SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today that Erica Astrella, Head of Technology at Parkwood Entertainment and a leading voice for diversity and equity in tech, and University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Professor Tadayoshi “Yoshi” Kohno, a renowned security researcher and scholar, have joined EFF’s Board of Directors.
Astrella—a software engineer and tech executive who has worked at Google, Slack, Patreon, Microsoft, and Github, as well as serving as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Chief Technology Officer—has challenged inequity in hiring and compensation in the tech industry and is a prominent and influential advocate for women and people of color in Silicon Valley.
Kohno’s research focuses on identifying and fixing security flaws in existing and emerging technologies, and developing solutions to those risks before they endanger users and vulnerable populations. He has studied and raised awareness about security and privacy threats facing refugees in the U.S., activists in the Sudanese revolution, and medical device patients, among other understudied groups.
“Erica and Yoshi are fearless and awe-inspiring pioneers and advocates for the idea that the creation, understanding, and control of technological innovations must not be the domain of a select few, but rather must include and support a diversity of creators, tinkerers, coders, and users,” said EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. “They each bring a keen technical understanding, along with invaluable talent, a strong ethical grounding, and insights that will inform and help steer EFF’s mission to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all the people of the world.”
Astrella’s commitment to advancing equity and inclusion in tech first garnered headlines when she started an internal spreadsheet for Google employees to post their
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