Alison Macrina Author

Along with founding the Library Freedom Project, Alison Macrina is a librarian, internet activist, and a core contributor to The Tor Project. Passionate about surveillance and its connection to global injustice, she works to demystify privacy and security topics for ordinary users. She partnered with the Massachusetts ACLU to develop workshops to improve librarians’ understanding of digital surveillance issues, which included an online privacy software toolkit that can be installed on library computers; other institutional partners included the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project. In 2015 she was awarded a two-year grant from the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge: Libraries to to expand their reach.

Talya Cooper is Digital Archivist at The Intercept, based in New York. Previously, she was Archive Manager at StoryCorps. She has written and presented about the intersections of archival ethics, privacy, and security.