2005 Interns
Jeff Casimir
Intern
Projects: Fair Play High School Curriculum Project
Interests: Education, Cycling, Social Justice
Academic Background: Undergrad at Arizona State in Economics and Computer Systems Engineering
Chris Conley
Legal Intern
Projects: Parental liability, Chilling Effects, privacy, "DirectTV case"
Interests: hiking/camping, cooking, swing/salsa dancing, baseball
Academic Background: BSE in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science, JD expected 2007
Michael Davis-Wilson
Intern
Projects: Chilling Effects, anniversary projects, general research and writing assistance
Interests: Writing, games, cooking.
Academic Background: BA, Yale University (1998).
Jessica Dickinson Goodman
Intern
Projects: EFF 15th year anniversary, membership and fundraising
Interests: Singing, Wrestling, Reading, Karate, Weaving
Academic Background: Harker High school (San Jose)
Jen King
Legal Intern
Projects: Patent busting, RFID, online privacy
Interests: hiking, biking, The Simpsons, deviance
Academic Background: Master's Student, SIMS, UC Berkeley. BA, Sociology & Political Science, UC Irvine.
Robert Lee
Intern
Projects: Researching information on hidden machine identification codes written on color laser printer documents.
Interests: checking out Homestar Runner's website, playing squash, eating Korean food
Academic Background: B.S., computer science (Yale University)
Joseph Lu
Intern
Projects: Fundraising/grantseeking, EFF 15th anniversary
Interests: Traveling, art, tennis, kendo, and preparing myself to be a law geek/slave
Academic Background: Political Science major and Middle East Studies minor at Columbia University
Mark Melahn
Technical Intern
Projects: Testing and documenting the shred secure deletion utility on journaling filesystems, Tor miscellany
Interests: Music from Handel to Hendrix, legal philosophy, movies and television shows that I can commit to memory and regurgitate at regular intervals, the Supreme Court of the United States, struggling with latent video game addiction day by day
Academic Background: Graduated in May 2005 from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in computer science
Talitha Nabbali
Legal Intern
Projects: Good Faith Defenses, Data Retention in the EU
Interests: Travelling, Reading and Hiking
Academic Background: Entering 3rd year of LL.B at the University of Ottawa. Hons B.Sc Computer Science with Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.
Jacob Pruess
Intern
Projects: Chilling Effects, website privacy policies, free speech and censorship Interests: EFF issues aside... information technology, breaking computers and (maybe) fixing them again, the politics of platform wars (and sometimes their substance until they become religious), consuming grotesque quantities of anime, refining my relationship with Berkeley into the perfect embodiment of "love/hate" [read: jacob needs to get out more] Academic Background: working on a B.A. in Math and Political Science at UC Berkeley, expected grad 12/05
Chris Riley
Intern
Projects: Blizzard, Tor
Interests: Fiction (classics, mystery, dystopian, existentialist), nonfiction (science, some politics, some philosophy), movies (the darker the better), music (classical, some jazz, some rock)
Academic Background: B.S., Wheeling Jesuit University; Ph.D., Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University; currently a J.D. student at Yale Law School
Judit Rius Sanjuan
Legal Intern
Projects: Intellectual property, WIPO, Development related issues, Privacy
Interests: Traveling, learning, sleeping, eating, dancing, talking and dreaming.
Academic Background: LL.M. in Law, Science and Technology at Stanford Law School (2005); Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) Law degree; and Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) & Geneva University (Switzerland) Masters in International Relations.
Aj Singh
Intern
Projects: Generating a happy environment by assisting with membership and fundraising duties
Interests: Cars, sports, women's suffrage movement
Academic Background: Rising senior at Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA
Derek Slater
Intern
Projects: Beating into shape eff.org/IP; Deeplinks; reverse engineering
Interests: copyfighting; electronic music; all things sports; enjoying San Francisco
Academic Background: Senior at Harvard
Elizabeth Stark
Legal Intern
Projects: Happy Birthday, RIAA Lawsuit Reports, E-voting
Interests: Traveling to faraway places (Brazil is next), learning languages, electronic music, film, digital media, urban wastelands, critical theories, free culture, I've finally given in to the blogging thing, irony in all of its forms
Academic Background: Brown University, Harvard Law School
Adam Thomas
Legal Intern
Projects: Municipal WiFi Alert projects, Blogger Rights in the 50 States, SLAPP ISP subpoena research
Interests: Scrabble, Rowing, Swing Dancing, Travel/Food
Academic Background: Last Place in 2nd grade Speling Bee; Bates College: East Asian Studies/Econ (Debate/Rowing); U of Pittsburgh Law School (maybe JB/MBA with Tepper Business)