Welcome!
My name is Leah Namisa Rosenbloom and my pronouns are they/them.
I am an Assistant Professor and teacher of students at Rhode Island College (RIC/AFT Local 1819). My work centers abolition technology and collective privacy practices for grassroots organizing.
I have a PhD in cryptography from Brown University (advised by Anna Lysyanskaya and Seny Kamara) and postdoctoral research experience in human-centered computing (supervised by Michael Ann DeVito and Ada Lerner).
Previously I was a math teacher of amazing high school students at The Workshop School, and a technology intern with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology project at the ACLU.
I graudated from the TUteach Program at Temple University with a BS in Math and Computer Science with Teaching, and have an MS from Brown in Computer Science.
I am a Jewish technologist who supports the No Tech For Apartheid movement and a free Palestine. I oppose the genocidal technology of The Palestine Laboratory, just as I would have opposed IBM's participation in Jewish genocide.
Recent Highlights
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Abolition Technology Course, Spring 2026 [website][paper][talk]
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tigro: Trust Infrastructure for Grassroots Organizing, PETS 2026 [paper]
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Cryptography and Collective Power, Latincrypt 2025 [paper]
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Cryptography as Drag: Queer Empowerment Through Consent & Control Over External Perception, QiC 2025 [slides]
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Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop 2025 [info]
Contact
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Email: lrosenbloom@ric.edu*
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Signal: by request
*Please note that Rhode Island College is publicly owned and that the contents of your message to me are therefore subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Last Updated
14 November 2025
