Felicia Anthonio works with Access Now as Campaigner for the #KeepItOn Campaign, a global campaign that fights against internet shutdowns. The #KeepItOn coalition is made up of over 210 organizations across the world. Before joining Access Now, she was a Programme Associate at the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) where she coordinated the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), a continental network of free expression organisations in Africa. Felicia led the AFEX’s campaigns and advocacy work on freedom of expression including the safety of journalists, access to information and internet freedoms and digital rights with particular focus on policy reforms that are inimical to the enjoyment of freedom of expression (offline and online). She is a 2019 Fellow of the African Internet Governance School (AfriSIG). She holds a Master’s Degree in Lettres, Langues et Affaires Internationales from l’ Université d’Orléans, France and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French and Psychology from the University of Ghana.

Vrinda Bhandari is a litigating lawyer in New Delhi, India, and specialises in the field of digital rights, technology, and privacy. She has been involved in litigation relating to the biometric identity project in India (Aadhaar), the contact tracing app developed by the government (Aarogya Setu), the restoration of internet in Jammu & Kashmir, and challenges to the constitutionality of the surveillance regime and the criminal defamation provision in India. Vrinda has also advised and represented clients in cases involving website blocking, defamation, and sedition. Vrinda is a Rhodes Scholar, who graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters in Law (BCL) and a Masters in Public Policy (MPP), and received her undergraduate law degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Cecylia is a software developer at Tor Project where she focuses on developing tools to circumvent censorship and empowering all users to access the Tor network. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2018, and continues to participate in the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Research Lab as a visiting researcher. As a graduate student, she researched censorship circumvention techniques that resist powerful machine-learning capable censors, as well as the usability of privacy tools. She currently serves as an advising director of Open Privacy, a non-profit organization working on the development of privacy technologies that empower communities and enable consent. She also helped initiate, organize, and currently serves as the chair of the artifact committee for the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), the goal of which is to support and promote the public distribution of source code and data sets for privacy research.

Arturo co-founded the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) in 2011 and has since served as its Project Lead and core engineer. He previously worked with the Tor Project as a developer and created a number of other free software projects that promote human rights, such as GlobaLeaks. He also co-founded and served as the Vice-President of the Hermes Center for Digital Human Rights. Arturo studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Università di Roma “La Sapienza”.