Brian Fishman
Brian Fishman is a co-founder of Cinder, a leading Trust & Safety operations platform. Prior to Cinder, Fishman led Facebook’s work countering terrorist organizations and hate groups.
Fishman is the author of The Master Plan: ISIS: al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory (Yale University Press, 2016), which is based on a pathbreaking course he taught at West Point in 2008 about the Islamic State of Iraq's vision for governance. In 2014, the Islamic State referred to him personally as an enemy.
Prior to Facebook, Fishman served as the director of research at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy (West Point); conceived and led Palantir Technologies’ disaster relief program; worked in-house at New America, a think tank; and worked on Capitol Hill. He is the author of numerous reports and articles regarding terrorism and, in addition to West Point, has taught as an adjunct at Columbia University and Georgetown University. Fishman maintains affiliations with the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, New America, and Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation
Anjum Rahman
Anjum Rahman was a founding member of the Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand – an organisation formed in 1990 to bring Muslim women together and represent their concerns – and was their media spokesperson until 2022. She is also a founding member of Shama Ethnic Women’s Trust and served as a trustee on its board from 2002 until 2019. Following the Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019, Rahman was a spokesperson for the Muslim community. In response to the attacks, Rahman established the organisation Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono to build belonging and inclusion through the development of cross-sector community networks. Rahman is currently on the governing council of InternetNZ and is a member of international committees dealing with violent extremist content online, having been the co-chair of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network and a member of the Independent Advisory Committee of the Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism. In the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Rahman was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to ethnic communities and women; she was also shortlisted for the New Zealander of the Year Award.
Anne Craanen
Anne Craanen is a researcher at Swansea University and a member of the VOX-Pol Network. Her research focusses on terrorist use of the internet, rule of law responses, and the role of gender in terrorism and violent extremism. Anne has worked on initiatives related to tech policy, regulation, and ethical research as well as advised governments, tech companies, and regulators on these issues. Anne has presented her work to various stakeholders, including the European Internet Forum (EUIF), UNOCT, the Global Coalition Against Daesh, and national governments, including Canada, the Netherlands, and others. Anne is an Affiliate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT). She also used to be the Research Manager at Tech Against Terrorism, as well as having worked at Artis International, Dataminr, and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR).
Dia Kayyali
Dia Kayyali is a member of the Core Committee of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, a technology and human rights consultant, and a community organizer. As a leader in the content moderation and platform accountability space, 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. 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 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.