Advisory board

Our board members oversee Digital Action’s activities and impact.

Marianne Elliott

Marianne Elliott

Chair

New Zealand

Marianne is co-founder of The Workshop in New Zealand. She is a researcher, strategist and storyteller with more than 25 years experience using research, advocacy and campaigning to promote human rights and democracy. Trained as a lawyer, she has lived and worked in the Gaza Strip, Timor Leste and Afghanistan, as well as New Zealand. Marianne’s strengths are in strategic approaches to system change, including fundraising, research, narratives, advocacy, campaigning and movement building. Her recent research has included work on digital inclusion, digital threats to democracy and criminal justice. Marianne is also co-founder of ActionStation Aotearoa and has more than a decade experience in governance roles in advocacy, campaigning and movement building organisations.

Heidi Tworek

Heidi Tworek

Advisory Board Chair (maternity leave)

Canada

Dr. Heidi Tworek is Associate Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has briefed or advised officials and policymakers from multiple European and North American governments on media, cybersecurity, disinformation, democracy, and the digital economy. She served on the steering committee of the Transatlantic High-Level Working Group on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression. Her work covers health communications and platform governance.

She is a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute as well as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her latest book – News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019) – received awards from the Wiener Holocaust Library and the Business History Conference.