Ada Nakama

Ada is a senior security engineer for the infrastructure team at Freedom of the Press Foundation, where her generalist approach is a good fit for the wide scope of work, ranging from security-minded system administration to development, security, and operations, and organizational security improvements like developing an incident response program. Previous work has involved anomaly detection and portscanning /0. She’s spoken in multiple venues about how experiences rooted in marginalization have informed and improved her security practice. Her background beyond security includes educational psychology, machine learning, and narrative design. Outside work, she endeavors to preserve and promote her Indigenous heritage language and culture. ゆたさるぐとぅうにげーさびら.