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Our team

Meet our team and our experts in digital and media literacy, critical thinking and ethical technologies.

Our international and experienced team has a multidisciplinary background, including political scientists, journalists, investigators, technologists, artists, and communication specialists. Our team members come from all across the world and speak over 16 languages including Arabic, Czeck, Creole, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Pakistani, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Our funders, the Executive Director and our expert team members are available to speak to the media and for public appearances. Select the option you prefer:

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Our team

    • Project Lead

    Amber Macintyre

    Amber is the project lead for The Influence Industry Project. Amber is a researcher and workshop facilitator who studies how data is used in political processes. She has extensive experience leading research and capacity-building projects on data, politics, and activism.

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    • Communication and Fundraising Manager
    • Partnerships Manager

    Ana Maria Salinas

    Ana Maria Salinas is Tactical Tech's communications and partnerships manager. Ana is a Colombian journalist, political scientist, and communication specialist with over 10 years of experience in strategic communication and partnership development.

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    • People and Operations Manager

    Carolina Soligo

    Carolina is the People and Operations Manager at Tactical Tech. With over 20 years of global experience spanning work, study, and volunteer initiatives, she thrives on new challenges and cross-cultural engagement. Of Italian-German heritage, she relocated to Berlin in 2012 through a University of Venice scholarship—and has called it home ever since.

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    • Programme Director

    Christy Lange

    Christy is TacticalTech's Programme Director. She is an experienced writer, editor, and curator who is passionate about fostering public dialogue and debate about the role that contemporary art can play in addressing social and political issues. She has published over 150 articles about contemporary art.

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    • Infrastructure Team Lead
    • System / Operation Engineer

    Danja Vasiliev

    Danja is Tactical Tech's Infrastructure team lead and system / operation engineer. Danja is a critical engineer and educator who works extensively in the field of computer technology, focusing on critical examination of the internet, personal data, and the intricacies of networked systems.

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    • Senior Project Coordinator

    Dominika Knoblochova

    Dominika is the Senior Project Coordinator for the What The Future Wants project. Dominika has a background in social and community work and more than 15 years of experience in informal education and media literacy for youth. She is passionate about using a combination of education, art and co-creation methods.

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    • Project Lead

    Helderyse Rendall

    Helderyse is the Project Lead of Tactical Tech's project focused on youth, What The Future Wants. Expert in public engagement and participation with over a decade of experience in facilitation, advocacy and policy.

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    • Project Coordinator

    Jasmine Erkan

    Jasmine is the project coordinator of Exposing the Invisible: a project about the techniques, tools and methods of digital and non-digital investigations. She researches and writes about the political, social, and cultural implications of technology.

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    • Finance Manager

    Jomana Bakhiet

    Jomana is Tactical Tech's Finance Manager. Jomana is a finance manager and data analyst with over 10 years of expertise in financial analysis, data-driven decision-making, strategic planning, and resource management. She has worked across diverse sectors focusing on developing financial models.

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    • Project Expert

    Laura Ranca

    Laura leads Tactical Tech's Exposing the Invisible project which provides techniques, tools and methods of digital and non-digital investigations. Laura Ranca is a trainer and investigator with 20 years of experience in researching media, political and corporate corruption, as well as the interconnections between them.

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    • Senior Project Coordinator

    Louise M. Hisayasu

    Louise is the Creative Lead Producer. Louise has over 10 years of experience in event management and extensive experience developing and leading workshops and training programs for partners working in diverse contexts globally.

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    • Deputy Director

    Nicholas Crockford

    Nicholas is Tactical Tech's Deputy Director, responsible for providing strategic guidance to the organisation and overseeing the organisation's development functions, including fundraising and grant management, partnership management and communications.

    • Communications and Partnerships Trainee

    Pari Abbasli

    Pari Abbasli is a journalist and media enthusiast from Azerbaijan with a background in journalism, media, and digital literacy. She holds a Master’s degree in Media, Journalism, and Globalization from Aarhus University (Denmark) and Charles University (Czechia), supported by the Erasmus Mundus Journalism scholarship. Her academic journey has focused on totalitarianism, digital storytelling, cultural globalization, and gender in journalism.

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    • Associate Programme Director
    • Project Lead

    Safa Ghnaim

    Safa is Tactical Tech's Associate Programme Director and Project lead for the Data Detox Kit project. Safa is a diaspora Palestinian educator, writer, and fibre artist with 20 years of experience in instructional design, curriculum development and adult education.

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    • Front End Developer

    Saqib Sohail

    Saqib is Front End Developer, working across multiple projects support the development of Tactical Tech products.

    • Project Developer
    • Project Lead

    Wael

    Wael is a Project Developer for Tactical Tech's Exposing the Invisible project. He is a journalist, technologist and trainer known for his critical commentary on Egyptian politics, human rights issues, and social justice.

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Founders and executive directors

    • Co-Founder
    • Executive Director

    Marek Tuszynski

    Marek Tuszynski, Executive Director and co-founder of Tactical Tech, is an artist, designer and curator working at the intersection of technology and activism. Marek is also a filmmaker, producer, teacher and provocateur whose creative interventions span media from film and radio to television, books, exhibitions, public spaces and the web. For 30 years, he has worked at the intersection of technology and politics, information and activism, and the consequences of living in a quantified society. In 2023, Marek was recognised by Mozilla Rise25 Awards as one of the artists and visionary...

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    • Co-Founder
    • Executive Director

    Stephanie Hankey

    Stephanie Hankey is a designer, technologist and activist who has been working internationally at the intersection of technology, human rights and civil liberties for the past 20 years. Her work combines her art, design and technology background with her focus on privacy, personal data and ethics. She currently talks, teaches, writes and consults on 'the politics of data'.

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Supervisory board members

  • Andre Wilkens

    André Wilkens is the director of the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam. He is also the Board Chair of Tactical Tech Cooperative, the co-founder of the Initiative Offene Gesellschaft and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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  • Andrea Joras

    Andrea is an experienced CEO/Senior Executive with a demonstrated history in international cooperation, and she brings extensive international experience from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and major industrialised countries. To shape the digital transformation in a socially responsible way is according to her longstanding experience the foundation of a successful transformation of our economic and social system towards sustainability, remaining one of the key challenges for the decades to come.

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  • Janet Dalziell

    Janet is a consultant in organisational development, leadership and culture for NGOs and social enterprises. Until 2019 she worked for Greenpeace International as People and Culture Director, where she led the development and implementation of the organisation’s first global People Strategy, oversaw the creation of a leadership development programme, and led the development of an Integrity System for the global organisation.

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  • Jonathan Landgrebe

    Jonathan Landgrebe is a German publisher and CEO of the Suhrkamp Publishing House. Since 2000, he has worked for several years in research and teaching at the LMU and TU Munich and has played a key role in establishing the Center for Digital Technology and Management, a joint venture between the two universities.

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  • Ravi Agarwal

    Over the past 14 years, Ravi and his group have played a key role, as civil society actors, to help formulate polices and regulations including those relating to bio medical waste, municipal solid waste and hazardous waste, besides implementing several best practice models on the ground.

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