June 12, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm PDT
June 12, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm PDT
Online

This Pride season, our panel explores how emerging laws and platform policies affect the digital privacy and free expression rights of the LGBT+ community, and how this echoes the experience of marginalized people across the world.

Join our panel featuring EFF Senior Staff Technologist Daly Barnett, EFF Legislative Activist Rindala Alajaji, Chosen Family Law Center Senior Legal Director Andy Izenson, and Woodhull Freedom Foundation Chief Operations Officer Mandy Salley while they discuss what is happening and what should change to protect digital freedom. 

EFFecting Change Livestream Series:
Pride in Digital Freedom
Thursday, June 12th
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific - Check Local Time
This event is LIVE and FREE!

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Accessibility

This event will be live-captioned and recorded. EFF is committed to improving accessibility for our events. If you have any accessibility questions regarding the event, please contact events@eff.org.

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Recording

We hope you and your friends can join us live! If you can't make it, we’ll post the recording afterward on YouTube and the Internet Archive!

About the Speakers

Daly Barnett
Daly Barnett is a senior staff technologist at the EFF. She is also an artist, activist, and community organizer. Before arriving to EFF, she was the founder of t4tech, a trans forward tech collective based in NYC. She is also a part of Hacking Hustling, a sex workers advocacy organization, where her title is Witch.

Rindala Alajaji
Rindala "Rin" Alajaji (she/her) is a Legislative Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, primarily focused on state legislation impacting digital privacy, reproductive rights, and free expression. Prior to joining EFF, Rin worked to advance and defend civil rights and education justice policies in state legislatures as GLSEN's State and Local Policy Manager and Equality Florida's Public Policy Manager. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Human Rights Studies M.A. program, and holds a B.S. in Applied Psychology and Global Public Health from New York University.

Andy Izenson
Andy Izenson situates most of their research, work, and art at the intersection of trans embodiment and spiritual insurrection. They have taught for many years on embodied negotiation, transformative community building and conflict resolution, and the future of family law, including at Yale Divinity School, Columbia University, the New York State Bar Association, and the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit. On the clock, Andy can be found providing legal support to non-traditional families and transgender community members at the Chosen Family Law Center and fighting for prison abolition with the National Lawyers Guild. Andy is a board member of their Renewal synagogue, Kol Hai, and the immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild NYC; they have received the LGBT Bar Association’s Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 award and the Community Partner award from Our Family Coalition, and been previously published in the Advocate, the Queer Magic Anthology, 24 Magazine, Sibling Rivalry Press, the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, and the After Marriage Equality collection. Andy lives on a trans commune on unceded Lenape/Esopus land in the Hudson Valley.

Mandy Salley
Mandy Salley brings her passion for social justice and love for humanity to the Woodhull Freedom Foundation as its Chief Operations Officer (COO). Since 2014, when she first served as a volunteer coordinator, Mandy has played an integral role at Woodhull, now managing its day-to-day operations and community efforts – from its Human Rights Commissions to the monthly Censorship of Sexual Freedom Series. Mandy is also a licensed Social Worker and has experience in inpatient hospitals, geriatric day programs, and rape crises. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.