This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since at least 2009—when the Arab Spring illustrated the possibilities, and the vulnerabilities, of online democracy and human rights activism—digital security trainers and experts have aided human rights activists in…
In this episode we talk to Nanjira Sambuli about technology, philanthropy and civil society. Nanjira is a researcher, policy analyst and advocacy strategist based in Nairobi, Kenya and in a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On March 1, 1990, the US Secret Service executed a search warrant on Steve Jackson Games, a game and publishing company in Austin, Texas, and took its computers and floppy disks. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In this series, we collaborate with other human rights, civil rights, and civil society organizations under the umbrella of the US Human Rights Network to advance the utility of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofits, as well as businesses, universities, and governmental entities, are deeply intertwined with the communities we serve. No action we take is in isolation. Even seemingly “neutral” actions can perpetuate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated existing inequities around the world, reinforced by violence. To illustrate the long history of oppression, each speaker began with examples of some of the underlying…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Adán Vez Lira, a prominent defender of an ecological reserve in Mexico, was shot while riding his motorcycle in April. Four years earlier, the renowned activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead in her…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What does accountability in philanthropy look like today? This was a particularly salient question at the Just Transition Forum, a powerful cross-sector convening hosted by the Building Equity and Alignment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Located two-and-a-half hours southwest of Washington, D.C., on Virginia’s Valley Pike, the city of Staunton, Virginia, was founded in 1747. In 1856, the future twentieth-eighth president, Woodrow Wilson, was born…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea While the battle over privacy is everywhere in American life, it’s actually a relatively new concept…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There is a lot of speculation right now about what is going on in rural America. The perspectives vary wildly from the Hunger Games to the Hallmark Channel—abject poverty and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The recent success of digitally-coordinated protest movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has sparked a wave of interest in the potential for technology to transform the ways in which…