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Glencora believes that communication should be private and secure by default and worries about surveillance-supported threats to the  First and Fourth Amendment.  They support activists and social movements in their digital security needs and initiated a research program whose mission is to understand the digital needs of activists, and ensure that everyone can communicate freely and safely, regardless of their identity.  This work has been supported by an NSF EAGER grant through the SaTC program.  They also created and teach an interdisciplinary course on communications security and social movements that is offered through the Difference, Power and Discrimination program of Oregon State University’s Baccalaureate Core and have published an open textbook to support this — Defend Dissent: Digital Suppression and Cryptographic Defense of Social Movements — ahora disponible en Español.  They are on the program committee for PETS 2022, PETS 2023 and USENIX Security 2022.  They were previously on the program committee of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) and USENIX’s Workshop on Advances in Security Education.

In the past, Glencora’s research focused on traditional network flow and design problems in planar graphs and other sparse graphs.  This work was funded by an NSF CAREER award and two collaborative NSF Algorithmic Foundations grants. They were an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Algorithms and the open access journal Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science.  They were on the program committees for ICALP 2018, STOC 2014, ESA 2014, SODA 2012 and SODA 2011.

Glencora has a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario (2002) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University (2008) and held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo.