Emma Lacey-Bordeaux

Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is a writer and journalist working for CNN based in Washington D.C.
At a moment of unparalleled political turmoil in the United States, she helps to ensure the integrity of CNN’s political coverage

Working with reporters and producers, in the roll of Row Editor, Emma scrutinizes CNN’s reporting before it gets published on any platform to CNN’s global audience of millions online, on TV and across social and third-party platforms.

Throughout her decade at the company, Emma has reported and produced award-winning multimedia content, breaking news on numerous stories concerning America's justice system, gun laws and immigration system. She's covered Presidential elections, major protests and always seeks out the unexplored, human angles to the giant stories capturing the world’s attention.

Compassion and curiosity drive Emma’s journalist interests and passions. She's lived in various cities in the United States and around the globe and loves few things more than a leisurely dinner with new friends. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Non-Fiction from the University of Georgia and recently released a groundbreaking documentary exploring how restrictive notions of masculinity play out in America’s prisons. She’s also a passionate advocate of cross cultural exchanges and dialogues, especially in this unique and tumultuous global moment of challenge and interconnectedness. Emma has delivered talks on media at home in the United States and in countries including Estonia, Ukraine and Serbia. She’s hosted journalists from South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine and Georgia and advises international new media start-ups and journalism associations in her spare time. Emma lives in DC with her husband and their dog, Scout, and two cats. She loves cooking, eating, biking and following her boundless curiosity to new delights.

Kirsten Han, New Naratif

Kirsten Han is a Singaporean freelance journalist and Editor-in-Chief of New Naratif, a platform for Southeast Asian journalism, research, art and community-building. Her work often revolves around the themes of social justice, human rights, politics and democracy. Her bylines have appeared in publications like The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Asia Times and Southeast Asia Globe, covering a range of issues such as labour exploitation, LGBT equality and free speech. Kirsten is also a founding member of We Believe in Second Chances, a group advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in Singapore.

Mushon zer-Aviv

Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in Tel Aviv. His work and writing explore the boundaries of interface and the biases of techno-culture as they are redrawn through politics, design and networks. Among Mushon’s collaborations, he is the VP of UX and Design at Localize.city – an insight platform merging Urbanism and algorithms; he’s the CO-founder of Shual.com – a foxy design studio; YouAreNotHere.org – a tour of Gaza through the streets of Tel Aviv; Kriegspiel – a computer game version of the Situationist Game of War; the Turing Normalizing Machine – exploring algorithmic prejudice; the AdNauseam extension – clicking ads so you don’t have to; and multiple government transparency and civic participation initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop; Mushon also designed the maps for Waze.com. Mushon is an alumni of Eyebeam – an art and technology center in New York. He teaches digital media as a senior faculty member at Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. Previously he taught new media research at NYU and Open Source design at Parsons the New School of Design and in Bezalel Academy of Art & Design.

Karolina Grzywnowicz

Karolina Grzywnowicz is a visual artist, using an interdisciplinary approach. Her recent works deal with plants in social and political context, often of violent nature. Her practice is research-based, making use of archival materials, interviews, oral history and bibliographic records. She is looking for parallels between historical events and contemporary social and political discourses driven by urgent issues of violence, exile, and migration. She graduated from Jagiellonian University and is a grand holder of a scholarship of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland and European Cultural Foundation. Her works were shown in Zachęta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw); BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice; BWA Sokół Gallery of Contemporary Art (Nowy Sącz); WRO Art Center (Wroclaw) and in galleries in Leipzig, Berlin and Eindhoven. She lives and works in Berlin.

Eva Constantaras

Eva Constantaras is a data journalist specialized in building data journalism teams in developing countries. These teams that have reported from across Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and East Africa on topics ranging from displacement and kidnapping by organized crime networks to extractive industries and public health. As a Google Data Journalism Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow, she developed a course for investigative and data journalism in high-risk environments.

Irene Caselli

Irene Caselli is a freelance multimedia journalist with experience in print and broadcasting. She reports for the BBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Univisión, and is a contributing editor for Index on Censorship magazine. After a decade in Latin America, she is now based in Italy. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and German, and has intermediate French and Portuguese. She was the BBC correspondent in Venezuela when Hugo Chávez died. She also worked for the BBC in Argentina and Ecuador as a correspondent, and in London as a producer. Her interests include violence and insecurity, human rights, women, environment, health, and culture.

Twitter: @irenecaselli
Instagram: @icaselli

Tomasz Sulewski

Currently the Social Media Lead for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa in the 3M company, responsible for the strategy and execution of digital campaigns for all the business groups (both B2B and B2C). Prior to that, he worked as a Corporate Projects Director at Orange Polska. He was an initiator and a producer of a couple of hundreds of marketing campaigns, mainly the digital ones. He has been working in the fields of communications and PR for over a dozen years. Tomasz is a member of SocialMedia.org, an elite organization that gathers social media leaders of the biggest global brands. He has been on the jury of the Young Creatives Media and Innovation Ad. His work was recognized by an EFFIE, Golden Arrow, Innovations Awards, Media Trendy, MIXX Awards and others. He also works as a coach and teaches the use of new technologies in communications, management, fundraising, and branding of an organization. He used to be a scoutmaster for the Scouting Association of the Republic of Poland, and between 2006 and 2008 was their communications lead and a spokesperson for the organization.

Michał Wolniak

Michał Wolniak has been working in Communications for almost 20 years. He founded the Heureka group that after 2013 was merged with the global VML network. As a Chief Strategy Officer, he deals with creating marketing strategies for the EMEA region as well as globally. He leads consulting projects aiming at digitization of mid and big size businesses through disruptive and innovative solutions. Together with the VML team he won over 100 prizes and got recognition at the most important Advertising Festivals. He chairs the jury of Innovation Ad and Effie and is a part of the MIXX chapter, and also a co-founder of the app Nightly. Michał loves theatre and is a serial father (quadruple!).

Ewa Ewart

Ewa Ewart is a journalist and an award-winning filmmaker who specializes in groundbreaking and influential documentaries. She was born and raised in Poland, but she has spent most of her career based at the BBC TV in London, England. She has traveled and worked in many countries, producing and directing programmes ranging from investigations, political to social observational documentaries.
Her films have revealed new information about issues such as corruption in Boris Yeltsin’s Russia, the secret prison camps in North Korea, civil war in Colombia or secret and illegal CIA extraordinary rendition programme for people suspected of terrorism.

Włodzimierz Nowak

Reporter, for the last 5 years he managed “Duży Format” - reporters magazine published by Polish biggest liberal newspaper and media outlet. His work has been recognized with a German George Dehio Cultural Awards (2010), Polish-German Journalist Prize 2009 and an SDP Kazimierz Dziewanowski Prize (2005) for a series of reportages from Belarus. His reporters’ books include “Obwód głowy” (in the finals of the Polish prestigious literary award - Nike 2008), “Serce narodu koło przystanku” (in the finals of the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage 2009), „Niemiec. Wszystkie ucieczki Zygfryda” (nominated for Nike 2017), „Dżej Dżej. Rozmowy z Jackiem Jaśkowiakiem, prezydentem Poznania” (2017, with Violetta Szostak as a co-author).

Grzegorz Piechota

As a researcher at University of Oxford (UK) and Harvard Business School (USA), Grzegorz Piechota studies technology-enabled disruption patterns across industries, including news media. His research work at the HBS focuses on digital business model innovations. His project at Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism examines the impact of digital platforms on paid content models of news organisations. In addition, Piechota serves as a digital strategy adviser for Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza (Agora) and consults with media companies worldwide. He is a member of the INMA Board of Directors and is a past president of INMA’s Europe Division. He is an active member of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, the Online News Association, the Global Editors Network. Piechota is an experienced editor and news media executive. He began his career at Gazeta Wyborcza in 1996 as a reporter in one of the smallest local offices rising to a news editor and a vice-president of Agora Foundation. A 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Piechota explored the transformation of the media business and the future of work in creative industries. His recently published research reports include "Evaluating Distributed Content in the News Media Ecosystem” (INMA, April 2016), "The Facebook-Media Relationship Status: It's Complicated" (INMA, October 2016), and “Reality check: making money with Facebook. The digital business strategy of news publishers” (WAN-IFRA, September 2017). Piechota graduated in law. He lives in Oxford in the United Kingdom with his wife and two children. He speaks fluent English, Russian, and Polish.

Dominika Bychawska-Siniarska

Dominika Bychawska-Siniarska – prawniczka, działaczka społeczna.

W 2005 r. skończyła studia prawnicza, w 2007 r. ukończyła studia podyplomowe w Kolegium Europejskie w Natolinie. W latach 2007-2009 pracowała jako prawnik w Europejskim Trybunale Praw Człowieka. Od 2008 r. jest ]Dyrektorkom Obserwatorium Wolności Mediów, jednego z programów Helsińskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka W latach 2010-2014 była członkiem Advisory Panel Agencji Praw Podstawowych Unii Europejskiej. Od 2016 r. pełni funkcję Członka Zarządu Helsińskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka[3] oraz Sekretarza Zarządu European Implementation Network.

Jest autorką cotygodniowej rubryki poświęconej orzecznictwu Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka w dodatku "Prawnik" do Dziennika Gazety Prawnej. Jest autorką licznych artykułów naukowych i popularnonaukowych poświęconych wolności słowa. W 2017 r. ukazał się podręcznik Rady Europy jej autorstwa pt. Protecting the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights.

W 2013 r., za zasługi dla wolności słowa, została odznaczona nagrodą Artykułu 54 Konstytucji przyznawaną przez Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich.