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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

    • System/Operations Administrator

    Alejandro Mondragon

    Alejandro is the System/Operation Administrator of Tactical Tech.

    • 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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    • Communications 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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    • Operations Manager

    Carolina Soligo

    Carolina is Tactical Tech's People Operations and Culture Manager

    • Project Coordinator

    Cassie Cladis

    Cassiane is the project coordinator for The Influence Industry Project. Cassiane has an extensive professional background in developing digital and media literacy programs and resources, with an emphasis on inclusive design. She is passionate about making the complexities of digital influence spheres accessible to all audiences.

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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

    Danja Vasiliev

    Danja is Tactical Tech's Infrastructure team lead. 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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    • Project Coordinator

    Dominika Knoblochova

    Dominika is the 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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    • Senior Project Coordinator

    Helderyse Rendall

    Helderyse is the Senior project coordinator 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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    • System/Operations Engineer

    Jacopo Anderlini

    Jacopo is a technologist working as a System and Operations Engineer to ensure the functioning and reliability of Tactical Tech’s digital autonomous and privacy-oriented infrastructure. He is also a researcher at the University of Parma, focusing on sociology of migration and asylum, border studies, and critical STS.

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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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    • Products Team Lead

    Laurent Dellere

    Laurent is Tactical Tech's Products Team Lead, responsible for the design and development of our products. Laurent holds a BA in computer science and has over a decade of experience programming software with a focus on frontend and user interfaces.

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    • Senior Project Coordinator

    Louise M. Hisayasu

    Louise is the senior project coordinator of The Glass Room project. 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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    • Project Lead

    Mo R

    Mo R is the project lead for The Glass Room project. Mo has extensive experience as a trainer and in conceptualizing, producing, disseminating, and monitoring projects, events, and interventions.

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    • Deputy Executive Director

    Nicholas Crockford

    Nicholas is Tactical Tech's Deputy Executive 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.

    • 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 almost 20 years of experience in instructional design, curriculum development and adult education.

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    • Software Engineer

    Saqib Sohail

    Saqib is working in the Products Team across multiple projects support the development of Tactical Tech products.

    • Project Developer

    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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    • Designer

    Yiorgos Bagakis

    Yiorgos is a multidisciplinary designer working across digital and print media. He is engaged in product design, information design and web development. He has been part of Tactical Tech's product team since 2018 and has been involved in various projects.

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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

    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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