Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and legal analyst whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review, and Politico. He also writes a column on press freedom for Columbia Journalism Review.

Trevor formerly worked as an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before that, he helped the longtime General Counsel of The New York Times, James Goodale, write a book on the Pentagon Papers and the First Amendment. He received his J.D. from New York Law School.

In 2013, he received the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism.

Louise Black is the VP of Development and Operations at Freedom of the Press Foundation where she oversees the organization’s fundraising goals and day-to-day operations. She has a rich background in progressive activism and previously worked as the Deputy Director of Major Gifts and Events at People For the American Way in Washington, D.C. Louise also received a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the George Washington University in 2017 and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Financial Stewardship from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2022. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Harlo Holmes is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and was a regular contributor to the open source mobile security collective The Guardian Project. Harlo is also an adjunct professor at New York University.

Kirstin is Vice President of Editorial for Freedom of the Press Foundation, overseeing the organization’s editorial strategy and standards. She’s also managing editor of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project documenting press freedom violations in the United States in partnership between FPF and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Twitter: @TrackerKK

Harris Lapiroff is Principal Web Developer at Freedom of the Press Foundation, overseeing the design and technical details of web projects. Previously, Harris was cofounder of a worker-cooperative web development agency that developed nonprofit and social good websites in a variety of fields. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Erik is VP of Engineering at Freedom of the Press Foundation. Prior to joining FPF, Erik worked on many free and open projects. Chief among them was the Wikimedia Foundation, where he was a volunteer, board member, and executive, and helped build the organization into the free culture powerhouse it is today. Erik has also worked as a journalist and author, project manager, public speaker, and software engineer. He lives in Portland, Oregon and enjoys hiking, reading, and building alternatives to proprietary tech platforms.

You can follow him on Mastodon.

Kevin is the Engineering Manager for the SecureDrop team at Freedom of the Press Foundation. Kevin is based in Toronto, Canada. His involvement in digital security stems from his time spent working in various roles with media organizations including the CBC and The Globe And Mail, where he led security workshops for journalists and worked with FPF to implement the first Canadian SecureDrop instance.

Seth Stern is the Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation. He oversees FPF’s efforts to defend and protect press freedoms and stand up for journalists and whistleblowers who have been denied their rights. Prior to joining FPF, Seth practiced media and First Amendment law at the Chicago law firm Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd. (FVLD). He remains affiliated with FVLD on an “Of Counsel” basis. He also chairs the Chicago Bar Association’s Media and Entertainment Law Committee and the American Bar Association TIPS Media, Privacy and Advertising Law Committee. Before law school, Seth worked as a reporter and editor in the Chicago and Atlanta areas. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Abigail LP is the Newsroom Services Manager at Freedom of the Press Foundation. Prior to working at FPF, Abigail worked for ed-tech company BloomBoard as a Content Development Specialist. They have an eclectic professional background including experience in content production, project management, and communications as well as a rich history as an artist, educator, and community organizer.

Abigail is the founder and artistic administrator of folkLAB, an applied art project committed to equitable art-making that creates new work with underrepresented artists. They believe in a free press from Pittsburgh to Palestine (and beyond!), collective liberation, self-determination, and magic. Abigail lives in Western Pennsylvania where they can often be found biking, volunteering with local mutual aid groups, and cuddling with their three cats.

Saptak S (he/him) is a Web Developer for Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is passionate about making websites more inclusive and usable by everyone. He is an active contributor and maintainer of various different Open Source projects and communities.

Cameron Higby-Naquin is a senior software engineer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation.  He works on the web development team building and maintaining the organization's web projects.  He believes in the open web, free software, and that technology can solve problems in the world and in our everyday lives.  He has witnessed the rise and fall of a great number of trends in the design and construction of websites, and in spite of this continues to think building them is a good idea.  He resides in Vermont where he enjoys music, dance, and the outdoors.

Caitlin Vogus is the Deputy Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, where she works to defend and protect press freedoms, journalists, and whistleblowers. Prior to FPF, Caitlin was the Deputy Director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, an attorney advisor at the Federal Communications Commission, and a law clerk at the Virginia Court of Appeals. Caitlin received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, where she was a student journalist. Caitlin is based in Washington, DC.

Olivia Martin is the Deputy Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. A graduate of NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, her professional work focuses on researching and delivering digital security trainings to journalists, activists, and human rights defenders. She has spent years in newsrooms as a designer and editor with new media and student publications, and uses this experience to aid in assessing the evolving needs of journalists in today's media landscape.

David Huerta is a Senior Digital Security Trainer at Freedom of the Press Foundation, where he trains journalists in privacy-enhancing technology to empower a free press. He’s taught hundreds of trainings across the world and has previously organized the digital security track at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference. He’s also spoken on the subject of usable privacy technology at DEF CON, Radical Networks, Rightscon, Facets, Allied Media Conference and anywhere the words "use PGP" summon him to a stump speech.

Dr. Martin Shelton is the Principal Researcher at Freedom of the Press Foundation, conducting user research on harassment of journalists and digital security education in J-schools. He also leads security editorial and the U.S. J-school digital security curriculum.

As a UX researcher he previously worked with Google Chrome, and the Coral Project at the New York Times, where he learned from journalists and at-risk groups about their security concerns. In a former life, he was a disaffected academic and earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine.

Stephanie Sugars is the senior reporter for the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. She documents press freedom violations in the U.S. and by U.S. officials abroad. A graduate of NYU's Global and Joint Program Studies program in journalism and international relations, her professional work focuses on human rights, politics, and identity-targeted violence. She has previously worked at the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Post-Conflict Research Center, and her freelance reporting has appeared in Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, Muftah, Civic Ideas, and Balkan Diskurs.

A New Mexican living in New York, her interests include hiking, board games, pool, and reading all the books she amassed while working at a bookstore.

Rowen is an Engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation. Rowen's introduction to the world of digital security was as a software engineer working on circumvention and anti-censorship projects. She has worked within the internet freedom community as a software developer and as a digital security trainer, and in her pre-tech existence as a community organizer, courier, and warehouse worker.

Rowen enjoys coding, not coding, and can often be found outdoors under a tree. She is based in Ontario, Canada.

Allie is the Program Manager for the Engineering department at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She was previously the technical lead of the SecureDrop Workstation project.

Michael is a Senior Software Engineer on the SecureDrop team at Freedom of the Press Foundation. He has been roaming the media arts and tech communities for nearly two decades building large interactive installations, consulting activists and union organizers on computer security, as well as contributing the odd patch to open source projects in the process. He both loves and loathes computers, which is why he won't stop tinkering with them. Michael is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Kunal Mehta is a Senior Software Engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation. He previously worked at the Wikimedia Foundation where he served as a core developer for MediaWiki, among other roles. He's a strong believer in the free knowledge and software movements, spending free time editing Wikipedia and contributing to the Debian project.Having earned a degree in journalism from San José State University, Kunal is blending his interests in First Amendment rights and free software by working on SecureDrop.

Cory Myers (he/him) is a Senior Software Engineer on the SecureDrop team at Freedom of the Press Foundation. He studied philosophy at Deep Springs College and Yale College, where he was an undergraduate fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. In 2023–2024, he is an Internet of Rights Fellow with ARTICLE 19, focusing on anti-censorship advocacy within the Internet Engineering Task Force. He also serves on the board of the Telluride Association, a nonprofit that runs transformative educational experiences rooted in critical thinking and democratic community. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Nathan Dyer is the Newsroom Support Engineer for the Freedom of the Press Foundation. His previous work includes providing customer support for a Linux-focused hardware vendor, as well as being an AP Computer Science instructor and managing a 1:1 technology deployment for a public school district. He is a proponent for free and open source software, and actively maintains multiple open source apps for the Linux desktop. He lives with his fiancée in Tennessee.

Maeve (she/they) is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She has previously held roles ranging from managing technology at a neuroscience lab to building out and maintaining infrastructure for a multi-billion-dollar political fundraising platform. In a former life, she was a developer on the Debian project. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, studying Mandarin, discovering new music, and getting trapped by her two cats every time she sits down. She is passionate about making technology more inclusive and has been an assistant instructor at many events aimed at bringing underrepresented groups into application development.

Ryan Rice is a Membership Coordinator for Freedom of the Press Foundation. Combining an academic background in political science with the practical education of social justice movement building, Ryan has worked previously in rights for the unhoused, foreclosure defense, and nuclear disarmament. They are thrilled to have found a way to help whistleblowers, journalists, and free press advocates with their current work.

Bevyn Howard (she/her) is the Grants Manager at Freedom of the Press Foundation where she prepares grant proposals and reports while helping keep donors informed on FPF’s major projects and programs. She has a background in persuasive rhetorical writing with a deep passion for social justice and intersectional advocacy. In her free time she enjoys running, cuddling with her cats and tending to her obnoxious collection of plants. She resides in Houston, Texas.

Sophie Hagen is the Operations Manager at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She has worked as a writer and editor in book and magazine publishing and in artist booking, legal services, and fundraising. She is passionate about protecting physical and informational privacy and resisting surveillance. She is from Brooklyn, New York.