Sarah Sakha is a Public Policy Manager with Meta’s Community Engagement and Advocacy team for the Africa, Middle East, and Turkey region. She focuses on the responsiveness of AI-powered systems to the needs of high-risk communities in the MENA region, as well as the impacts of digital surveillance. Previously, she worked on the localization and decolonization of humanitarian policy at the International Rescue Committee, and on introducing a lens of equity and justice in “data for good” grantmaking at the Rockefeller Foundation. She brings extensive research and writing experience, from examining AI ethics, power, and “public interest” tech, to the histories of Iranian diaspora communities. She holds a BA in International Affairs from Princeton University and a MA in Human Rights Policy with a focus in tech and media from Columbia University and. She is currently on assignment with Meta as a contractor with Magnit.