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Advisory Council
Amira El-Sayed
Director of Global Programmes, Luminate
Amira leads Luminate’s global Participation & Dissent work, focused on making political power more inclusive and ensuring those who challenge power can do so safely and effectively. She previously managed the foundation’s global Civic Empowerment grants and investments. Before joining Luminate, Amira was the Director of Strategy and Programmes at a global social impact organisation, and worked […]
Ashnah Kalemera
Ashnah coordinates multi-country projects promoting the use of ICT in democratic processes and for citizen participation, including training for citizen journalists, mainstream media and government officials. She holds an MSc in Informatics with a major in Electronic Government (Örebro University, Sweden) and a BSc in Computer and Management Sciences (University of Warwick, United Kingdom), and […]
Bernard Tyers
Interaction Designer and User Researcher
Bernard is a user centred designer focusing on user research, and interaction design. He works on open source software and digital public services where privacy, security, identity, accessibility, and inclusion are important. He’s lead international user research, and designed services for vulnerable user groups. He’s contributed to numerous open source software projects, most recently GNU […]
Chad Hurley
Director, Office of Internet Freedom, Broadcasting Board of Governors
Chad joined the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ Office of Internet Freedom in 2018. As the Director, Chad is responsible for strategy development and the day-to-day operations. Chad has accumulated nearly 20 years experience utilizing his technology and security knowledge to advance the capabilities of pro-democracy journalists and human rights activists from around the globe. Prior to […]
Cheekay Cinco
Specialist in Information & Communication Technologies
Cheekay Cinco has been involved in the strategic use of technologies for activism since 1998. She works primarily with feminist movements and communities, specifically located in the Global South. She is a trainer, evaluator and facilitator. She is based in the Philippines. She was part of the team that organised and hosted the Women´s Electronic […]
David Huerta
Freedom of the Press Foundation
David Huerta is a senior digital security trainer at Freedom of the Press Foundation, where he trains journalists in privacy-enhancing technology to empower a free press. He’s taught hundreds of trainings across the world and has previously organized the digital security track at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference. He’s also spoken on the […]
Dr. Siân Brooke
Leverhulme Fellow in Computational Social Science
Dr Siân Brooke (she/her) is a Researcher in the Department of Methodology (previously an LSE Fellow in Computational Social Science) and Research Associate at the University Oxford (Oxford Internet Institute). Siân has been awarded the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, to investigate sexism on collaborative computing platforms. He project will combine cultural and computational methods to […]
Elizabeth Eagen
Deputy Director, The Citizens and Technology Lab
Elizabeth Eagen is Deputy Director of the Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell University, which works with communities to study the effects of technology on society and test ideas for changing digital spaces to better serve the public interest, so that digital power is guided by evidence and accountable to the public. Previously, she established […]
Ellery Roberts Biddle
Journalist and Researcher
Ellery is a journalist who specializes in technology and the ways it affects people’s lives and rights. She has worked as the managing editor at Coda Story, the advocacy director at Global Voices, and as the director of projects at Ranking Digital Rights. From 2014-2017, Ellery was a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for […]
Eric Wustrow
Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado
Eric Wustrow is an Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work focuses on creating and deploying new censorship circumvention techniques and tools, including Refraction Networking schemes like Tapdance and Conjure, used by millions of censored users around the world. He has also published on emerging network […]
Felicia Anthonio
Access Now
Felicia Anthonio is #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now, a global campaign of over 300 organizations that fights against internet shutdowns. She has authored and co-authored several publications on internet shutdowns featured on Access Now, Yale University, CIPESA and Bloomsbury Collections websites. Felicia hosted The Kill Switch podcast and was featured on The Shutdown documentary by BBC World Service. Felicia is an Advisory Council member […]
Fieke Jansen
Postdoc Researcher at the Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University
Postdoc Researcher at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University Fieke Jansen is a postdoc researcher at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, where she is researching the relationship between datafication on labour in the Netherlands. In her PhD she looked at the institutional and societal implications of data-driven risk scoring and biometric recognition […]
Fiona Krakenbürger
Co-Founder, Sovereign Tech Fund
Fiona is Co-Founder of the Sovereign Tech Fund, an initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, to support Open Source Infrastructure in the Public Interest. Previously, Fiona worked as a Senior Program Manager at Open Technology Fund and helped bootstrap the Prototype Fund in Germany. Fiona provides strategic counsel […]
Gabrielle Lim
Doctoral Fellow at the Citizen Lab
Gabrielle Lim is a Doctoral Fellow at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. Her primary areas of research are information technology and security, with a focus on media manipulation, censorship, emerging technology, and civil society. Previously, she was a researcher with the Technology and Social Change […]
Hans-Christoph Steiner
Researcher and Hacker, Guardian Project
Hans-Christoph Steiner is a researcher and hacker with Guardian Project. He works to make private-by-design easy for all to achieve. For the past 15 years, he worked to make software as private as possible yet usable by everyone, as well as building ethical distribution systems that are resilient to unjust censorship. This work is available […]
Jillian C. York
Director for International Freedom of Expression, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines the impact of technology on our societal and cultural values. Based in Berlin, she is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a fellow at the Center for Internet & Human Rights at the European University Viadrina, and a […]
Joanna Szymańska
Senior Programme Officer, ARTICLE 19
Joanna is a Senior Programme Officer at ARTICLE 19 Europe and Central Asia, focusing on freedom of expression issues across the Eurasia region – including media freedom, civic space, and digital rights. She is an experienced project coordinator, trainer, and researcher, having contributed to several publications on content moderation, digital authoritarianism, and hate speech. Prior […]
Ksenia Ermoshina
Center for Internet and Society & The Citizen Lab
Ksenia is senior researcher at the Center for Internet and Society of the CNRS and The Citizen Lab (University of Toronto). She is also involved as a UX researcher with eQualit.ie and Merlinux, conducting user-research, community work, and field testing for decentralized free software projects such as Delta Chat, Ceno browser ,and Ouisync. Ksenia holds […]
Laura Schwartz-Henderson
Founder and Principal of Curious Shapes
Laura Schwartz-Henderson is the founder and principal of Curious Shapes, a research and advocacy consultancy focused on internet policy, digital rights, and emerging tech issues. Based in Washington DC, Laura works with a range of civil society groups, philanthropies, and tech companies across the globe to conduct research, design policy frameworks, and develop communications campaigns […]
Mallory Knodel
CTO, Center for Democracy and Technology
Mallory is a writer, community organiser and researcher. She is the Chief Technology Officer at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington DC and she chairs the Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force. She is a public interest technologist who advises organisations, companies and governments on issues related […]
Mehwish Ansari
Ford Foundation
Mehwish is a program officer at the Ford Foundation's Technology & Society Program.
Niels ten Oever
Postdoctoral Communications Infrastructure Researcher, University of Amsterdam
Niels is a postdoctoral communications infrastructure researcher at the University of Amsterdam with a particular interest in the relations between networks, power, and human rights.
Reem Almasri
Crítica
Reem Almasri is currently a member of the Crítica team, the managing partner of the Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience, where she oversees external and internal communications. Before joining Crítica, Reem worked as a journalist for over ten years at the Jordan-based magazine, 7iber, where she is currently a partner. During her tenure at 7iber, Reem […]
Rodrigue Hajjar
VP of Engineering at Cohere
Rodrigue Hajjar is the VP of Engineering at Cohere, managing the productionization of LLMs. As a founding engineer at TunnelBear, he’s also led censorship circumvention efforts. He’s developed award winning mobile applications, and has founded a few startups, including Kwixer (a content recommendation engine). Rod holds a Masters in Computer Science, and is based in […]
Roya Ensafi
Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan
Roya Ensafi is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, where her research focuses on computer networking, security, and privacy. She designs scalable techniques and systems to protect users’ Internet connections from disruption and surveillance. Roya is best known for her work in the area of Internet censorship, where […]
Roya Pakzad
Founder and Director of Taraaz
Roya Pakzad is the founder and director of Taraaz, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of technology and human rights. She is also the 2023-24 Practitioner Data and Democracy Fellow at the Karsh Institute of Democracy and the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia and an affiliated scholar at UC Berkeley’s […]
Sandra Ordóñez
Head of Team CommUNITY
Sandra is a recognized leader specializing in community building, strategic planning, DEI and innovation. One of the first Latinas to occupy a leadership position in the field of public interest technology, she served as the first Director of Communications for Wikipedia, and has served on the board of various open source and social justice organizations […]
Sanne Stevens
Co-director of the Justice, Equity and Technology Table at the London School of Economics
Sanne is the co-director of the Justice, Equity and Technology Table, which is a collaborative network building effort to address the impact of data-driven policing on racialized communities in Europe.
Sarah Kiden
Public Interest Technologist & Design Researcher
Sarah Kiden is a Public Interest Technologist and Design Researcher working at the intersection of technology and society. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her current research interests include the exploration of policy frameworks for emerging technologies, citizen-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, and understanding how Internet of Things (IoT) ideas […]
Shivan Kaul Sahib
Privacy Engineer at Brave Software
Shivan is a privacy engineer currently working at Brave Software on shipping novel research to millions of people. He co-chairs groups in the IETF focused around privacy-enhancing network protocols and research, and previously worked on DNS traffic encryption and consent tooling at Salesforce. He has a keen interest in public interest technology and frequently engages […]
Sofia Celi
Cryptography Researcher, Brave
Sofía Celi is a cryptography researcher at Brave. She also holds variousleadership positions at IETF, IRTF, and the W3C. She is interested inhelping diverse communities, and creating post-quantum andprivacy preserving algorithms.
Stefania Milan
Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam
Stefania is a researcher, writer and digital rights activist whose work explores the intersection of technology, governance and activism. She is particularly interested in infrastructures, and the possibilities of self organization, emancipation, and autonomy they open up. She works out of the University of Amsterdam, where she is Associate Professor of New Media at the […]
Tom Ritter
Security Engineer at Mozilla
Tom Ritter is a distinguished security engineer and recovering consultant now at Mozilla, working on anti-exploitation, Tor, and other new and evolving security features. Previously, he did all manner of security consulting at NCC Group and iSEC Partners, including managing the Cryptography Services practice and pioneering the production of fully-public audit reports. While consulting, Tom […]
Wojtek Bogusz
Head of Digital Protection at Front Line Defenders
Wojtek Bogusz is a digital information and communication protection trainer. He works with human rights defenders and activists at risk around the world in repressive environments. He is Head of Digital Protection with Front Line Defenders, a Dublin-based international foundation for the protection of human rights defenders.