25 Jul Zuzanna Wojciak

| farah Zuzanna Wojciak, Program Associate, Technology Threats and Opportunities Zuzanna is the Program Associate at the Technology Threats and Opportunities team at WITNESS, where she supports the work around synthetic media detection.  Prior to joining WITNESS, she worked as a researcher at university-based projects where she investigated a diverse range of issues, including the impact of emerging technologies in policing on freedom of assembly, assessing the long-term societal dimension of AI-related harm, as well as housing rights and drug policy. She also has experience working on open-source human rights investigations as a former member of Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps and is a Humanity in Action Fellow Zuzanna holds an LLB in Law with Human Rights and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. Her Master's thesis assessed the capacity of the human rights framework to challenge the legal sex/gender binary and was awarded the Nigel Rodley Prize for Best LLM International Human Rights Law Dissertation. READ MORE

25 Jul Dennese Mae Javier

| farah Dennese Mae Javier, Global Content Coordinator, Communications and Engagement Dennese Mae is an educator, researcher, and communications specialist passionate about utilizing art and video as tools for advocacy, creating counter-narratives, preserving historical memory, and securing accountability. She joined WITNESS in 2024 as a Programmatic Communications Coordinator for the U.S. Program. In this role, she managed regional communications, produced high-impact audiovisual content, developed resources, and led trainings that helped individuals and communities harness the power of video to defend human rights. In 2025, Dennese Mae joined the Communications and Engagement team, where she helps develop global communications strategies, oversees and contributes to content production across all platforms, and amplifies WITNESS’ work to reach communities on the frontlines of change.  Previously, Dennese Mae has worked in schools and for non-profits, leading capacity-building initiatives, participatory research projects, and media campaigns alongside communities to co-create the changes they want to see. Most recently, she conducted a critical ethnography that identified systemic inequities within the U.S. education system and developed asset-based frameworks for re-contextualizing communities of color.  Dennese Mae holds a B.A. in Government, English, and Art History from Georgetown University and an M.S. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania with specializations in ethnography, READ MORE

25 Jul Farah Maliha

| farah Farah Maliha, Global Digital Engagement Coordinator  Farah Maliha is the Global Digital Engagement Coordinator at WITNESS, where she leads the coordination of digital engagement strategy across the organization’s global platforms. She supports the development and execution of social media campaigns, helps maintain platform infrastructure and documentation, and works closely with regional and programmatic teams to translate WITNESS’s work into clear, accessible digital content. Her role focuses on building engagement strategies that are grounded in storytelling and designed to connect global audiences with the voices of frontline communities. Farah’s background in activism began with ActionAid International, where she played a key role in establishing the Activista youth network across Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt. During and after the Arab Spring, she led regional programs focused on youth leadership, women’s rights, and advocacy training, mobilizing and supporting hundreds of young changemakers across the region. She later coordinated multi-country campaigns and partnerships that addressed systemic issues around gender, equity, and access to public services. Before joining WITNESS, Farah worked with the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation (ACIC), where she supported organizational learning and communications by curating stories of partner impact and strengthening public engagement strategies. Her work consistently bridges program design and READ MORE

27 Mar Bruna Martins dos Santos

| fatima Bruna Martins dos Santos, Policy and Advocacy Manager, Technology Threats and Opportunities Bruna works in the Technology Threats and Opportunities team at WITNESS, helping shape advocacy efforts and craft policy inputs to reduce harm and ensure that video and technology work for human rights.  Previously, she worked at Digital Action, helping steer the Year of Democracy Campaign, leading advocacy efforts to protect global elections during the 2024 mega-cycle, and engaging with policy spaces like the G20 and the EU Parliament with a global majority focus. Additionally, she has long term experience working as a civil society activist both in Brazil and globally on the intersection between technology and Human Rights, during which she has worked in many internet governance spaces such as the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the Internet Corporation for the Assignment of Names and Numbers (ICANN).  Bruna has a BA in Law with a specific focus in Emerging Technologies, Internet Governance and Regulation. She is based in Berlin, Germany. READ MORE

12 Mar Mahsa Alimardani

| fatima Mahsa Alimardani, Associate Director - Technology Threats & Opportunities Mahsa is the Associate Director of the Technology Threats & Opportunities program at WITNESS. She has over a decade of experience working at the intersection of digital rights, freedom of expression, and emerging technologies, leading research and advocacy on digital repression and contributing to the design and development of technologies that serve the most vulnerable. Before joining WITNESS, Mahsa led research and advocacy on internet censorship, surveillance, and digital repression at ARTICLE 19, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. She serves in advisory roles as a Guardrails Advisor for De|Center, a Committee Member for SMEX’s Digital Rights Fund, and a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Digital Democracy Network. She is also a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford, where her research explores digital repression, and has served as a Senior Information Controls Fellow supported by the Open Technology Fund. Mahsa’s work has been featured in British Vogue, BBC, and CNN, and her writing and analysis have been published in The New York Times, Politico, and various academic journals. At WITNESS, Mahsa leads efforts to address the challenges and opportunities of existing and emerging technologies, including READ MORE