We’ve started to expand our Board of Advisors for The Meta-Activism Project (MAP), and we’ll be posting their bios on the site over the next few days [I'll be posting here to direct you that way!]
Esra joins us from the ground. She is based in Bahrain, is the founder of Mideast Youth, an all-volunteer organization that produces slick web sites and content for human rights campaigns across the Middle East. Though only in her early twenties, she has been a TED and Echoing Green fellow and, in 2008, received the Berkman Center for Internet and Society’s first award for “outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society”.
Though the Meta-Activism Project focuses on the digital activism idea space, it is important that we always connect our work back to activists on the ground. Esra’a fills this roles excellently. She has experience with a broad range of campaigns from a variety of countries from Egypt and Iran to Israel, defending the rights of religious and ethnic minorities and migrants.
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