Our Team
We are a team of archivists, technologists, and researchers. We collaborate with organizations around the world to create responsive and secure archiving technologies.
Natalie Cadranel
Founder & Executive Director
Natalie Cadranel is an archivist, ethnographer, and technologist with over two decades of experience working at the nexus of human rights, policy, and technology. As part of her work to develop secure, responsive FLOSS tools and resources to preserve and verify mobile media, she also co-created the Human Rights Centered Design Methodology and Curriculum, a framework for ethical and inclusive technology development and serves as an advisor to various NGOs and Universities. She holds a Masters of Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley’s School of Information and was a Stanford PACS Digital Civil Society Lab fellow.
Eliot Bendinelli
Research & Strategy Director
Eliot Bendinelli is a digital rights advocate and technologist. Previously Programme Director at Privacy International, he has conducted impactful technical research and led successful advocacy efforts on security and privacy issues. A strong open source advocate and musician actively releasing music, Eliot holds an MA in International Relations and Geopolitics from the IEP Science Po Toulouse and CS degree from University Lyon 1.
Lauren Salim
Program Director
Lauren is an avid reader, swimmer, and human rights advocate based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research interests include online harms, public participation rights, and access to information. She received her Masters in Human Rights from the University of London where her research focused on advocacy efforts for African Nova Scotians' rights to participate in public affairs and land title issues. She was previously awarded a Bachelors in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University.
Claire August
Legal Research Specialist
Claire is an open source researcher with experience in conflict monitoring, human rights/humanitarian investigations, civilian protection, and new technologies. She is also a current LLM candidate with a focus on tech & evidence in international law.
Rocío Tiseyra
Development Manager
Rocío is a resource specialist, with 20 years of experience across economic translation, gender equality and urbanism, and climate innovation. A systems and operations nerd, her work in open source tech builds on this, always insisting that systems should not be built on unpaid labor. She holds an MSc in Development Studies and a BSc in Social Anthropology, both from the LSE.
David Aragort
Digital Rights Advocate
David is a Venezuelan digital rights advocate and researcher working at the intersection of technology, democracy, and human rights, with a focus on the internet, freedom of expression, and digital authoritarianism. He actively collaborates with organizations that protect freedom, democracy, and human rights regionally and globally. David has also been a Democracy Tech Fellow of the Alliance of Democracies, Early Career Fellow of the Internet Society, and Open Internet Leader for Democracy with the Center for International Media Assistance.
Angélica Pagés
UX/UI Designer
Angélica is a UX/UI designer, photographer and front-end developer. She is also a community manager at Argentina-based nonprofit Fundación Todavía es Tiempo. Her passion is to help others fight against poverty, misinformation, and to create a safe space where history can be preserved for the next generations.
Upul Weerasinghe
Product Lead
Upul is a product delivery specialist with over 25 years of experience spanning engineering, quality assurance, business analysis, and project management. He holds a BSc from London Metropolitan University and an MBA from the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology.
Prathieshna Vekneswaran
Technical Lead
Prathieshna is the Technical Lead at OpenArchive, leading technical R&D for the Save mobile ecosystem. With 10+ years of experience across healthcare, e-commerce, and logistics, he specialises in building secure, scalable, and high-performance mobile applications for complex enterprise environments.
Navoda Keerthirathna
Senior Mobile Developer
Navoda is a Senior Mobile Developer at Save with over 6 years of experience in mobile application development. She has worked across e-commerce, industrial, and fintech domains, specialising in native iOS and Android development. She also has experience with hybrid technologies such as Flutter and React Native, and focuses on building reliable, scalable mobile applications for production environments.
Our Advisors
Harlo Holmes
Chief Security Programs Officer, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Harlo is the Chief Security Programs Officer of Newsroom Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organizations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer, and activist; and contributes regularly to the open source mobile security collective The Guardian Project.
Nicole Martin
Associate Director of Archives, Human Rights Watch
Nicole is also the Associate Director of Information Management at Human Rights Watch and established the organization's first digital archive. Nicole is the former Associate Director of New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program and an Adjunct Professor of the Digital Preservation and Handling Complex Media courses. Past jobs include Democracy Now! archivist, and consultant for Deep Dish Television, Human Rights Foundation, and the Brooklyn Public Library.
Beatrice Martini
Education Coordinator
Beatrice is the Education and Communities Lead for the Access Now Digital Security Helpline. Previously, she led the Human Rights Technology program at Aspiration and worked at the Open Knowledge Foundation and on several projects leveraging open source technology in support of justice and rights endeavors. She has also been a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, exploring the implications of Internet infrastructure design on human rights, and serves in a formal advisory role with the Center for the Cultivation of Technology and OpenArchive.
Yvonne Ng
Archives Program Manager, WITNESS
Yvonne is an audiovisual archivist and a Senior Program Manager at WITNESS, where she trains and supports people to archive and preserve their human rights documentation. She currently serves on the Board of the CAW Collective and on the steering committee of the Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI). In 2024, Yvonne received the Alan Stark Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists in recognition of her contributions to the work of moving image archives and AMIA. Yvonne holds an M.A in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University.
Kurt Opsahl
Associate General Counsel, Filecoin Foundation
Kurt Opsahl is the Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy at the Filecoin Foundation. He was formerly the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. Opsahl is the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project, and is representing several companies who are challenging National Security Letters. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters. For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. From 2014 to 2022, Opsahl served on the USENIX Board of Directors. Opsahl is a member of the Filecoin Foundation Advisory Board and the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee's Technical Advisory Council.
Cooper Quintin
Senior Staff Technologist, EFF
Cooper is a security researcher and Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has worked on projects such as Privacy Badger, Rayhunter, and analysis of state- sponsored malware. He has also performed security trainings for activists, nonprofit workers and ordinary folks around the world. He previously built websites for nonprofits, such as Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network.
Caroline Sinders
Designer & Researcher
Caroline is an award winning critical designer, researcher, and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence, intersectional justice, systems design, harm, and politics in digital conversational spaces and technology platforms. She has worked with the United Nations, Amnesty International, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School, Google's PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group), Ars Electronica's AI Lab, the Weizenbaum Institute, the Mozilla Foundation, Pioneer Works, Eyebeam, Ars Electronica, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern, the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, Telematic Media Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA PS1, LABoral, Wired, Slate, Hyperallergic, Clot Magazine, Quartz, the Channels Festival, and others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Seamus Tuohy
Security Practitioner, Researcher, & Strategist
Seamus Tuohy is a security practitioner, researcher, and strategist specializing in collaborative defense for civil society. His strategic work includes launching Human Rights Watch's information security program, managing a $42 million grant portfolio for digital safety and Internet freedom programs, and co-authoring the SAFETAG organizational security risk assessment framework. His technical work spans security training and assessments for at-risk communities worldwide, developing security and censorship circumvention technology, and extensive technical investigations of repressive technologies, with published reports on tools for state control in China and North Korea.
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OpenArchive is an experienced research and development nonprofit organization dedicated to the ethical collection and long-term preservation of mobile media. We work to better preserve media by creating tools, guides, and workshops.
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