 (she/her) is a public affairs and communications expert specializing in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and privacy. She previously worked on cybersecurity policy for D.C. government relations firms and peace and security policy for the United Nations. Lama is also an active member of the technology policy and socially responsible technology space, as she has contributed to university research on the intersections of policy, law, and technology, published podcasts on creating an inclusive Internet, and won second place in the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s first Policy Hackathon advocating for equitable solutions to bring broadband access to the incarcerated community. Lama is a volunteer at All Tech Is Human, where she has co-authored reports on AI and human rights, building a better tech future, and technology and democracy. She is also a current Fellow and the New York Regional Chair of the Internet Law & Policy Foundry, where she manages the organization's social media accounts, designs the graphics, and is a frequent host and moderator on The Foundry’s podcast episodes and webinars. As an emerging voice in the technology policy community, Lama has spoken at a variety of conferences and panels, including the 2023 IAPP Global Privacy Summit, where she highlighted the privacy issues unique to the youth generation. Lama has also facilitated a security training on AI and currently coaches students about starting a career in public interest technology and technology policy.

Lama Mohammed

 (she/her) is an international lawyer from Armenia, currently working on issues at the intersection of law and technology as a Senior Case and Policy Officer at the Oversight Board. Her expertise and experience focus on issues related to global free expression online, intermediary liability, and privacy and data protection. Meri has prior extensive experience in International human rights litigation and research. She served as a consultant for UNDP and the Council of Europe. She is an active member of various Internet Governance communities, such as the IGF, EuroDIG, and SEEDIG. She is a former Steering Committee Member of Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, and the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles. Meri worked on technology and human rights issues in the U.S. and globally as a Legal Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation. She also conducted research and writing as a Special Publications Lead at the Content Policy and Society Lab (CPSL) at Stanford University and currently is a cohort leader for ‘Ethics, Technology and Public Policy for Practitioners’ course at Stanford University.

Meri Baghdasaryan

 (she/her) is a J.D. Candidate at USC Gould School of Law, concentrating her studies and practice on cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, and trust and safety. With her background in communication, international studies, and technology management, she endeavors to build bridges between various communities to solve interdisciplinary problems in technology. Throughout law school, she has interned at SentinelOne, the Future of Privacy Forum, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Goodwin Procter, and VMCA Advogados (in São Paulo, Brazil). Formerly interning (and later consulting) at the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union, she has recently returned to the internet governance space as an ICANN Fellow for ICANN76 in Cancún, Mexico, and a member of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group. She has spoken on her unique view of interdisciplinary digital rights issues at several international conferences, including Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit, the California Lawyers Association’s annual Privacy Summit, and the American Bar Association’s inaugural Consumer Protection and Data Privacy Conference. She currently serves as the Vice-President and West Coast Regional Chair of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, where she is additionally a Senior Fellow and the host/executive producer of the Tech Policy Grind podcast.

Reema Moussa

Charles Coon is the Senior Communications Manager at DAI and supports the Critical Infrastructure Digitalization and Resilience (CIDR) program, a USAID program to promote cybersecurity in the Western Balkans, Black Sea region, and South Caucasus. The CIDR team works with governments, critical infrastructure operators, and their partners to provide assistance to partner nations in cybersecurity governance, cybersecurity assessment, cyber workforce development, and information sharing. Previously, Charles worked for nearly 30 years as a newspaper reporter, in corporate communications, and as an instructor of public affairs and communications strategy at the Defense Information School (DINFOS).

Charles Coon

Alexander Riabov is a Senior Communications Advisor on DAI’s Digital Frontiers, covering cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), ICT policy, and emerging tech topics. He also serves as DAI’s lead technical writer for Digital Frontiers activities under the Digital Connectivity and Cybersecurity Partnership (DCCP). In addition, Alexander supported numerous technology initiatives including USAID’s Equitable AI Challenge and Community of Practice (CoP), USAID’s Digital Financial Services (DFS) programming guide, and USAID’s digital development country knowledge portal. Prior to joining DAI, Alexander worked as the Communications Manager for the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing solutions to critical cyber and security challenges, the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), and the International Finance Corporation – World Bank Group. Alex holds a B.A. in International Studies from American University which includes direct enrollment at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Alexander Riabov

Laboni Bayen is a researcher for the Tech Transparency Project, a research initiative of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability that explores the influence of big technology companies on legislation, education, and society. She has a BS in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a background in computer science and data science.

Laboni Bayen

Kristophina is a researcher and feminist who is interested in the topics of participatory governance and a sustainable approach to the development and deployment of technology in Africa. She is currently a Senior Tech Policy Fellow at the Mozilla foundation where her project is critically looking at the participatory governance frameworks applied in the conservation sector with the intent of applying them to the governance of AI and technology. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from the Namibia University of Science and Technology & a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences focusing on Data and Society.

Kristophina Shilongo

Jordi Calvet-Bademunt is a Research Fellow at the Future of Free Speech Project and a Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on freedom of expression in the digital space. Jordi has almost a decade of experience as a policy analyst at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and as an associate in leading European law firms. He has also been a fellow at the Internet Society. Jordi holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), a Master of Laws from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and two Bachelor of Laws and Business Administration from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).

Jordi Calvet-Bademunt

Corinne Worthington is the Research Manager at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.). Corinne recently graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree in Human Rights Studies with a focus on the policy, practices, and deployment of surveillance technology as mechanisms for discriminatory social control. Her master’s thesis investigated how the NYPD’s surveillance system targets Black communities under the guise of terrorism prevention. Previously, Corinne held positions in the Curatorial Department and Director’s Office of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She received her B.A. in Global Liberal Studies and Art History from New York University in 2019.

Corinne Worthington

Aaron Greenberg is a Research Intern at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and a graduate student in the bioethics program at Harvard Medical School. He has a background in software engineering, having worked as an engineer and manager at the Securities & Exchange Commission and DigitalOcean. Exposure to the tech industry spurred his strong interest in the ethics of technology. In his program, he studies the societal impact of technology and how it can be used to support—or erode—civil and human rights. Outside of work, he tries to stay engaged in his community, and has volunteered with NYC organizations like Code Nation and NYC Mesh.

Aaron Greenberg

Sabhanaz Rashid Diya is the founding Board Director at Tech Global Institute, where she works on reducing equity gaps in platform and AI policies for the Global Majority. Previously, she spent over a decade working globally with governments and tech companies.

Sabhanaz Rashid Diya

Dave Willner is a Non-Resident Fellow in the the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Willner started his career at Facebook helping users reset their passwords in 2008. He went on to join the company’s original team of moderators, write Facebook’s first systematic content policies, and build the team that maintains those rules to this day. After leaving Facebook in 2013, he consulted for several start ups before joining Airbnb in 2015 to build the Community Policy team. While there he also took on responsibility for Quality and Training for the Trust team. After leaving Airbnb in 2021, he began working with OpenAI, first as a consultant and then as the company's first Head of Trust and Safety.

Dave Willner

Kelly Adkins is a business and finance reporter for the Medill News Service on Capitol Hill. She covers topics like technology and money, and how it intersects with government policy at the national level. She is pursuing a masters of science in journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Kelly Adkins

Haaris Mateen is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business. His research focuses on the economics of climate change and on media economics. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University.

Haaris Mateen

Hinako Sugiyama is an international human rights lawyer and a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where she supervises the work of the International Justice Clinic. Hinako analyzes how states and companies’ conduct impacts people’s lives and ideas, particularly those placed under power, and supports them in resisting surveillance and expressing themselves more. Her tools include multidisciplinary research, litigation, and policy advocacy, as well as coalition building. Currently, she is working on issues such as targeted surveillance of journalists and human rights defenders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining UC Irvine, Hinako served as a Columbia Global Public Service Fellow at Access Now and a legal intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Previously, she worked at an international law firm in Tokyo, leading cross-border investigations and remediation of multinational companies’ misconduct, such as corruption and fraud in Vietnam, and improving corporate compliance programs. Hinako earned her B.A. from Keio University in Tokyo, J.D. at Hitotsubashi Law School in Tokyo, and LL.M. at Columbia Law School in New York. She is a qualified lawyer in Japan and the US.

Hinako Sugiyama

Cedric is the Government Affairs Policy Advocate at Public Knowledge focusing on government affairs strategy, through advocacy, strategy development, and relationship building across the public interest field. Prior to joining Public Knowledge, Cedric was a legislative assistant and press secretary on Capitol Hill. Afterwards, he was a research analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy. In each position, he conducted policy analysis on federal legislation and maintained a broad range of external oversight while analyzing interagency, nongovernmental, and academia policy. Cedric received his M.A. in Public Policy from Howard University, M.A. in Liberal Studies from Delta State University, and B.A. in Political Science from Delta State University, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. Cedric is a native Mississippian who enjoys poetry, sports cars, and lofi music.

Cedric Watkins

Brian Jonathan Chen is the Policy Director at Data & Society. With a background in movement lawyering and legislative and regulatory advocacy, he has worked extensively on issues of economic justice, social equality, and peoples’ self-determination. Before joining D&S, Brian was a Senior Staff Attorney at the National Employment Law Project, where he led campaigns to build worker power in the face of employer technologies of control and discipline. In that role, he was recognized as a 

. Before that, he worked at the Policing Project, leading programs to promote democratic accountability in policing, including community oversight over the adoption and use of police technologies. Brian lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife and two dogs. He has appeared in news media including the New York Times, Slate, and WIRED. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from NYU School of Law.

Brian Chen

Roberta Braga is the Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas. Previously, she was Director of Counter-Disinformation Strategies at Equis Institute, Deputy Director for Programs and Outreach at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, and Manager for Global Content and Campaigns at the law firm Baker McKenzie. Roberta was named as one of 50 “Top Women in Cybersecurity Americas” by Latinas in Cyber and WOMCY in 2023. She was a Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy from 2021 to 2022, and a Cyber Fellow with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy in the same year. Roberta has been published in major media outlets and provides English-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-language commentary on political and social issues in the U.S. and Latin America, including for 

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, Axios, Brazil’s O Globo and Folha de S.Paulo,

 among others. Originally from Brazil, Roberta is a native Portuguese- and English-speaker, and fluent in Spanish.

Roberta Braga

Mark Dempsey is a Senior EU Advocacy Officer for global free speech organization ARTICLE 19. Prior to ARTICLE 19, Mark consulted for the European Commission on a project focused on data protection laws in non-EU countries. ARTICLE 19’S work in Brussels is driven by the goal of ensuring that the European information environment is free, fair, accessible, inclusive and decentralized.

Mark Dempsey

Patricia Gruver-Barr is the co-founder of the Tech Diplomacy Network, a Senior Fellow at New America’s Planetary Politics Initiative, a former Science Attaché for the British and Québec governments, and a tech policy consultant.

Patricia Gruver-Barr

Gordon LaForge is a Senior Policy Analyst with New America's Planetary Politics Initiative and a lecturer at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.

Gordon LaForge

Olalekan J. Akintande is a lecturer and researcher in the Computational Statistics Unit at the University of Ibadan. His research interests fall under algorithmic fairness, responsible AI, machine intelligence systems, statistical learning and ethics with application to sustainable development goals (SDGs) and other socially impactful research. O.J. has won many international awards, including two of his research works that were awarded most impactful research addressing SDGs by Elsevier. He was also awarded a Microsoft Ph.D. Research Fellowship in 2021 and has published in many International research outlets.

Olalekan J. Akintande

Joseph B. Keller is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative. His interests encompass inclusive global AI governance, climate change in geopolitics, and security concerns for emerging technologies. A neuroscientist turned policy researcher, Joseph is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University and has experience across academia, government, and civil society.

Joseph B. Keller

Jon Steinman is a former Bloomberg News reporter and cybersecurity startup co-founder who is now a communicator at Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to repairing and strengthening American democracy.

Jon Steinman

Christine Bannan is policy counsel at New America’s Open Technology Institute, focusing on platform accountability and privacy. Prior to joining OTI, she worked as consumer protection counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where she advocated for stronger privacy regulations before federal agencies and Congress. During law school, she interned at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Copyright Office, and the Wikimedia Foundation. She is an Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellow and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). Bannan earned her J.D. from Notre Dame Law School and B.A. in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross.

Christine Bannan

Michael Caster (he/him) is the Asia Digital Program Manager at 

, where he covers internet freedom and digital rights in Asia-Pacific. Before joining ARTICLE 19, Michael worked with Civil Rights Defenders, the Minority Rights Group, and the International Commission of Jurists. He is also the co-founder of Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organization focused on China. He has a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Masters in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands.

Michael Caster

Chris Zappone

Caroline Sinders is a critical designer and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital conversational spaces. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google's PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), the Mozilla Foundation, the Weizenbaum Institute Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Over the past four years, she’s been exploring dark patterns and how design affects policy and technology. Over the past six years, she’s been researching security and privacy within design, technology and through the lens of consumer safety and harm mitigation. Caroline is based in London and New Orleans.

Caroline Sinders

Dr. Courtney C. Radsch is a journalist, author and advocate working at the nexus of technology, media and policy. She is Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty and a fellow at the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy and the Center for Media Data and Society (CEU). She has led media assessment and advocacy missions to more than a dozen countries and worked as a journalist in the U.S. and Middle East. She holds a PhD in international relations and is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change. Her commentary and analysis has been 

 in leading outlets around the world and she serves on the board of 

Courtney Radsch

Cooper Raterink recently graduated from the MSCS program at Stanford University, where he studied human-centered artificial intelligence and analyzed misinformation with 

. He currently researches large language model safety and responsibility at 

Cooper Raterink

Adi Cohen is Memetica’s COO, building tools and methods to detect and tackle threats and harms online. Previously, he was an Intelligence Director at Storyful, and an OSINT journalist, researching forms of online extremism, disinformation and misinformation. He is the Co-Founder of Israel Public Policy Institute (IPPI), where he headed the Disinformation Program.

Adi Cohen

Douglas Carswell is the President & CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Previously a Member of Parliament in Britain for twelve years, Douglas was re-elected very time he stood. He also co-founded Vote Leave, the official campaign that won the Brexit referendum in Britain.

Douglas Carswell

Dr. Corinne Cath is an anthropologist of technology who studies the politics of Internet infrastructure. She is a recent graduate of the Oxford Internet Institute's PhD program (University of Oxford) and the Alan Turing Institute for data science. Previously, she worked on technology policy for human rights' organization ARTICLE 19 and the US House of Representatives.

Corinne Cath

Betsy Cooper is Founding Director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Previously, she was the founding Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and was a policy and legal counselor at the Department of Homeland Security. Betsy has a D.Phil from the University of Oxford and graduated from Yale Law School. In her spare time she likes to run experiments to see if her digital devices are listening to her.

Betsy Cooper

Alex C. Engler is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an Associate Fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies, where he examines the societal and policy implications of artificial intelligence. Previously faculty at the University of Chicago, Engler now teaches AI policy at Georgetown University, where he is an adjunct professor and affiliated scholar. Engler also has a decade of experience as a data scientist in policy organizations.

Alex Engler

Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

, and an Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University teaching technology product management and project management. She is a toxicologist and a technologist, passionate about teaching, and curious about the intersection of the future of work, learning, education, and AI/ML technology. She is a technology product manager with deep experience in building AI/ML products for Walmart Labs, and Cisco Systems. She developed the first quantitative risk-based simulation model for health risk assessment that was implemented by the U.S. Navy.

Anita Balaraman

, PhD, JD, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particular focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice. She co-founded the 

, which trains students and professionals to use social media and other digital content to strengthen human rights advocacy and accountability.

Alexa Koenig

Carmen Scurato is an attorney on the Free Press policy team working at the intersections of racial justice, technology and internet policy. Before joining Free Press, Carmen led the policy team at the National Hispanic Media Coalition, where she advocated for policies that advance the communication needs of the Latinx community.

Carmen Scurato

Aliya Bhatia is the communications officer at Ranking Digital Rights. Previously, she worked to increase access and reduce disinformation around the 2020 decennial census. She has an MPA from Columbia University and a BA in International Relations and Art History from the University of Toronto.

Aliya Bhatia

Benj Azose is an advocate for free prison communication and was part of the successful effort to make phone calls from California prisons free in 2022 (SB 1008). He attended the Aspen Institute Tech Executive Leadership Institute and served on the San Mateo County District Lines Advisory Commission to help re-draw San Mateo’s county lines after the 2020 census. Benj leads a team of analysts working on Google Chrome and has been at Google since 2008. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Harvey Mudd College.

Benj Azose

Afsaneh Rigot is a senior researcher at ARTICLE 19 and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, researching law, technology, human rights, and corporate responsibility. She’s the author of Digital Crime Scenes: The Role of Digital Evidence in the Persecution of LGBTQ People in Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia.

Afsaneh Rigot

Alexander C. Hart is a Vice President with 

, where he manages projects in policy and strategic planning, research, communications, public opinion, evaluation, and event facilitation. He leads the firm’s work with public interest foundations and nonprofits on technology policy issues.

Alexander Hart

 is a Syrian-American Responsible Innovation Consultant where she works on identifying and mitigating potential harms to society caused by emerging technologies. She is passionate about using data, policy and technology to bridge the gap between advocacy and policy change. She completed her Master of Science in Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University where she joined the Public Interest Technology Lab to work on Combating Bias in Government Data and Algorithms. Alisar is the founder of Analytics for Advocacy, an organization that equips advocacy groups with the policy, data and tech resources to effectively pass or change legislation.

Alisar Mustafa

Brian is a co-founder of The Delta Fund, a portfolio of impact investments and grants focused on supporting organizations working to improve equity. Brian and his wife Katie co-lead the fund’s focus on poverty alleviation, racial justice and economic justice by helping to scale organizations that improve outcomes for the poor and disadvantaged. He currently serves on the boards for Faith and Prejudice, Upaya Social Ventures and LifeHikes. Brian is a former Vice President at Facebook where he built high impact teams in strategy, operations, marketing and engineering. Prior to working with Facebook, Brian spent time as an entrepreneur, working at an agency and in product roles at Microsoft. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy with honors. Brian and Katie live in Bellevue, WA with their two children.

Brian Boland

Benjamin T. Decker is the Founder and CEO of Memetica, a digital investigations firm, and a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project. In addition to contributing to 

, Ben has produced research papers about online extremism and participated in the Christchurch Call Advisory Network. In 2019, Ben completed a research fellowship at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School writing about the network effect of far-right and extremist ideologies and their impact on global elections. At Storyful, he worked with industry-leading organizations to produce investigations and research projects, including 

Benjamin T. Decker

Angrej Singh is specializing in engagement journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is an intern at 

 and an audience producer at Hearst Connecticut Media. He previously worked at the 

 as a metro desk reporter to help cover breaking news, local politics, crime and human interest stories. Singh has assisted 

 with its Open Newsroom as a conversation facilitator and wrote obituaries for the Missing Them project. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College, where he pursued media studies with a concentration in journalism.

Angrej Singh

. She supports project teams through strategic planning, research, and project management, and her work focuses on technology and civil rights, with a particular emphasis on emerging technology.

Alex Kennedy

 at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation and human rights. She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south and has published extensively over the last decade on the media in Africa. More recently she has become focused on solutions to the problem of online disinformation, earning her Ph.D. on the topic from the University of Navarra. She is the editor of 

Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World

African Muckraking: 75 years of Investigative journalism from Africa 

Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms and Governments Control the News

Anya Schiffrin

UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity 

since 2018, helping fulfill its mission of anticipating and addressing tomorrow’s cybersecurity challenges in order to amplify the upside of the digital revolution. Her expertise in non-profit management, philanthropy, and industry informs CLTC’s success as a research and collaboration hub that helps decision-makers act with foresight, and expand who has access to and participates in cybersecurity. Ann was previously the Senior Director of Strategic Planning at the ClimateWorks Foundation and architect of its learning and evaluation systems, focused on advancing a more strategic, effective, and science-based response to global climate change. She is fluent in Spanish and received her BA from Rice University and her MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio Graduate School.

Ann Cleaveland

Alessia Zornetta is an S.J.D Candidate at the UCLA School of Law and a researcher for the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. Her interdisciplinary research focuses primarily on platform transparency, encryption, and content moderation.

Alessia Zornetta

Aden is an undergraduate University Scholar at Duke, where his research focuses on data brokers, national security, and privacy.

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