{"id":35,"date":"2009-09-04T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:12:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1330\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_2089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-image-1330 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1080\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_2089-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1080\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_2089-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1080\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_2089-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1080\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_2089-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1080\/files\/2018\/07\/IMG_2089-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They also believe that traveling by bike is the best thing ever.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>[this webpage is no longer being maintained]<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Glencora believes that communication should be private and secure by default and worries about surveillance-supported threats to the\u00a0 First and Fourth Amendment.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/pronoun.is\/they\/them\/their\/theirs\/themself\">They<\/a> 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.\u00a0 This work has been supported by an <a href=\"http:\/\/terra.oregonstate.edu\/2019\/10\/protecting-protest-with-privacy-for-social-movements\/\">NSF EAGER grant through the SaTC program<\/a>.\u00a0 They also created and teach an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.engr.oregonstate.edu\/~glencora\/cs175\/index.php\/CourseDescription\">interdisciplinary course<\/a> on communications security and social movements that is offered through the <a href=\"http:\/\/dpd.oregonstate.edu\/\">Difference, Power and Discrimination program<\/a> of Oregon State University&#8217;s Baccalaureate Core and have published an open textbook to support this &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/open.oregonstate.education\/defenddissent\/\">Defend Dissent: Digital Suppression and Cryptographic Defense of Social Movements<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/open.oregonstate.education\/defensadeldisenso\/\"><em>ahora disponible en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 They are on the program committee for PETS 2022, PETS 2023 and USENIX Security 2022.\u00a0 They were previously on the program committee of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*) and USENIX&#8217;s Workshop on Advances in Security Education.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Glencora&#8217;s research focused on traditional network flow and design problems in planar graphs and other sparse graphs.\u00a0 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 &amp; Theoretical Computer Science.\u00a0 They were on the program committees for ICALP 2018, STOC 2014, ESA 2014, SODA 2012 and SODA 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Glencora has a B.Sc. in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apmaths.uwo.ca\">Applied Mathematics<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/\">University of Western Ontario<\/a> (2002) and a Ph.D. in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.brown.edu\/\">Computer Science<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/\">Brown University<\/a> (2008) and held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship in the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/combinatorics-and-optimization\/about\">Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[this webpage is no longer being maintained] Glencora believes that communication should be private and secure by default and worries about surveillance-supported threats to the\u00a0 First and Fourth Amendment.\u00a0 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}