EPIC Board and Staff

EPIC Board of Directors

Marc Rotenberg, President [bio]
Deborah Hurley, Chair [bio]
Jerry Kang, Secretary [bio]
Edward G. Viltz, Treasurer [bio]
Anita L. Allen [bio]
Whitfield Diffie [bio]
Philip Friedman [bio]
Peter Neumann [bio]
Bruce Schneier [bio]

Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2007, Montreal, Canada: Open Panel on Net Freedom with EPIC Board of Directors

EPIC Staff

Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, [Mailbox], 202.483.1140 x106

Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He is a founding board member and former Chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain. He is editor of "The Privacy Law Sourcebook" and co-editor (with Daniel J. Solove and Paul Schwartz) of "Information Privacy Law" (Aspen Publishing 2006). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduation from law school. He is the recipient of several awards, including the World Technology Award in Law.

Lillie Coney, Associate Director [Mailbox], 202.483.1140 x111

Lillie Coney is Associate Director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. She is the Public Policy Coordinator for the National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI), and has testified before the Election Assistance Commission. She served on the Brennan Center Taskforces on the Security and Usability of Voting Systems. She also served as a member of the ACM Committee on Guidelines for Implementation of Voter Registration Databases. She participated as a contributor in the academic paper "Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems." She has written several law journal articles on voting, and contributed to the development of the Election Incident Reporting System. She is a contributor to the New York Times Best Seller, 50 Ways to Love Your Country. She serves in an advisory capacity to several organizations, which include Verified Voting, ACCURATE, Voting System Performance Rating, and Open Voting Consortium. She is also on the board of Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Melissa Ngo, Director, Identification and Surveillance Project [Mailbox], 202.483.1140 x123

Melissa Ngo is Senior Counsel and Director of EPIC's Identification and Surveillance Project. Her work focuses upon federal and state identification proposals, including the REAL ID Act and the US-VISIT program, and their impact on U.S. citizens and immigrant communities. Her work also includes Spotlight on Surveillance, which evaluates federal and state surveillance programs (such as camera surveillance systems, RFID or biometrics technology, and the federal watch lists) and their costs to civil liberties. She has testified about such programs before legislators and government agencies. She also works on the EPIC Open Government Project, which pursues Freedom of Information Act litigation. She is co-editor of Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws (FOIA) 2006. She previously worked as a journalist at USATODAY.com and The Washington Post. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and Georgetown University Law Center. Selections from Recent Publications and Testimony: Testimony about "SB 293 and RFID Technology" before the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee, March 17, 2008. Op-Ed against the use of surveillance cameras with facial recognition, "System flawed, raises civil-liberty issues," The Tennessean, December 21, 2007. Testimony about "DHS Proposed Regulations to Implement REAL ID" before the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security, March 21, 2007. Katitza Rodríguez Pereda, International Policy Fellow Ms Rodríguez is international policy fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, (EPIC) based in Lima, Perú. She concentrates on comparative policy and legal aspects of privacy, data protection and digital copyright issues in Latin America. She is associate editor of EPIC´s and Privacy International “Privacy and Human Rights Report (PHR) 2005  and 2006”, the most comprehensive survey of privacy laws and developments in the world. This year's edition includes reports of over 75 countries, including new reports for the Middle East, Latin America, and cyberspace. The report also finds continuing public opposition to video surveillance, workplace monitoring, and privacy-infringing corporate practices, and features new topics on biometric identification, Internet advertising, and location privacy. She is responsible for liaising with data protection authorities, policymakers, consumer and civil society organizations in Spain and Latin America on privacy, security and data protection issues.  She has participated at the Data Privacy Sub Group of the Electronic Commerce Group of the Asia Pacific Economic Forum, (APEC), The Ibero-American Data Protection Network meetings and the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners. Katitza is a Board Member and Founder of Computer Professional For Social Responsibility-Peru and serves on the Advisory Board of Privacy International. She organized serveral workshops of privacy and secure communications for Human Rights NGOs in Mexico, Venezuela, Perú and Colombia. She is field consultant of Benetech´s Martus Team. She is also Spanish editor of the Digital Security and Privacy project entailing the creation and translation of literary content for the Security edition of NGO-in-a-box. Previously, she was past Vice President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lima, with studies in E-business Project Managment at Escuela Superior de Administración de Negocios – ESAN (Perú) and DiploFoundation Internet Governance Capacity Building Advance Programme 2007. John Verdi, Director, Open Government Project [ Mailbox] 202.483.1140 x104 John Verdi is the Director of EPIC's Open Government Project. His work focuses on legal issues relating to open government, consumer privacy, and digital security. Prior to joining EPIC, Mr. Verdi was a civil litigation associate in Washington D.C. His litigation experience includes matters relating to federal and state open records statutes, Administrative Procedure Act claims regarding federal oversight, and tort cases involving digital information misappropriation and misuse. Prior to his career as a lawyer, Mr. Verdi worked as a computer programmer on a variety of projects, including several applications involving secure financial data. He also advised the National Hockey League on a host of technology issues, including data collection as it relates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and earned his BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Law at Binghamton University. Daniel Burger, Administrative Director [Mailbox], 202.483.1140 x119 Daniel Burger is EPIC’s Administrative Director. He manages EPIC’s top rated web site epic.org. Daniel also coordinates the EPIC Bookstore,  which recently released “Privacy and Human Rights 2006”, along with “Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws 2006.” He is also responsible for office services, shipping and communications, database management, EPIC events and special projects. Guilherme Roschke, Skadden Fellow [Mailbox], [PGP Key], 202.483.1140 x124 Guilherme Roschke joins EPIC in the fall of 2006 as a Skadden Fellow with a new project on privacy and domestic violence. Guilherme is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School and a former EPIC clerk. Simon Davies, Senior Fellow [Mailbox] Simon Davies is an EPIC Senior Fellow and the founder and director of Privacy International, a London-based human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, where he helped direct the research on a landmark report on national identification. Simon Davies is a leading authority on privacy and the impact of technology on society and the individual and the author of numerous books and articles. Harry Hammitt, Senior Fellow Harry Hammitt is editor and publisher of Access Reports, a biweekly newsletter on the Freedom of Information Act and open government laws and policies. He also edits Canada and Abroad, a monthly newsletter covering access and privacy issues in Canada. He has written and lectured extensively on access and privacy issues in both the United States and Canada. He is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals and currently serves on its board. He also serves on the board of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government. He was inducted into the FOI Hall of Fame at the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Virginia, in 2001. Christopher Soghoian, Technology Policy Fellow Christopher Soghoian is a PhD student in the School of Informatics at Indiana University. His research is focused on phishing, privacy and cyber-law. He is a nationally recognized expert in the area of airport security, and he was cited by the House Oversight Committee for his work in exposing flaws in a website run by the Transportation Security Administration. He is the primary inventor of four pending patents in the areas of anti-virus defenses, phishing, mobile authentication and privacy preserving digital payments. He blogs regularly at http://www.cnet.com/surveillance-state/

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EPIC Internet Public Interest Opportunities Program Clerks

2008

Benjy Messner, Youth Privacy Fellow
Cynthia Aoki, University of Ottawa School of Law
Katie Black, University of Ottawa School of Law
Meghan Murtha, University of Ottawa School of Law
Byron Thom, University of Ottawa School of Law
Sobia Virk, McGill University Faculty of Law

2007

Tanith Balaban, Case Western Reserve Law School
Jonathan David, Northeastern University School of Law
Caitriona Fitzgerald, Northeastern University School of Law
Harley Geiger, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
Jeremy Hessing-Lewis, University of Ottawa School of Law
Evan Mayor, George Washington School of Law
Jena McGill, University of Ottawa School of Law
Mark Pike, William and Mary School of Law
Jennifer Shyu, University of San Diego
Ravinder Singh, University of Ottawa School of Law
Evan Stern, Georgetown University Law Center
Felix Tang, University of Ottawa School of Law
Timothy Vollmer, University of Michigan
Aleah Yung, Georgetown University Law Center

2006Courtney Barclay, University of Florida College of Law
Natalie Bellefeuille, University of Ottawa School of Law
Kim Fielding, Duke University Law School
Andrew Huzar, University of Ottawa School of Law
Angela Long, University of Ottawa School of Law
Jennifer O'Sullivan, University College Cork
Josh Parker, Duke University
D. Richard Rasmussen, University of Wisconsin Law School
Anthony Ritz, Georgetown University Law Center
Jay Goodman Tamboli, Georgetown University Law Center
Sunni Yuen, University of Pennsylvania Law School2005Jennifer Barrigar, University of Ottawa School of Law
Michael Capiro, University of Dayton School of Law
Charles Duan, Harvard Law School
Amina Fazlullah, University of Minnesota Law School
Louisa Garib, University of Ottawa School of Law
Michelle Gordon, University of Ottawa School of Law
Anthony Gray, University of Wisconsin School of Law (EPIC West)
Rakeim Hadley, University of Tennessee College of Law
Emily Honig, Colby College
Olive Huang, Boalt Hall School of Law (EPIC West)
Kristina Irion, The Martin - Luther - University of Halle
Dhruv Kapadia, University of Virginia
Robert King, Georgetown University Law Center
Carole Lucock, University of Ottawa School of Law
Ibrahim Moiz, Howard University School of Law
Catherine Ó Súilleabháin, Georgetown University Law Center
Yong Jin Park, University of Michigan
Leila Pourtavaf, University of Ottawa School of Law
Tori Praul, Boalt Hall School of Law (EPIC West)
Guilherme Roschke, George Washington University School of Law
Jessica Shannon, Georgetown University Law Center
Kathryn Sheely, Louisiana State University Law Center
Nerisha Singh, Exeter College, University of Oxford2004Elizabeth Austern, George Washington University Law School
Alex Cameron, University of Ottawa School of Law
John Doe, Harvard Law
Kenneth Farrall, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Denise Golumbaski, American University Washington College of Law
Neal Hartzog, George Washington University Law School
Paul Jones, Northeastern University School of Law
Samantha Liskow, Columbia University School of Law
Dina Mashayekhi, University of Ottawa School of Law
Alexandra Minoff, Georgetown University Law Center
Patrick Mueller, University of Wisconsin School of Law
Katherine Oyama, Boalt Hall School of Law
Olumide Owoo, Columbia University School of Law
Amanda Reid, University of Florida School of Law
Tara Wheatland, Boalt Hall School of Law
Angela White, American University Washington College of Law2003Ruchika Agrawal, Stanford University
Doug Barnes, University of Texas School of Law
John Baggaley, University of Wisconsin School of Law
Erik Blum, Brooklyn Law School
Jane Doe, American University Washington College of Law
Munged Dolah, Brooklyn Law School
Eva Gutierrez, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Micheal O Dowd, University College Cork
Milana Homsi, University of Ottawa School of Law
Waseem Karim, Washington University School of Law
David Levin, Barrie School (Montgomery County, MD)
Sara Rose, Georgetown University Law Center
Christian Schroeder, University of Kiel
Sherwin Siy, Boalt Hall School of Law
Kerry Smith, Northeastern University School of Law
Tiffany Stedman, George Washington University Law School
Elizabeth Tockman, American University Washington College of Law
Mike Trinh, Georgetown University Law Center
Maryam Zafar, University of Maryland School of Law 2002Nicole Anastasopoulos, University of Toronto
Lauren Collins, University of Michigan
Will DeVries, Boalt Hall School of Law
Marcia Hofmann, University of Dayton School of Law
Adam Kessel, Northeastern University School of Law
Mihir Kshirsagar, Harvard College
Dwayne Nelson, Georgetown University Law Center
Rossa McMahon, University College Cork
Alex Macoun, Duke Law School / University of Sydney
Carla Meninsky, George Washington School of Law
Nathan Mitchler, American University Washington College of Law
Jane Doe, Catholic University School of Law
Jane Doe, Georgetown University Law Center
Rob Swanson, Catholic University School of Law
Jason Young, Queen's University / University of Ottawa2001

Jane Doe, City University of New York School of Law
Greg Kahn, Boalt Hall School of Law
Richard Holland, University of Wisconsin School of Law (Kennan Peck Fellow)
Erika McCallister, Wake Forest University School of Law
Gary Schneider, Whittier School of Law
Roia Shefayee, Santa Clara University School of Law / Johns Hopkins University
Jason Sonoda, Boalt Hall School of Law
Maureen Thorson, Georgetown University Law Center
Jane Doe, National University of Ireland, Cork
John Doe, Harvard Law School