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 co-founded AccessNow, one of the largest digital rights organizations in the world, and my work led to AccessNow being a finalist for the 2010 Sakharov Prize, the European Union's highest human rights honour.

Recently, I co-founded the Azadi Archive, part of a global consortium investigating human rights violations against women 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. My invited talks have been 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 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.