Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex transdiciplinary systems and stories fail and redesigning them to fail better.  Saitta runs Systems Structure Ltd., a boutique security architecture and strategy consultancy that works with firms seeking to build or grow security practices or specific high-exposure products, advises news organizations and NGOs targeted by nation states, and builds immersive transmedia participation events.  She is also a member of the advisory boards of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the IFTF Governance Futures Lab, and the Calyx Institute, and works on the Trike security ecosystem modeling project and the Briar/Bramble distributed messaging system.

Saitta is a regular speaker at conferences, universities, and other institutions including the O'Reilly Velocity, KiwiCon, CCC Congress, Hack in The Box, Transmediale, ToorCon, Knutepunk, HOPE, Arse Electronika, Harvard, Yale, and the London ICA. She lives in the private performance venue The Attic in Helsinki, Finland, and travels regularly through Berlin, London, and NYC. She can be found at https://dymaxion.org and on Twitter as @Dymaxion.