Esra’a Al Shafei

Esra'a Al Shafei is the founding director of Majal, a network of online platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices in West Asia and North Africa. She’s also the founder of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map that exposes the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry. Esra’a currently serves on the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit which hosts Wikipedia. She is also on the Board of the Tor Project, developers of one of the world’s strongest tools for privacy and freedom online, and Mastodon, a free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. Most recently, she is a Senior Fellow with the Mozilla Foundation.