For 15 years I have been a human rights activist, professional, and scholar.

I lead Human Rights at the Wikimedia Foundation and am an assistant professor of new media at Central European University.

In 2009, I assembled a team providing digital security, DDoS resistant hosting, & communications tools to thousands of threatened activists and journalists during Iran's Green Movement.

This led to me co-founding AccessNow out of my bedroom. Now, AccessNow is the world’s largest digital rights organization, and my activism led to AccessNow being shortlisted for the 2010 Sakharov Prize, the European Union's highest human rights honour.

Recently, I co-founded the Azadi Archive, part of the Iran Digital Archive Coalition supporting global open source investigations of human rights violations, crimes against humanity, and gender based violence in Iran together with the Atlantic Council, Amnesty International, Mnemonic, UC Berkeley, and UCLA.

I’ve advised the International Criminal Court, U.S. Senators, the OSCE, and the Kofi Annan Commission, and others. I’ve been invited to speak at Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, and many other venues. I’ve also appeared in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired Magazine, and elsewhere.

I have extensive academic and hands-on global field experience in geostrategic human rights risks & futures, digital security and human rights, the geopolitics of cyberspace, and artificial intelligence and human rights.

All of my work is informed by my very deeply held belief in human dignity.