The Tor Project
Isabela F. has a diverse work experience in various organizations. isabela is currently serving as an Advisory Board member at The Calyx Institute since 2021. Prior to this, Isabela worked at The Tor Project, where they held the positions of Executive Director from November 2018 to the present and Project Manager from March 2015 to November 2018. At The Tor Project, they contributed to the execution of a crucial internet project and played an integral role in managing the community.
Before joining The Tor Project, Isabela was a Product Manager at Twitter from January 2011 to February 2015. isabela also worked at North by South as a Latin America Project Manager from March 2007 to December 2010. In this role, Isabela was responsible for managing remote engineering teams in Latin America and overseeing open-source initiatives.
Isabela also has experience in the public sector, having worked at Presidência da República as a Project Manager from June 2006 to December 2006. During their time there, they led the migration of the IT department to free software and implemented a collaborative development process for government engineers. Prior to this, Isabela served as a Technical Advisor at Ministério das Comunicações from February 2005 to May 2006. In this role, they played a vital role in selecting and implementing free software solutions for the National Digital Inclusion Program.
Throughout their career, Isabela F. has demonstrated their expertise in project management, execution of important internet projects, community management, and promoting free software solutions for technology inclusion. isabela has a strong background in managing remote teams and delivering results for clients and organizations they have worked with.
From 1998 to 2000, Isabela F. attended Universidade Alfenas, where they pursued a degree in Dentistry with a focus on prosthesis.
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The Tor Project
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information overpublic networks without compromising their privacy.Individuals use Tor to keep websites from tracking them and their family members, or to connect to news sites, instant messaging services, or the like when these are blocked by their local Internet providers. Tor's hidden services let users publish web sites and other services without needing to reveal the location of the site. Individuals also use Tor for socially sensitive communication: chat rooms and web forums for rape and abuse survivors, or people with illnesses.Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use Tor to allow their workers to connect to their home website while they're in a foreign country, without notifying everybody nearby that they're working with that organization.Groups such as Indymedia recommend Tor for safeguarding their members' online privacy and security. Activist groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recommend Tor as a mechanism for maintaining civil liberties online. Corporations use Tor as a safe way to conduct competitive analysis, and to protect sensitive procurement patterns from eavesdroppers. They also use it to replace traditional VPNs, which reveal the exact amount and timing of communication. Which locations have employees working late? Which locations have employees consulting job-hunting websites? Which research divisions are communicating with the company's patent lawyers?A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence gathering, and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle East recently. Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs, and for security during sting operations.The variety of people who use Tor is actually part of what makes it so secure. Tor hides you among the other users on the network, so the more populous and diverse the user base for Tor is, the more your anonymity will be protected.