Welcome!
My name is Leah Namisa Rosenbloom and my pronouns are they/them.
I am currently a postdoctoral associate at Northeastern University studying abolition technology and collective privacy practices for grassroots organizing. My supervisors are Ada Lerner and Michael Ann DeVito.
In Spring 2026 I will be teaching Abolition Technology, a course focused on dismantling harmful technologies in society and replacing them with technologies that sustain human lives and livelihoods (link to course website coming soon).
I have a PhD in cryptography from Brown University, where my advisors were Anna Lysyanskaya and Seny Kamara.
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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Cryptography and Collective Power, Latincrypt 2025 [preprint]
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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]
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Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society, CCC Report 2024 [report]
Contact
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Email: l.rosenbloom@northeastern.edu
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Signal: by request
Last Updated
23 September 2025
