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07 Mar Jackie Zammuto

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Jackie Zammuto leads WITNESS’ programmatic work in the United States, focusing on the use of video for advocacy and evidentiary purposes in the thematic areas of police accountability, decarceration, immigrant rights, and indigenous rights.

03 Mar Martin Tzanev

| WITNESS Martin Tzanev, Technology and Infosec Senior Coordinator Martin Tzanev is a technology professional with skills spanning IT support, information security, and media management. He works closely with the Director of People & Systems and co-leads the implementation of organizational security. He supported the development and led the testing of WITNESS’ apps for secure photo and video documentation, ProofMode and InformaCam. Martin participated in the building of the digital asset management system of the organization’s Media Archive, as well as researched and implemented new video technologies. He has provided support for many of WITNESS’ video productions and worked on the translation of “Equal Access,” an advocacy film on Romani activism for desegregation of education in Bulgaria. Before joining WITNESS, Martin worked for Teach for America. He has a BA from Hunter College and has completed coursework in International Studies at CUNY’s Graduate School and University Center. He is fluent in Bulgarian and English, speaks intermediate Russian and basic French.

25 Feb Tingo

| WITNESS Tingo Tingo is a Batéké (bah-teh-keh), or Congolese Hunting Dog. He hails from the village of Mvoula, just north of the equator in the Republic of Congo. As a puppy, Tingo met a researcher who was working with a team of local educators on a public health project that sought to protect villagers and wildlife from the lethal Ebola virus. Experiencing significant health issues himself, he befriended the team. His new friends moved him to Brazzaville to be cared for by a talented veterinarian with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Wildlife Health Program. Tingo regained his strength and grew from 2lbs. to well over 20lbs. His size, strength and natural agility proved invaluable. His innate capacity to protect human rights educators led him to WITNESS. Here, he is now responsible for protecting the physical security of WITNESS' Brooklyn office when he is not in the field assisting the team's filming efforts (his superior hearing makes him the perfect sound dog!). Tingo's tail wags are invaluable in ensuring daily smiles, as are his language skills. Tingo speaks English, French and Lingala (although he's forgotten the word "come" in all languages!).

22 Jan Laura Salas

| WITNESS Laura Salas, Senior Program Manager, Latin America & the Caribbean Laura leads WITNESS’ work in Latin America and the Caribbean. Under this role over the past decade, she has helped implemented initiatives such as Voices of Women, Caravans of Free and Community Media, the School of Strategic Communication for Land Defense and the School of Communication and Free Technologies for the Collective Defense of Territory, among others. She has over twenty years of experience in communication work, especially on community, video and rights process. She has directed over a dozen audiovisual projects with social and human rights themes that have been screened at film festivals in Mexico and internationally. Previously, Laura served as Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City. She has also worked with various human rights organizations, including the Mexican Commission of Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, the World Association of Community Radios (AMARC) and the Human Rights Center of the Mountain “Tlachinollan”. Laura coordinated the WITNESS and HIC AL (Habitat International Coalition – Latin America) video advocacy initiative in Mexico. She also serves on the Board of La Sandia Digital, a feminist training media and video collective she formally co-founded

19 Jan Yvonne Ng

| WITNESS Yvonne Ng, Senior Program Manager, Archives Yvonne is the Senior Program Manager of the Archives Program at WITNESS, where she trains, creates learning materials, and advocates on the use of archives for human rights change and accountability. An audiovisual archivist with 20 years of experience in community-based and nonprofit settings, Yvonne is dedicated to developing approaches to archiving that are accessible, innovative, and relevant to human rights defenders and contemporary movements. She has contributed to and collaborated on numerous grassroots archiving and digital preservation projects and initiatives, and is an active member of the global professional archivist community. In 2024 she received the Alan Stark Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists for her contributions to the field. Yvonne has a MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University, and a BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.

07 Mar Jackie Zammuto

03 Mar Martin Tzanev

25 Feb Tingo

22 Jan Laura Salas

19 Jan Yvonne Ng

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