Daniel Arnaudo is an advisor at NDI for information strategies, covering the intersection of democracy and technology with a special responsibility to develop programs tracking disinformation and promoting information integrity worldwide. Concurrently, he is a Cybersecurity Fellow at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies where he has worked on projects in Brazil, Myanmar, and the United States.

Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world's leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations. He is a reporter for ProPublica covering voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. Craig previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation. Craig is also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. These free online books offer world-class guidance on how to verify online content and investigate disinformation and media manipulation.

Anjna HarDr. Anjna Harrar, MBBS, BSc(Hons), MRCGP, DRCOG, DFSRH, PGDipDerm, DHMSA, is a general practitioner in the U.K.. She graduated from St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, and holds additional degrees in degrees in dermatology and history of medicine. She is the former president of the History of Medicine Society, Royal Society of Medicine

Ksenia Coffman became known as the World War II editor who made it her mission to remove Nazi glorification from the online encyclopedia. Ksenia made 96,000 individual contributions to Wikipedia since she started as a volunteer editor 7 years ago. She was recently profiled in a WIRED article about her role in correcting and moderating Nazi propaganda on Wikipedia

Ben Whitelaw is a freelance journalist and consultant. Previously, he worked in digital and strategy roles at The Guardian and The Times of London before supporting independent media at the European Journalism Centre. Since 2018, he has written a newsletter about the future of content moderation and platform governance called Everything in Moderation.

Abbie Richards is a TikToker and TikTok misinformation researcher. She specializes in understanding how misinformation, conspiracy theories, and extremism spread on TikTok and creates educational content which explains these complex issues to a wider audience. She believes that understanding our new world of information is a right, not a privilege, and should therefore be as accessible as possible. So she puts it on TikTok. She's amassed a multi-platform following of over half a million people who are interested in learning about these complex issues.

Abbie is currently pursuing her MSc. where she studies the intersection of climate change and misinformation and she is a co-founder of EcoTok, an environmental Tiktok collective that specializes in social media-based climate communication.

Maria Luiza is a Data Scientist at ITS Rio and works with research focused mainly on social network analysis and disinformation. Also, she is currently a Ph.D. student in Computational Modeling at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC). She holds a master's degree in Computational Modeling from LNCC and an undergraduate degree in Information and Communication Technology.

Gabriela worked across campaigning, policy, research and innovation in the nonprofit sector prior to joining Glitch. Her work includes policy and advocacy work with children at risk of exclusion, participatory research with LGBTQ+ care experienced people and campaigning for disability rights with people with MS.

Her passion lies in working with people with lived experience to bring attention to social issues, pushing us to work across sectors to bring about the change we need. Her interest in data and AI ethics is driven by practical experience working with data and decision making in different services and contexts.

Her previous work on digital harms focused on online gender-based violence, with a particular focus on intimate image abuse. Her own experience of prolonged self-exclusion from the digital space gives her a deep understanding of how online harm can impact people's lives. Gabriela has a strong ethos of collaboration and speaks English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, meaning she's always looking to collaborate across borders where possible.

Program Manager, Advocacy & Feminist Movement Building Programs, Pollicy, Uganda. She is a Pan African feminist who advocates for women and girls’ rights with a focus in democratic governance. She engages with African Women’s Rights and Feminist Organisations to strengthen the institutions through Feminist Organisational Capacity Strengthing and advocacy for Women at the different Human Rights Systems. She co-convenes the Feministing While African (FWA) an online Safe Space for Conversations to navigate Feminism as Africans.

DeVan has spent her career working on communications policy and regulatory matters which expand consumer-side benefits derived from technology-based progress and innovation.

Prior to joining the Institute, she developed experience both in third-party coalition management and policy advocacy as Senior Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at the Goodfriend Group, a government relations, public policy, and digital advocacy firm. She began her career in D.C. in the public interest sector with the advocacy organization Multicultural Media, Telecom, and Internet Council (MMTC). While there, she led research on technology access issues with a specific focus on the impact of disruptive technologies, and worked on strategic advocacy championing the broad deployment of critical communications infrastructure.

Nevin Thompson is Community and Communications Lead of, Credibility Coalition, a research community of journalists, researchers, and technologists that fosters collaborative approaches to understanding the veracity, quality and credibility of online information while developing approaches to address misinformation. Nevins organizes and facilitations the incubation of research collaborations, and presents and explains the subsequent results.

Miriam Redi is a Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation and Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Formerly, she worked as a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs Barcelona, Yahoo Research London and Nokia Bell Labs in Cambridge. She received her PhD from EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis. She conducts research in social multimedia computing, working on fair, interpretable, multimodal machine learning solutions to improve knowledge equity.

Justin Arenstein is the founder and executive director of Africa's largest investigative technology and data journalism initiative, Code for Africa (CfA). CfA operates technology labs in seven African countries and works with newsrooms in a further 22 countries.

Prior to founding CfA, Arenstein established and ran southern Africa's largest independent investigative news agency, AENS, after being fired from the Caxton Group in 1994 for campaigning for equal pay for black and white journalists. AENS grew into regional social justice wire service, winning a string of international journalism awards for its investigative reports on corruption and state capture.

Rachael is the Head of Geopolitical Risk at ActiveFence, where she leads the company’s services and solutions for misinformation, disinformation, and emerging trends. She has nearly 20 years of experience in security, defense, journalism, and international relations both in the private sector and academic world. This included over a decade of work in B2G activities and managing web intelligence teams in a range of applications, services, and products.

Rachael holds a B.A. in Government, Strategy, and Diplomacy from Reichman University and an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University where she specialized in regional and international policies in the Arabian Gulf.

Meghann began her career with a Masters in Public Policy at Oregon State University, focusing on program quality and design, with an especial focus on community driven development practices.

She has since worked in International Development in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning and as a Technology for Development Advisor, focusing on ethical and accessbile integration and use of ICT tools (particularly social media and messaging tools) for information sharing, feedback mechanisms, early warning systems, and communicating with program participants. In the last two years, she has supported and lead several initiatives to explore the nexus of digital mis- and disinformation and humanitarian crises.

Rachael is the Head of Geopolitical Risk at ActiveFence, where she leads the company’s services and solutions for misinformation, disinformation, and emerging trends. She has nearly 20 years of experience in security, defense, journalism, and international relations both in the private sector and academic world. This included over a decade of work in B2G activities and managing web intelligence teams in a range of applications, services, and products.

Rachael holds a B.A. in Government, Strategy, and Diplomacy from Reichman University and an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University where she specialized in regional and international policies in the Arabian Gulf.