Mozilla Open Leaders

Mozilla Open Leaders

Experts

These experts have volunteered their time (& are very excited) to speak with OLˣ participants! See anyone you’d like to chat with? Let your Mozilla Champion know.

Champions: please use this form to request a meeting with one of the experts below

Areas:

AI/ML

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Grant R. Vousden-Dishington

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Athina Tzovara

I am a neuroscientist with a background in computer engineering, interested in machine learning, python, statistics, and diversity in STEM.

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Tejasri Nampally

Hyderabad, India

Progressive Thinker, Supporter of Open Knowledge Foundation, Internet Freedom, User Privacy.

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Sarah M Brown

Providence, RI, USA

Sarah M Brown is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Data Science Initiative at Brown University studying fair machine learning.

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Abhay Joshi

Engineer | ChangeMaker | (R)Evolutionary! Design Engineer (Wireless Communications, Automotive Software)

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Kostas Stathoulopoulos

London, United Kingdom

I work at the intersection of machine learning, economics and policy-making, developing tools that help people take evidence-based decisions

Design

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Eriol Fox

Bristol, UK

Non-binary (They/Them) Designer, UI & UX, Illustrator, LGBTQ+, Queer, Sex positive, Feminist, Gamer, Vegan(ish). Designer @ushahidi

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Lucia Trias

Design Researcher. User-processes designer. Working at the intersection of participatory approaches and pluriversal design conceptions.

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Akshay Roongta

I work as an independent consultant with social impact projects, helping them think through scale and program design. Happy to help with HCD

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Andrew Nelson

Boston, MA

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Samuel Osei Mensah

Accra

A media practitioner, digital marketing & comms specialist. Director at PivotDigitalMedia.tk, and GrisGlobal.org. An ISOC Youth@IGF.

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Maya Wagoner

Brooklyn, New York, USA

User Experience Designer at the Brooklyn Public Library. Former Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow. Mentor in the Mozilla Open Leaders program.

Digital Inclusion

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lauren mccarthy

Lauren McCarthy is an artist who examines how issues of surveillance, automation, and network culture affect our social relationships.

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Pablo Aguilera

Mexico City

Pablo is currently focused on advocating and researching the impact of AI, censorship, and surveillance on LGBTQI+ populations.

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Elliott Stevens

I am a librarian at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Ifeoma Okonji

Lagos,Nigeria

Social entrepreneur,Mozilla Open Leader,advocate for young women to leverage technology for equal development.

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Faith Zuma

I am a IT Support, project manager, researcher, Mozilla contributor & curriculum designer also interested in entrepreneurship,volunteering.

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Cassandra Wachilonga

Graduate lawyer, Co-founder/VP-Internet Yetu, Co-Organiser,Netsquared Nairobi. Interested in digital rights and digital inclusion.

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Nikolaos Nerantzis

Thermi, Greece

https://4myfiles.wordpress.com/info/cv/

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Cybelle

São Paulo, Brasil

Cyber security research and activist advocating for digital privacy & security, feminism, cat lover, and human rights defender.

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Itzel Moreno

Morelos, Mexico

We are a group of people in monority diversity. We trust in internet as a media for inclusion that drives fairer global policies for all.

Event Organization

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Mario Garcia

Chiapas, Mexico

FOSS Enthusiast | Speaker | Mozillian | Mozilla Reps | Mozilla Open Leaders | Python & Rust Developer

Governance

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Danielle Robinson, PhD

Portland, OR

President and Co-Executive Director of Code for Science & Society, 2016 Mozilla Fellow

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Hélène Martin

San Diego, CA, United States

I am a maintainer for opendatakit.org, a project that builds tools for mobile data collection in resource-constrained environments.

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Lily Edinam Botsyoe

Lily is a budding IT person with a little over a year experience in Internet Governance issues/policies and Computer Networking.

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Noha Ashraf Abdel Baky

Cairo, Egypt

A Storage Engineer at DellEMC. Has been involved in IG spaces for 2 years co-founded Digital Grassroots

Open Data

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Meag Doherty

Washington, DC

Mozfest Wrangler 2022. Research software at National Institutes of Health. Aspiring vegan Italian cook.

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Shadab Hussain

Open Source| Data Science | Machine Learning

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Fatma Guerfali

Tunis, Tunisia

Biologist/Bioinformatician working on high-throughput approaches applied to host-pathogen interactions at Institut Pasteur de Tunis (IPT).

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Miranda Marcus

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PraveenGorla

India

Research Fellow | Free(dom) Software, Telecommunications, Neural Networks, Open Design of Trusted IoT, Psychology &Philosophy of Technology

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Virginia Brussa

Argentina

Internacionalista.Metodologías Participativas. Labs,OpenEdu,Science,Data. Participación en PP. CivicTech/OpenInnov/CitizenEngagement/DH

Open Educational Resources

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Lillian Hogendoorn

Digital Access and Open Educational Resources Lead, eCampusOntario

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samantha ahern

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Felipe Do E. Santo

Felipe is a Professor, Mozillian and a Web Dev, currently doing a Master's and researching about Open Educational Resources.

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Tricia Monticello Kievlan

Writer and educator helping people connect and solve problems together.

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Jeffrey M Keefer

Educational Consultant & Coach + Nonprofit Capacity Builder + Professor + Edu Researcher + Poet + Wikimedian + Actor-Network Theorist

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Maha Bali

Cairo, Egypt

Associate professor of practice, Center for Learning & Teaching, American Univ in Cairo. Co-founder virtuallyconnecting.org & #unboundeq

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Sandra Muellrick

Berlin. Germany

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Jennie Rose Halperin

Jennie is a digital strategist, librarian & open access enthusiast in Boston. She is Assistant Director for Outreach @ Harvard Law Library

Open Science

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Felix Henninger

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Jon Tennant

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney

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Sarah Melton

Head of Digital Scholarship, Boston College Libraries

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Pablo M. Jordan

I am a developer, entrepreneur and researcher, I love data and working with teams

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Bradly Alicea

Champaign-Urbana IL USA

Bradly Alicea has a PhD from Michigan State, Head Scientist at Orthogonal Lab, and is a Senior Contributor at OpenWorm Foundation.

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Ivo Jimenez

PhD candidate @ucsc; BSSw Fellow; @uccross grad researcher. Working on @getpopper.

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Vinodh Ilangovan

Stardust with consciousness and anti-kyriarchy principles. Working on brains, clocks, sleep, meta-research through open philosophy.

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PhD student in physics at the University of Toronto studying bacteria-virus interactions and the CRISPR adaptive immune system.

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Hao Ye

Gainesville, Florida, USA

My research explores how ecosystems change over time using data; I am also interested in improving inclusion and accessibility in higher ed.

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Caleb kibet

Nairobi, Kenya

I am a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow, MozFest 2021 Openness Wangler, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, and community building.

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Anne Clinio

Brazilian researcher interested in Open Science, Open Data, specially open laboratory notebooks. Working at Fiocruz Open Science Group.

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Rob Schaefer

I am a computer scientist and geneticist writing code to ensure a future with enough food! My main tools are Python and the Web.

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Anne Fouilloux

Oslo, Norway

Working as a Research Software Engineer.

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Sanli

Assistant professor at the Physics department of Utrecht University.

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David Bild

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Monica Granados

Ottawa, ON, Canada

I a Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow working as Policy Analyst at Environment and Climate Change Canada in open science.

Open Source

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Md. Shahbaz Alam

Ranchi, India

Mozilla Reps | Open Source Enthusiast | Auth0 Ambassador | A Full-Stack Developer who loves speaking at meetups and conferences.

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Joel Östblom

Biomedical Engineering PhD student that enjoys learning and teaching how to better understand data (and thus the world around us!).

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Rodrigo Oliveira

Software Engineering Student at University of Brasília, open source developer, python programmer, functional languages lover!

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Saloni Garg

Mozilla Open Leader, International Women In Open source Award Winner, Computer Science Student

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Cheuk Ting Ho

London, UK

Cheuk is a data scientist, a public speaker. She encourages women in technology, and actively contributes to Python open source projects.

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Rabimba Karanjai

Houston, TX, USA

Graduate Researcher, tinkerer. Works with Mozilla MR team on WebXR. Also a Mozilla TechSpeaker and Google Developer Expert

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

Paris, France

Fellow at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity, co-founder of openSNP & Director of Research at Open Humans. Does Community Science

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Bloody Marie

A sociologist & software engineer interested in the intersections between technologies & societies. Also: menstrual cups & password managers

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Apostolos Kritikos

Thessaloniki, Greece

Critical Engineer working w/ #OpenSource. Engineering Team Lead @toggltrack.

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Pablo Diego Silva da Silva

Software Engineering Student at University of Brasília - Brazil. Mostly a Python programmer and DevOps. Also a bassist and musician :)

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Chris Hartgerink

Berlin, DE

Shuttleworth fellow resetting research work. MozFest wrangler 2021.

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Jona Azizaj

#FLOSS Advocate 📢 | D&I and Community 💙 | Open Source Diversity 🌼| Feminist 🙋 | she/her

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Sayak Sarkar

Web Developer, Evangelist, Open Web Activist

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Anna e só

Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

Tech writer (Season of Docs, Open Collective), consultant (LAPPIS/UnB), Outreachy alum (Wikimedia) and applicant helper. They/them, a/ela/a.

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Riccardo Iaconelli

Riccardo Iaconelli is from Milano, Italy. He has been a free software developer since he was 13, now leads Open Source Strategy at Mozilla.

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Bonface Ochieng

Nairobi

A social innovator, with a keen interest in Working Open and how to leverage technology in solving socio-economic challenges,

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Wambui Karuga

I am a software developer with a soft spot for how technology can be used to improve our liives. I also wear a lot of cool hats.

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Anish Ansari

Nepal

Open Source enthusiastic and loves to code. A web developer, also interested in the Internet of Things and Android App development.

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Chris Holdgraf

Data Science Fellow @ the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, I work on Project Jupyter (jupyter.org) and the Binder Project (mybinder.org)

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Jason A. Clark (he/him/his)

Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A.

librarian, professor, hacker, Semantic Web + metadata + archives geek, author, husband, dad - doing it under the Big Sky in Montana, U.S.A.

Privacy & Security

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Di Luong

Mozfest Wrangler Mentor 2020 - 2021

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Vishal Chavan

Nashik, Maharashtra, India

A Web Developer by profession, and an Open Source enthusiast by passion. I am currently elected as Mozilla Reps Council member.

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Luca Maria Castiglione

London

PhD student at the Department of Computing of Imperial College London, my research mainly focus on resilience of Cyber Physical Systems.

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Diwanshi Pandey

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Diwanshi is a Full Stack Software Engineer @ RedHat & a Mozilla Tech Speaker and enjoys telling people about WASM and Rust, JS, UI/UX.

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Tim

Interested in privacy, de-centralization, security and open collaboration. Freelancer. Berlin, Germany.

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Danny Rayman

Berlin, Germany

Chilean, Lawyer and researcher, working in projects related to Privacy, DigitalSafety, Anti Corruption, FoE, and Human rights accountability

Project Management

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Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran

Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

MozFest 2018-22 | Socio-Tech Researcher | Spatial Cadetz |Mozilla Rep | Mozilla OL7 grad | NeuroDivergent

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Priyanka Nag

I am an open-source enthusiast who likes to hang out with geeks, drink a lot of coffee, and spend too much time in front of the terminal.