People

  • Kosta Grammatis

    Founder & Chief Optimist
    Kosta has researched at and consulted for the MIT Media Labs and has worked on projects ranging from bionic eyes, satellites, spacecraft, and vision testing systems for developing countries. Projects he has worked on have been awarded TIME’s best invention of 2009, Vodaphone’s Wireless Innovation Award, and won the MIT Global Challenge and a Google Innovation Grant. He has spoken at TEDx, the United Nations, and numerous space and communications conferences. He started A Human Right because he believes the Internet is a tool that helps people to help themselves.

  • Abby Goldberg

    Director of Strategic Partnerships
    Abby is an advocate and strategist for the advancement of human rights and gender equality. Named by GovFresh as one of the Top 100 Women in Politics & Technology, Abby has been a founding member of the Global Justice Center, All Day Buffet, and Digital Democracy. She worked on the development of the first mobile based tool for coordinating responses to gender based violence in Haiti's camps and has spoken widely on international justice, women's equality, and innovative strategies for enforcement of women's equality across the globe. Most recently, she has served as a consultant to UN Women, Nike and Global Citizen Year, the New Media Advocacy Project, and the Nuru Project spearheading programming initiatives, curriculum development, and global campaigns.

  • Edward Perkins

    Master Twitterer & Community Manager
    Edward has worked on issues ranging from homelessness to Canadian First Nation land claims. His specialities include social media, speech writing, research, and futures consulting. As an entrepreneur and professional translator, he has spearheaded multilingual community management projects for governments, multinational companies, and political causes. He resides in London, where he splits his time between A Human Right, music, and translation.

  • Stephen Chen

    Business Development
    Stephen specializes in emerging markets & infrastructure investment banking at Oppenheimer Investments. Previously he was a VP at JP Morgan, and a VP of Economics at Baer Stearns. He’s also served as an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York. He provides counsel to governments, corporations, and industry on accessing capital markets and has advised on $6 billion in aggregate transactions over the last 5 years. He has been awarded “Buy Side Innovation of the Year” by The Banker and “Best Risk Analyt- ics Initiative of the Year” by American Financial Technology Awards.

  • Colin Doylend

    Director, A Human Right Canada
    Colin has spent over ten years gaining experience and knowledge in all levels of government, business and First Nation communities. His passion for technology and social ventures has created a network of affirmed relationships with Aboriginal community and business leaders in Canada. Those connections have allowed Colin to facili- tate multi-million dollar green energy developments and economic partnerships an behalf of and with the First Nations people of Canada. Colin is the Director of A Human Right Canada.

  • Tom Serres

    Fundraising Aficionado
    Tom was named a 2009 rising political star by Politics Magazine, and awarded the title of “40 under 40” in 2009 by the New Leaders Council. He is a seasoned technology professional, special- izing in digital strategy. He has consulted for political campaigns, from the smallest levels of government to federal and statewide offices, cor- porations, and non-profits. In 2009, he launched Rally.org, which streamlines the online fundrais- ing process. The company earned the 2011 Reed Award for Best Online Fundraising Tool.

Advisors

  • Thomas Curran

    CTO, Deutsche Telekom

  • David Drucker

    Founder, WildBlue

    Co-Founder, Echostar

  • Daniel Faber

    Former President, Canadian Space Society

  • Chérif Ghaly

    United Nations

    Chief, Technical Coordination and Partnerships (UNOCHA)
    Chair, Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (UNOCHA)

  • John Herrington

    NASA

    Astronaut

    First Native American in Space

  • Jan King

    Vice President, Qualcomm

    Vice President, Space Technology for STL

  • Patrick Lanthier

    Co-Founder/Chairman, Emergency Communications Leadership & Innovation Center (eCLIC), Carnegie Mellon University-Silicon Valley

  • Noah Samara

    Founder, XM Radio

    Founder, 1Worldspace Satellite Radio

  • Nigel Seale

    Founder, Earth Day International

  • Tiffany Shlain

    Film Maker

    Founder, Webby Awards

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