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Added link to Kate Krauss nomination
Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.
Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZ2FB574JY Chaos Communications Congress], where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.
(However--she *has* a sense of humor!)
== Alison Macrina ==
