Dyan Mae Cortez is a Program Manager at Open Technology Fund (OTF), where she works with the Program team to enable the research, development, and implementation of internet freedom technologies in authoritarian contexts. She has a special interest incountering surveillance and censorship practices in Southeast Asia & the Pacific.
Dyan also supports OTF’s Rapid Response Fund and UXD Lab. The Rapid Response Fund aims to resolve threats in a timely manner for high-risk individuals, communities, and organizations facing digital attacks and emergencies. The UXD Lab improves the user-experience design of internet freedom tools, helping projects better understand the needs of their user communities to make their tools usable and accessible to all.
She first joined OTF as a Program Specialist in November 2021.
