Board of Directors

Carey Shenkman is an attorney, author, and litigator focusing on constitutional law and international human rights. He has worked on a range of topics including artificial intelligence, data brokers, encryption, cybercrime policy, and border device seizures. Carey has consulted for numerous free speech and digital rights organizations, including ARTICLE 19 and the Center for Democracy and Technology, and serves as an advisor on Columbia University's Global Freedom of Expression project. Prior to pursuing law Carey completed two degrees in mathematics.

Micah Anderson is the co-founder of RiseUp Networks and has been a Unix system administrator for more than a decade. Micah is also a tech activist working on free software, media activism and corralling servers to create grassroots democratic technology alternatives. For the non-profit Riseup Networks he has architected extensive technical infrastructure providing colocation, secure email, websites and mailing lists to over half a million activists world-wide. Additionally, he has worked to build popular communications capacity in media centers and social movements in South America, shared free software skills and strategies with civil society tech workers in Africa and Central/Eastern Europe, and is a Debian Developer working on customized Debian distributions geared towards non-profits.

Kobi Snitz has a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science, Physics and Math from the University of Toronto. He also holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. Early in his undergraduate studies in the early 1990's, Kobi has been introduced to the fundamental questions of computer science. These range from questions of computability and the future of computing to questions about computers and society. These interests have led him to volunteer as an administrator and editor at The Independent Media Center and also motivate his current work in a Neurobiology lab.