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Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy rights activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedoms. Alison is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and giant multinational corporations. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s reading.
Kade Crockford is the director of the Technology for Liberty project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, where she writes the Privacy Matters blog. Her writing has appeared in Truthout, the Nation, the Guardian, and the Boston Globe, among many other outlets. In addition to writing and public speaking on surveillance, Kade conducts research and serves as an in-house policy expert on issues at the intersection of policing and technology. 
Kevin Gallagher is a Linux systems administrator assisting the Library Freedom Project. He’s also a writer and activist who is enthusiastic about privacy, security and freedom of information. He’s been an advocate as the director of Free Barrett Brown, a support network and legal defense fund formed to help a jailed journalist. He now works primarily for Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit that supports and defends transparency journalism, and also helps Transparency Toolkit, an organization that gathers open data on surveillance and human rights abuses and develops free software to analyze it, on the side. In his extra free time he’s really into culture and occasionally acts as a musician.
April Glaser is a writer and an activist with the Library Freedom Project. She currently works as a mobilization specialist at Greenpeace USA, where she focuses on ending oil extraction in the Arctic. Prior to Greenpeace, April was at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, organizing around the net neutrality campaign and EFF’s grassroots programming. April also previously worked with the Prometheus Radio Project, where her efforts helped propel the passage of the Local Community Radio Act, the largest expansion of community radio in U.S. history. She lives in Oakland, California and continues to work with local organizations on a range of digital rights issues.