Jillian York describes herself as “a writer, activist, Internet censorship combatant, and blogger.” She is based in Boston where she works at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on the OpenNet Initiative and Herdict, a crowdsourcing project to identify blocked websites.

She has a personal blog, writes frequently for the Huffington Post, and is an avid Twitter user. In this interview Jillian mentions her post from September, “The Cupcake Revolution.”