a student in two Google Summer of Code programs in
a row, he became one of the mentors the following year.
He also speaks at various conferences about Tor and trains
activists to safely use Tor.</dd>
<dt>Thomas S. Benjamin, Researcher</dt>
<dd>Anonymous communications and bridge distribution
researcher. His other work can be found on his <a
href="http://cryptocracy.net/">personal website</a></dd>
<dt>Robert Hogan, Developer</dt>
<dd>Developer for the <a
href="http://tork.sf.net/">TorK</a> Tor controller, a <a
href="http://code.google.com/p/torora/">privacy-oriented
Arora fork</a>, the <a
href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">torsocks
scripts</a>, and other useful peripheral tools.</dd>
<dt>Damian Johnson, Arm Developer</dt>
<dd>Builds <a href="http://atagar.com/arm">Arm</a>,
a command-line application for monitoring Tor relays and
providing real-time status information such as the current
configuration, bandwidth usage, message log, etc.</dd>
<dt>Andrew Lewman, Executive Director; Director; <a href="<page press/press>">press contact</a></dt>
<dd>Manages the business operations of The Tor Project, Inc.
Plays roles of finance, advocacy, project management, strategy,
press, and general support.</dd>
<dt>Dr. Karsten Loesing, Researcher and Developer</dt>
<dd>Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a
href="<specblob>proposals/114-distributed-storage.txt">distributing
and securing the publishing and fetching of hidden
service descriptors</a>. Currently the primary
researcher for our National Science Foundation grant
into <a href="http://metrics.torproject.org/">anonymous
metrics</a>.</dd>
<dt>Nick Mathewson, Chief Architect, Researcher, Director</dt>
<dd>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.</dd>
<dt>Dr. Steven Murdoch, Researcher and Developer</dt>
<dd>Researcher at the University of Cambridge, currently funded
by The Tor Project to improve the security, performance,
and usability of Tor. Creator of the <a href="<page
projects/torbrowser>">Tor Browser Bundle</a>.
You can find out more about his work on his <a
href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/">professional
website</a></dd>
<dt>Linus Nordberg, Advocate</dt>
<dd>Swedish advocate for Tor, anonymous
communications research, and employee at <a
href="http://nordu.net">NORDUnet</a>.</dd>
<dt>Peter Palfrader, Sysadmin and Developer</dt>
<dd>Manages the Debian packages, runs one of the directory authorities, runs the website and the wiki, and generally helps out a lot.</dd>
<dt>Mike Perry, Torbutton and Tor Performance Developer</dt>
<dd>Author of <a
href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>,
a Tor controller that builds paths through the
Tor network and measures various properties and
behaviors. Developer and maintainer of <a href="<page
torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>
<dt>Robert Ransom</dt>
<dd>Bug catcher and immensely helpful on irc and the
email lists. Looking into hidden service performance and
robustness.</dd>
<dt>Karen Reilly, Development Director</dt>
<dd>Responsible for fundraising, advocacy, general marketing,
policy outreach programs for Tor. She is also available to
speak for audiences about the benefits of online anonymity,
privacy, and Tor.</dd>
<dt>Runa A. Sandvik, Developer, Security Researcher, and Translation Coordinator</dt>
<dd>Maintains the <a
href="http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/torproject/">Tor
Translation Portal</a> and the translations for a number of
projects (such as Vidalia, Torbutton and the website). She
also generally helps out with the <a
href="<wiki>doc/Torouter">Torouter
project</a>, bridge distribution through instant messaging,
and other projects.</dd>
<dt>Dr. Paul Syverson, Researcher</dt>
<dd>Inventor of <a href="http://www.onion-router.net/">Onion
Routing</a>, 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.</dd>
<dt>Jeremy Todaro, Illustration &amp; Design</dt>
<dd>Works on the artwork and design for various projects,
annual reports, and brochures. His other work can be found at
<a href="http://jmtodaro.com/">http://jmtodaro.com/</a>.</dd>
<dt>Tomás Touceda, Vidalia Developer</dt>
<dd>Maintenance and new development for Vidalia.</dd>
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