Welcome!
My name is Leah Namisa Rosenbloom and my pronouns are they/them.
I am currently a postdoctoral research associate and teacher at Northeastern University studying collective privacy and security practices for grassroots organizing alongside Ada Lerner and Michael Ann DeVito. I have a PhD in cryptography from Brown University, where my advisors were Anna Lysyanskaya and Seny Kamara.
I am a Jewish technologist who supports the No Tech For Apartheid Movement and a free Palestine. For an in-depth look at the modern intersection of technology and apartheid (in Palestine and beyond), see Amnesty International's report Automated Apartheid and Anthony Loewenstein's book The Palestine Laboratory.
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.
Recent Highlights
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Cryptography and Collective Power [preprint]
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Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop 2024 [info]
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Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society, CCC [report]
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Sometimes You Can't Distribute Random-Oracle-Based Proofs, CRYPTO 2024 [paper]
