Presented at
The Circle Of HOPE (2018),
July 21, 2018, 2 p.m.
(120 minutes)
Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense who disclosed a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks revealing human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will speak onstage with noted technologist Yan Zhu on a variety of topics - including the ramifications of government secrecy, the need for greater government transparency, her experiences being charged and court-martialed for violations of the Espionage Act, and serving seven years in military prison before receiving a commutation of her 35-year sentence by the President of the United States. An extended audience Q&A will follow.
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Yan Zhu
**Yan Zhu** (@bcrypt) is the chief security officer at Brave Software and was previously a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She has worked on numerous open source security and privacy projects, including Let's Encrypt, HTTPS Everywhere, SecureDrop, and Privacy Badger. She has also served as a board member of the Zcash Foundation, an elected member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, a CFP reviewer for DEF CON, and a board member of Noisebridge Hackerspace. She is a high school dropout and holds a B.S. in physics from MIT.
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