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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.

17 Jan Izhar Patkin

| WITNESS Izhar Patkin, Artist Izhar Patkin was born in Israel, 1955. He is a visual artist known for working in narrative form. His work not only tells stories but deals with reinventing the structure and technique of visual narrative itself. The results are paintings and sculptures in diverse and innovative media, making imaginative use of materials and highly complex visual metaphors. Patkin’s work is included in many permanent collections, including those of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; among others. His yearlong exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, “The Wandering Veil”, will open on December 7, 2013. Patkin currently lives and works in New York City.

16 Jan Eli Pariser

| WITNESS Eli Pariser, President of the Board at MoveOn.org and a senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute As Executive Director of MoveOn.org, he directed the campaign against the war in Iraq which nearly tripled the organization's membership. His first book is The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You.

15 Jan Annie Ohayon

| WITNESS Annie Ohayon, Founder, AnnieOMedia Annie Ohayon is the former publicist for Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Angelique Kidjo, Philip Glass, Smashing Pumpkins, CaetanoVeloso Laurie Anderson, Annie Lennox, Bebel Gilberto, among other notable musicians. She curates & produces the intimate and acoustic concert series, which takes place in the basement of The Standard, East Village. Photo credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

14 Jan Sevil Miyhandar

| WITNESS Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, CCS Sevil Miyhandar is Corporate Vice President and Managing Director of CCS. She has experience working with non-profits from all sectors, including national and international civil liberties and human rights advocacy and service NGOs. She has assisted her clients with fundraising, organizational development, leadership and major donor programs, and training. Her clients have included: Africare, American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the NAACP, and Women for Women International. She serves on the Advisory Board of WITNESS and the Board of Trustees for the PEN American Center.

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