Team

Dalia is a digital rights advocate who has long worked on the intersections between technology, feminism, and social justice. She was the Co-Executive Director at The Engine Room, leading on research at the intersection between Technology and Social Justice. Prior to The Engine Room, Dalia co-founded and led Jeem, a feminist media organization producing knowledge in Arabic on issues related to gender and sexuality. While at Jeem, she worked on embedding healthy organizational structures and building a community of engagement around the content. Dalia spent two years as a research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, researching online communities in the Arabic-speaking region and how technology can enable narrative building and storytelling.

Lucie is a feminist digital rights activist with a passion for social justice and social change. She counts herself as a co-conspirator, rather than an ally, on matters of tech accountability, access, digital security, spyware use, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. She was the Deputy Executive Director at SMEX, where she led fundraising growth that doubled the organization as well as managed programs on digital security, right to privacy, tech accountability, freedom of expression, access to the internet and information, and the intersectionality of digital rights and other areas of human rights. Lucie holds a dual master’s in diplomacy and strategic negotiations and has applied skills in both places that were in action in joint Beirut-Belfast projects.

Vladimir Cortés Roshdestvensky is a human rights specialist focusing on freedom of expression, digital rights, journalism, AI and Internet Governance. With a master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratisaton from the University of Padua, he has extensively researched the impact of artificial intelligence on free speech and electoral integrity. Vladimir’s professional experience includes roles as Digital Rights Program Officer at Article 19 Mexico and Central America, policy advisor consultant for Meta, and country analyst for Freedom House’s annual report ‘Freedom on the Net’. His work encompasses investigating internet dynamics during Latin American protests, content moderation effects, and AI policy development in Mexico. Vladimir has been recognised with the “Nicola Tonon” Scholarship on Technology and Human Rights and the LACNIC Líderes Program award. His insights are regularly published in media outlets and human rights journals, contributing valuable perspectives to the intersection of technology and human rights.

Laura Vidal is a communications strategist and researcher working at the intersection of digital rights, community resilience, and intercultural dialogue. She has collaborated with international organisations and grassroots collectives to design participatory methodologies, develop inclusive narratives, and support digital protection efforts in authoritarian contexts.

She’s worked with IFEX, coordinating cross-regional storytelling strategies and strengthening the network’s public voice on freedom of expression efforts in the Americas. She previously led editorial projects with Global Voices, focusing on representation, politics of language, censorship, and online organising.

Laura has also coordinated language inclusion efforts with Mozilla and supported digital security organisations through Curious Shapes — helping strengthen narratives, research, and security frameworks for communities responding to shutdowns, surveillance, and targeted harassment.

She holds a PhD in Education Sciences from Université Paris-Est, and is especially interested in the informal ways knowledge circulates across diasporas and digitally connected communities. Her work combines narrative sensitivity with strategic clarity.