Harlo Holmes is the chief information security officer 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 Guardian Project. Harlo is also an adjunct professor at New York University.