Elijah Sparrow

Elijah Sparrow is a longtime anti-surveillance activist and co-founder of riseup.net, a provider of secure communication alternatives for social movements. He is the lead programmer for the free software project Crabgrass, a social collaborative space for activist groups with a focus on security. Elijah is currently a PhD graduate student in Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His research areas include digital surveillance and the communication repertoires of social movements.