2024-2026 Cohort

Thiane Neves Barros | Brazil

Thiane is an activist in Black and feminist movements, and works as a researcher and participant observer of communication in the Amazonia. She is part of a collective called the Transfeminist Network of Digital Care and recently finished her PhD in Communication Sciences, focusing on the appropriation of technologies and internet infrastructures in Amazonia.

Partnered with data_labe

Virginia Brussa | Argentina

Virginia is a professor and researcher in data, gender, international context in technological governance and public policies. She is the director of CODATECS, co-coordator of the Feminist Tech LatAm Chair. She also promotes Open Science and Scientific Diplomacy from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR). She has supported open movement and data activism projects for over 10 years from government, academia, and international NGOs.  She has consulted on projects such as the Global Data Barometer, open data policy monitoring platforms, and global technology innovation initiatives.

Partnered with: Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE)

Marcelle Chagas | Brazil

Before the fellowship, Marcelle worked as a leader in communication with strong expertise in combating misinformation, improving journalism, and promoting digital inclusion. She serves as Coordinator at the Observatory of Gender, Race, and Territoriality in Science and as General Coordinator of the Network of Black Journalists for Diversity in Communication, and is alumna of the Clinton Foundation.

Partnered with Peregum

Angela Chukunzira | Kenya

Angela has been involved with social movements and their communicative practices in Nairobi. She has also examined the intersection of labour within the digital economy specifically with location-based platform workers and the ‘invisible’ tech workers. She has previously researched on youth perceptions of digitisation, unemployment and what the future of work(ers) looks like.

Partnered with Siasa Place

Priya Goswami | Hong Kong

Priya is a feminist tech and media maker and the co-founder and CEO of a feminist AI -social entrepreneurship, Mumkin App LLP. Priya is a winner of the national film award of India, conferred bythe President of India, a recipient of the German Chancellor Fellowship for Young Leaders (AvH Stiftung, Germany), and the co-founder of an international non-profit, Sahiyo.

Partnered with Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM)

Sarra Hannachi | Tunisia

Sarra has been working with humanitarian organizations in data governance, statistics, data analysis and mixed-methods research. She has also collaborated with advocacy-focused organizations on data & AI ethics and inclusion. Her thematic research focus areas intersecting with her data-driven work are on humanitarian action, peace and security, particularly in conflict-affected countries in Africa and the MENA region.

Partnered with: Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights

Khaled Kouba | United States

Before the fellowship, Khaled worked as a digital policy expert and the founder and CEO of AT Worthy Technology, Inc. He also served on the boards of ICANN, the Internet Society (ISOC), AfriNIC, and OP3FT, and a member of the UN's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group.
Partnered with L’Art Rue

Eduard Martín-Borregón | Mexico

Edu works coordinating multidisciplinary teams that combine technological development, data analysis, research and journalistic narratives. He is currently Executive Director of Abrimos.info, and has been honored with the Sigma Award 2020, the most prestigious award for data journalism, and has been twice nominated for the García Márquez Innovation Award: in 2016 for creating Méxicoleaks and in 2020 for TodosLosContratos.mx.

Partnered with: Documenta

Nada Kabbary Mousa | Egypt - UK

Nada K. Mousa is a researcher in digital politics and a digital rights advocate. She holds an MA in Digital Culture & Society from King’s College London and has over 12 years of experience working with leading organizations in the MENA region in programmatic, research, and communication roles. Her work explores how technology shapes socio-political structures, power dynamics, and cultural contexts, with a particular focus on the MENA region.

Partnered with Arab Reform Initiative

Aziz Tworo | Uganda

Aziz is a data scientist dedicated to leveraging technology to advance social impact, and before Mozilla, he founded AmberLoops, a data, research, and analytics firm that specializes in data collection and development research in East Africa, supporting academic institutions, non-profits, and international agencies with accurate data, insights, and digital solutions.

Partnered With Coalition for Grassroots Human Rights Defenders