Dia Kayyali
Dia Kayyali (they/them) served most recently as Associate Director of Advocacy at Mnemonic, the umbrella organization for Syrian Archive, Yemeni Archive, Sudanese Archive, and Ukrainian Archive. In their role, Dia focused on the real-life impact of decisions made by lawmakers and technology companies about content moderation and related topics. Previously, Dia worked at WITNESS and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, focusing on free expression, surveillance, digital security, and content moderation. Dia served as co-chair for the Advisory Network to the Christchurch Call for two years and is on the Advisory Board for OnlineCensorship.org and the TRUE (Trust in User Evidence) Project initiated by Prof. Yvonne McDermot at Swansea University. They graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctorate from University of California Hastings College of the Law and received their BA in Anthropology magna cum laude from UC Berkeley, California.