TEAM
Laurence is Co-Director of Weaving Liberation. She co-founded and co-led the decolonising process as part of her role as Racial and Social Justice Lead at the Digital Freedom Fund (DFF). She designed and coordinated the decolonising the digital rights field in Europe blueprint.
Laurence Meyer
Adelaide is the Operations Lead at Weaving Liberation, where she is dedicated to creating and aligning operational frameworks and practices with the organisation’s vision for digital justice. She is committed to addressing and dismantling existing structural issues, and to supporting and organising with the communities most harshly affected by these issues. Before joining Weaving Liberation, Adelaide supported the Digital Rights for All project at DFF. She has been an advocate for anti-racism in the EU and for youth engagement. She is also involved in several civil society initiatives in Europe and Africa.
Adelaide Hirwe
Salmana is Co-Director of Weaving Liberation. She was a core participant of the decolonising process. Salmana is committed to advancing changes that address existing power dynamics, structures and politics in the funding sector. She supports organisations on strategy, fundraising and organisational development.
Salmana Ahmed
Esra is Movement Doula at Weaving Liberation. She has a background in social justice organising and facilitation. She was a core participant of the decolonising process. Esra is also Co-Director of Justice, Equity and Technology Project (JET).
Esra Özkan
Ari is the Communications Lead at Weaving Liberation. Her work draws on a background in higher education, cultural programming, and content strategy to interrogate the relationship between culture and public knowledge, using it as a tool for critical discourse. Ari's praxis is grounded in over a decade of hands-on experience curating and organizing public programming for grassroots cultural organisations and working within community-based electronic music scenes as a practitioner, educator, radio host, and events curator.
Ari Robey-Lawrence
Mumbi is the Digital Justice Fund Lead, with experience as a participatory grantmaking practitioner, advisor and facilitator. They co-founded the Grassroots Movements Fund, advised on BLMUK’s redistribution to Black led community groups and currently advise on the Good Ancestor Movement Accountability Circle. Their community activism has been rooted in anti-racist movements, migrant justice struggles, and Black and African Feminist praxis.
Mumbi Natasha Nkonde
Accountability Committee
Anasuya is co-director and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to centre the knowledges of marginalised communities (the minoritised majority of the world) online. She has led initiatives across the global South, and internationally for over 25 years, to collectively create feminist presents and futures of love, justice, and liberation. She is a co-founder and advisor to Numun Fund, advisor to the Flickr Foundation, the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and the former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women.
Anasuya Sengupta
Luam Kidane's work as a researcher and strategist on climate, economics and food sovereignty has spanned across Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Luam has held both institutional and consultant positions for a number of think tanks, academic institutions and funds. Her current research focuses on the political economy of the green transition across the Global South.
Luam Kidane
Joan Monique Steijns is a human rights and technology expert, senior research fellow at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), and is engaged with NJCM, the Dutch Section of International Commission of Jurists. She stepped down as chair to focus on (CONNECTME@) Human Rights & Technology Community, dedicated to fighting against the use of harmful AI technologies. Monique's expertise is also drawn from her law studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she specialised in Information Law at the Institute for Information Law (IVIR). She has also worked as a legal and policy advisor on human rights at the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and was an expert member of the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for Human Rights.
