yawnbox is the co-founder and executive director for Emerald Onion and has a background in network administration, datacenter operations, and security engineering. He has been running Tor guard and middle relays since 2010 and exit relays since 2012. Being a victim of domestic violence at a young age, yawnbox has been acutely aware of physical location metadata since the age of 8 and has been researching, publishing, and training at-risk communities about threat modeling and operational security since becoming a part of the Tor community. In 2013, yawnbox got involved with political activism through the Seattle Privacy Coalition, and in 2015 performed an internship with the ACLU of Washington where he helped roll out the first instance of SecureDrop in a non-journalist organization. In 2016, yawnbox was brought on as Tor Project's first full time Grant Writer but left shortly after.