The Contributors

Cami Rincón is the Public Policy Programme’s Research Assistant in Public Sector AI Ethics and Governance. Cami has experience in community organising, participatory design, and emancipatory approaches to technology. Prior to joining The Alan Turing Institute, Cami researched risks and opportunities for LGBTQ+ people across branches of AI, with a focus on developing AI voice applications competent of trans people’s needs and experiences. Cami holds a BA in Human Development from The Evergreen State College, and an MSc in Management of Innovation from Goldsmiths, University of London, awarded with distinction.

Camila Nobrega is a Brazilian journalist and researcher working on social-environmental dynamics through Latin American feminist perspectives. She is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. Camila initiated a project called Beyond the Green, a laboratory of transmedia narratives and research on megaprojects that affect our lives, bodies and territories, such as dams. She has written for various international media outlets and in the last years was a fellow at the New New, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in Germany.

Currently located in Berlin (Germany) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
beyondthegreen.media (in construction)
Twitter: @camila__nobrega
Instagram: camila_nobrega

Carolina Reis is a lawyer and a digital policy analyst. She works at the intersection of democracy, human rights and technology, and strives for a bright, democratic and inclusive present in the digital age.

Currently located in: Erfurt, Germany
linkedin.com/in/carolina1reis

Chenai Chair is focuses on digital rights, research and implementation of new technologies from a feminist perspective. She is currently the special advisor on Africa Innovation Mradi at Mozilla Foundation and curator of My Data Rights - Africa. The latter is a repository for feminist thinking on AI, privacy and data protection.

Currently located in: Southern Africa
mydatarights.africa
@mydatarightsAF1 @chenaichair

Chinmayi is the founder of The Bachchao Project. She has a degree in computer science and has spent over a decade in technology for good and open technology communities. She has experience in building technology interventions, interdisciplinary research, designing training modules, growing and supporting open communities, designing and hosting events and fundraising. Her interests lie in open technologies, diversity and inclusion, community health, ethics and digital rights. Conducting interdisciplinary feminist research and creating spaces for dialogues is something she enjoys a lot.

Elena Silvestrini is one of the founders of Chayn Italia, a collaborative project fighting gender based violence through technology and capacity building. She leads facilitation and training at Platoniq Creatividad y Democracia, a Spain based organisation focused on participatory processes and technopolitics. Starting January 2022 she is member of the Design Justice Network global Steering Committee.

Currently located in: Rome, Italy
chaynitalia.org
@ElleSilvestrini @Chayn_Italia

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Superrr Lab. Elisa works at the intersection of technology, the arts and the humanities. Her research focuses on open digital infrastructure communities, digital civil society, and the social impact of emerging technologies. As a trained archaeologist, Elisa has worked in the fields of culture and computer science for more than a decade, both in and outside of academia. She worked with the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany on several Civic Tech projects and acted as the director of the Prototype Fund, the first public funding program for freelance software developers in Germany and aims at defining new means to foster technology in the public interest.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
superrr.net

Felix Reda is a copyright expert and founder of the strategic litigation project control © at German fundamental rights NGO Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte. From 2014 to 2019, Felix was a Member of the European Parliament. Felix is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation and an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
freiheitsrechte.org/copyright-law
@Senficon

Photo credit: Volker Conradus

Fieke Jansen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University. The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data. Jansen is interested in re-politicizing data and technology, by understanding its historical, social, cultural, and political context in Europe. Her research focuses on the impact of implementing data driven decision-making in European police forces on marginalized communities. Prior to starting her Ph.D., she worked at Tactical Tech, a Berlin based NGO, as the project lead for their Politics of Data program. There she developed educational materials, engaged in data literacy efforts, and engaged in research. Before Tactical Tech, Jansen worked at the Hivos, a Dutch development organization, on several programs at the intersection of human rights, internet, and freedom of expression.

Francesca Schmidt works on digital transformation processes from an intersectional feminist perspective. She studied German, German linguistics and society, history, and politics in South Asia, in Heidelberg and Berlin. She is a founding member and board member of Netzforma* e.V., a feminist digital policy association. In her work, she deals with questions of digital violence, surveillance and control, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and their socio-normative implications. Her book “Digital Policy. A feminist Introduction” was published by Barbara Budrich Verlag in 2020.

Helene is communication and media scientist and a co-founder of the think tank MOTIF Institute for Digital Culture. Her research focus lies on gender equity in tech contexts, platform work and the digital civil society. She is also an initiator of the project feministfutures.net.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
motif-institute.com
@HeleneSchwichow

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Superrr Lab. Julia has worked with international non-profits such as the Mozilla Foundation, Ashoka and the Open Knowledge Foundation. She has founded a number of initiatives and organizations with a focus on public interest tech and digital public infrastructure. Among them are the Prototype Fund, a public open source fund and the network Code for Germany. Julia Kloiber is a Fellow of the Mozilla Foundation, through her work she explores feminist digital futures. She has a background in design and media studies and is a speaker at international conferences. She is on the Advisory Board of Wikimedia Offene Wissenschaft, Digital Service 4 Germany and the Postcode Lottery Germany.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
superrr.net

Katherine is an editor and writer from London.

kwaters.co.uk
Twitter @kwaters

Katrin Fritsch researches and writes at the intersection of data and society. She is co-founder of the think tank MOTIF Institute for Digital Culture, and advocates for feminist futures. Her current interest lies in ecology, technology and climate justice.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
katrinfritsch.com
@KatrinFritsch

Photo credit: vakat.at

Laurence is the Racial and Social Justice Lead at the Digital Freedom Fund. She previously worked as a parliamentary assistant in the French National Assembly and works on the notion of race in law. She is also involved in several community-centered projects such as the Ẅ XOOL film festival she co-founded. She speaks French, English and German.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany

Maya Ober is a Jewish-diasporic designer, researcher, educator, activist, and more. Unsettled about the character of dominant design practices, in 2017, Maya founded depatriarchise design, looking at connecting feminist activism with design. Currently, Maya co-directs Futuress – a feminist platform for design politics – alongside her longtime friend and collaborator Nina Paim. As the Swiss National Science Foundation grantee, Maya works as a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern in Switzerland. Her research looks at feminist practices of design education and their intersections with activist movements. Located in Basel, Switzerland, from January 2022 Buenos Aires, Argentina
depatriarchisedesign.com, futuress.org
@futuress_org @maya__ober

Michelle Thorne is interested in climate justice and a fossil-free internet. As a Senior Program Officer at the Mozilla Foundation, Michelle leads a PhD program on Open Design of Trust Things (OpenDoTT) with Northumbria University and research initiatives in Mozilla’s Sustainability Program. Michelle publishes Branch, an online magazine written by and for people who dream about a sustainable internet and recipient of the Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity. She is a senior advisor to the Green Web Foundation and its Green Web Fellowship program and a co-organizer of Open Climate.

michellethorne.cc
@thornet

Nakeema Stefflbauer is a Brooklyn-born tech digitalisation expert, a business angel investor, and an advocate for ethical AI technology investment. Nakeema founded the FrauenLoop nonprofit in Berlin, and she is CEO of the US-based Techincolor venture and the Techincolor.eu network of tech professionals in Europe. She writes and speaks about the impact of digital technologies and artificial intelligence on marginalized groups and has given keynotes at EU Parliament hearings, among other events.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
nakeema.net
Twitter: @DocStefflbauer

Naomi Alexander Naidoo is Movement Builder at Chayn, a global non-profit creating online resources to support the healing of survivors of gender-based violence. An experienced community builder for systems change, Naomi leads Chayn’s work contributing to the global movement to end gender-based violence, including partnerships, network building and outreach.

Currently located in: Glasgow, UK
chayn.co
@nainaydoo @chaynHQ

Neema Githere is a guerrilla theorist and artist-in-blooming whose work explores love and indigeneity in a time of algorithmic debris. They have lectured and given workshops in universities and cultural institutions across North America and Europe including Autograph London, McGill, Toronto Queer Film Festival, New York University, SCI-Arc, The Royal Art Academy at the Hague, and HAW Hamburg.

Currently located in: New York, USA / #DigitalDiaspora
presentism2020.com
@take.back.theinternet

Nighat Dad is the founder and Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation, a Lahore-based non-profit working on issues of online free speech, privacy and digital safety. Nighat is currently serving as a member of the Facebook Oversight Board, working on content moderation on the platform, a serving Member of the Advisory Council on Human Rights and Technology at Microsoft, and part of the Trust and Safety Council in Twitter. She has been working for over a decade on issues of online content moderation, advocating with governments and tech companies to tackle online violence against women, minorities and other vulnerable groups. Nighat has received numerous prestigious awards including the Dutch Human Rights Tulip Award, and is a TED Fellow and a TIME’s Next Generation Leader.

Currently located in: Lahore, Pakistan
Twitter: @nighatdad

Project Manager and Design Researcher, Superrr Lab. Nushin Isabelle Yazdani is a transformation designer, artist and AI design researcher. She works at the intersection of machine learning, design justice and intersectional feminist practices, and writes about the systems of oppression of the present and the possibilities of just and free futures. At Superrr Lab, Nushin works as a project manager on creating feminist tech policies. With her collective dgtl fmnsm, she curates and organizes community events at the intersection of technology, art and design. Nushin is a lecturer at different universities, Landecker Democracy Fellow and a member of the Design Justice Network. She has been selected as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
superrr.net

Project Manager, Superrr Lab. Ouassima is passionate about all things related to social justice (movements) and creating/imagining just futures. She studied Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies in Berlin, Beirut, Amman, Marburg and researched in Sarajevo, Istanbul and Washington DC. She works on and engages in topics at the intersection of public policy, civil society engagement and youth politics: combining hereby areas of expertise in anti-racism, intersectionality and community building. Ouassima is an experienced moderator, facilitator and speaker on critical future studies, social justice, feminism, youth policy and anti-racism. She started her PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin in Political Science recently and focuses her research on empowerment strategies in (digital) brave spaces.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
superrr.net

R. Buse Çetin is an AI researcher, consultant and creative. Her work revolves around ethics, impact, and governance of AI systems and it is grounded in intersectional feminism. Buse is the co-founder of the AI research, advocacy and art platform Dreaming Beyond AI. Buse’s work aims to demystify the intersectional impact of AI technologies through research, policy advocacy and art.

Currently located in: Paris, France & Fethiye, Turkey
linktr.ee/busecett
Twitter: @busecett
Instagram: @aibae___

Safa Ghnaim is Associate Program Director at Tactical Tech. Before joining Tactical Tech, Ghnaim worked in adult education and editing. In 2018, Ghnaim edited and formatted her sister Wafa’s self-published book Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora, which tells their family’s story.

Sarah Devi Chander is interested in anti-racism, technology policy, and justice. She is a Senior Policy Adviser at European Digital Rights (EDRi) where she advocates on digital legislation and also aims to build resilient coalitions to contest discriminatory and oppressive technology practice. She is also co-founder of the Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, a poc-led coalition of activists and actors organising for racial justice.

Photo credit: Andreea Belu

Vanessa A. Opoku is a visual artist and lives and works in Berlin. She recently graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. With film and photography, animation, 3D scans and AI, she explores the borderlands of mixed reality. Traces that people leave behind become visible between the worlds of virtuality and physical reality. Beings and objects turn into mediating mentors who ask questions and tell stories of identity and self-empowerment.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
Instagram: @vaopoku

Victoria Kure-Wu is an expert for usability, user experience and human centered design. She builds concepts for digital interfaces. Also, she shares her knowledge in different anti-racist projects.

Currently located in: Berlin, Germany
kateboss5000.neocities.org