Peter Micek

Global Policy & Legal Counsel, Access Now

Peter Micek leads the Access policy team's business and human rights work, advocating for a more rights-respecting telecom and tech sector. He also teaches a course at Columbia University on internet policy and governance. A lawyer by training, Peter completed a JD cum laude at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and in 2010 published "A Genealogy of Home Visits," critiquing surveillance of at-risk communities. As a law student, Peter defended independent journalists and engaged in Freedom of Information litigation at First Amendment Project. For five years, in his native San Francisco, Peter led youth and ethnic media development at New America Media, and was Web Editor at KALW's daily radio program Your Call. Peter studied political science and journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He is licensed by the state bars of California and New York, and has no cats.

Daniel Bedoya Arroyo

Incident Response Manager, Access Now

Houda Ben Mbarek

Moroccan Activist, Consultant for North Africa

Meghan Hellstern

Senior Projects Officer, Brookfields Institute

Nikki Gladstone

RightsCon Program and Community Manager

Carolyn Tackett

Global Campaign Strategist, Access Now

Jan Rydzak

Associate Director, Program, Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator

Milka Pietikainen

Director, Threefold Sustainability Advisory Services

Hassen Selmi

Security Incident Handler, Access Now

Naman Aggarwal

Asia Policy Associate, Access Now

Mouna Ben Garga

Innovation for Change, MENA, CIVICUS

Gustaf Björksten

Chief Technologist, Access Now

Javiera Moreno

Litigator, Datos Protegidos Chile

Verónica Arroyo

Latin America Policy Associate, Access Now

Pilar Saenz

Project Manager, Karisma Foundation

Emna Sayadi

MENA Campaigner, Access Now

Kemly Camacho

President, Sulá Batsú

Siddharth Rao

Public Interest Technologist, Aalto University, Finland

Kiggundu Mark

Technology Program Officer, DefendDefenders

Sze Ming

Digital Integrity Fellow, Open Tech Fund

Dima Samaro

Policy Researcher, Access Now

Ali Mnif

Country Manager, Silatech

Lorraine Chuen

Communications Lead, Powered by Data

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Executive Director, Equality Labs

Javier Pallero

Latin America Policy Lead, Access Now

Javier is Access' Policy Analyst for Latin America. Before joining Access, he worked for several years with digital rights organizations in Argentina, conducting policy analysis and promoting human rights activism on the net. He also was a teaching assistant at Cordoba's National University in Argentina on the subject of Internet Law and Economics while serving as a consultant and speaker in the local media. In addition to all of this, Javier is an amateur musician who is passionate about the internet and its power for social change.

Amos Toh

Legal Advisor, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Expression

Yamen Akkari

Lawyer at the Court of Appeal, Tunisia

Juliana Castro

Design Associate, Access Now

Brandi Collins-Dexter

Senior Campaign Director, Color of Change

Maria Clara Pinheiro

Director of Global Fellowship, Ashoka Foundation

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Associate Professor of Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lucie Krahulcova

EU Policy Analyst, Access Now

Fanny Hidvégi

European Policy Manager, Access Now

Mohamed Chennoufi

Tunis Security Shift Lead, Access Now

Gretchen Greene

Affiliate Researcher, MIT Media Lab

Bruce Schneier

Cryptographer, privacy specialist, and writer

Margaret L. Satterthwaite

Faculty Director, Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights

Julie Broome

Director, Ariadne – European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights

Julie Owono

Executive Director, Internet Sans Frontières

Julie Owono is a lawyer and the founder of start-up Feowl, a platform that produces data on energy in African cities. She is the head of the Africa Desk at Internet Sans Frontières (Internet Without Borders), where she focuses on Rights and Freedoms in the digital space, and develops the organization globally. She regularly writes columns for various publications, including Al Jazeera English and Quartz, on issues related to politics, law and innovation in the Gulf of Guinea. She often appears as a Gulf of Guinea expert on International TV channels (France 24 English, BBC World, Russia Today, Huff Post Live, etc).

Japleen Prasicha

Founder & Editor-In-Chief of Feminism In India

Japleen Prasicha is the Founder & Editor-In-Chief of Feminism In India.com, a social movement to learn, educate and develop a feminist consciousness among the youth. It aims to serve as India’s first feminist portal for resource & documentation purposes for everything related to feminism in India and a new media community platform for people to break their silence and raise their voices. The platform deals with themes like feminism, women, gender, sexuality, intersectionality and brings forth the minority, marginalized and powerless voices.

Carolina Rossini

RightsCon Director

Carolina Rossini is an experienced international professional with over 16 years of work in the internet and telco sector. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Lead with a demonstrated history of working in for-profits and non-profit organizations. She is skilled in Internet and Telecommunications Law, Regulation and Policy; Human Rights Law and Advocacy; and Intellectual Property transactions, including open licensing. Carolina graduated in International Relations (Masters), Law (LL.M and JD), and Management (MBA).

Burcu Kilic

Director, Digital Rights Program, Public Citizen

Melody Patry

Advocacy Director at Access Now

Melody Patry (Email: [email protected]) is Advocacy Director at Access Now. She leads on global advocacy, communications, and campaigns, working closely with the Policy and Tech teams to develop the strategies and partnerships needed to protect the internet and those who use it. Previously, Melody was head of advocacy at free speech organization Index on Censorship in London, where she worked with human rights defenders, government officials, and in coalitions such as the Global Network Initiative, the Civic Solidarity Platform, and Don’t Spy on Us. Before that, she worked with Cairo-based grassroots organizations and artists on campaigns addressing women’s rights issues, assisted the Representative to the European Union for Doctors Without Borders, and acted as a political advisor for the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations. She holds an MA in International Security from Sciences Po Paris and a BA in Law and Political Science from Lille II University.

Martin Tisné

Managing Director, Luminate

Damien Kieran

Data Protection, Legal, Twitter

Lorrayne Porciuncula

Internet Economist, OECD

Wafa Ben-Hassine

MENA Policy Counsel, Access Now

Pavithra Ram

Content Strategist, RNW Media

Ramy Raoof

Technologist and Privacy Researcher

Ramy is a technologist, privacy and security researcher. He interacts with a wide spectrum ranging from NGOs, journalists, lawyers, politicians, and artists on the intersection of tech and social causes, mainly on privacy and security, by devoting his skills as a techie and passion for free/open culture. Ramy develops privacy protocols, and in his research he focuses on surveillance patterns and holistic privacy. In the course of his work, he has provided and developed digital security plans and strategies for NGOs and members of the media, emergency response in cases of physical threats, support on publishing sensitive materials, secure systems for managing sensitive information, and operational plans for human rights emergency response teams, in Egypt and the MENA region. Most recently, Ramy has been volunteering with different NGOs and civil liberty groups in Central & South America, to enhance their privacy and security through means of behavioral change based on understanding surveillance and threat models in their own contexts and environments. In October 2017, Ramy received the international award Heroes of Human Rights and Communications Surveillance, "for exhaustive efforts to reveal invasive and harmful surveillance tactics that are being used to harm users at risk.", by Access Now. In May 2016 he received the international Bobs Award - Best of Online Activism in recognition for his work in digital security and privacy. In January 2016, he was named in the World Top 100 Info Security Influencers list by CISO Platform in India. In 2012, he was ranked number 10 by the Newsweek Magazine in the Revolutionaries list of the Digital Power Index, after being ranked number 14 by Forbes Middle East in Top 100 Arab Presence on Twitter a year earlier.

Melissa Kim

Operations and Development Manager, Access Now

Sherif Elsayed-Ali

Director of Partnerships, AI for Good

Sherif Elsayed-Ali is director of partnerships at Element AI, where he is responsible for partnerships with other institutions to advance the public benefit using artificial intelligence. He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on human rights and technology, and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard Kennedy School. Formerly, Sherif founded Amnesty Tech, which leads Amnesty International’s work on the impact of technology on human rights and the potential uses of new technologies to advance human rights protection. He held a number of other positions at Amnesty, including as director of global issues with responsibility for the organization’s research and advocacy on transitional human rights issues, and before that was global head of refugee and migrants’s rights. Sherif studied engineering and international law at the American University in Cairo and has a master in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School.

Berhan Taye

Campaigner, #KeepItOn Lead, Access Now

An Xiao Mina

Director of Product, Meedan

Maria Fernanda Jordão

Attorney specialized in International Law and Human Rights

Mira Milosevic

Executive Director, Global Forum for Media Development

Ms Mira Milosevic is the Director of the Brussels-based Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) since March 2017. Mira is a media expert who was a Director of Media Development Programmes at WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers), has served as Chief Platform Officer at Indie Voices and as a Director of the Belgrade based Media Center. More recently, she is the author of the World Press Trends reports, the most authoritative global source of data in the international newspaper industry, published by WAN-IFRA. She holds a Master’s degree in Communications from Westminster University in London.

Jessica Dheere

Founder/Executive Director, SMEX

Amie Stepanovich

U.S. Policy Manager, Access Now

Amie Stepanovich is U.S. Policy Manager at Access Now. Amie is an expert in domestic surveillance, cybersecurity, and privacy law. At Access Now, Amie leads projects on digital due process and responds to threats at the intersection of human rights and communications surveillance. Previously, Ms. Stepanovich was the Director of the Domestic Surveillance Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, where she testified in hearings in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as in State legislatures. She was co-chair for the 2014 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference and is the Committee on Individual Rights and Responsibilities' Liason to the American Bar Association's Cybersecurity Working Group. Amie was named as a Privacy Ambassador by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada and was recognized in 2014 as one of Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30 leaders in Law and Policy. Stepanovich has a J.D. from New York Law School, and a B.S. from the Florida State University.

María Paz Canales

Executive Director, Derechos Digitales

Maria Paz Canales is a Chilean antitrust lawyer and UC Berkeley Master of Laws with a Certificate of Specialization in Law & Technology. She is the Executive Director of Derechos Digitales.

Estelle Massé

Policy Analyst, Access Now

Estelle is a Policy Analyst at our Brussels office. Prior to joining Access, Estelle interned with European Digital Rights (EDRi), an association of 35 privacy and civil rights groups across Europe and at the UNESCO in Barcelona. Estelle graduated with three BA in Applied Languages from the University of Provence, France, the University of Limerick, Ireland and the University of Granada, Spain and a Master in European Law from the University of Granada. Her master thesis examined the shared competences between the EU and its member states in the protection of Fundamental Rights.