Dia Kayyali

Dia Kayyali is a technology and human rights consultant, and a community organizer. As a leader in the content moderation and platform accountability space, and a surveillance and security specialist, Dia’s work has focused on the real-life impact of policy decisions made by lawmakers and technology companies, with a particular focus on impacts in global majority countries and a decolonial, antiracist, transfeminist perspective. They have cultivated global solidarity to push back and improve the impact of policies on vulnerable communities, from LGBTQIA+ people to religious minorities, through skill sharing and joint campaigns and open letters. They have also advocated for human rights extensively directly with policymakers in the United States, European Union, and globally, as well as publishing research, and garnering press attention on these issues. They previously served as a Senior Case and Policy Officer at the Oversight Board (aka the Facebook Oversight Board), Policy Director at Mnemonic, the umbrella organization for Syrian Archive, Yemeni Archive, and Sudanese Archive, and Tech + Advocacy Program Manager at WITNESS, and activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dia is a member of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network and a guardrail advisor the De-Center. They earned their Juris Doctorate from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and their Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology from University of California Berkeley.