Joana Varon

Joana Varon

Founder Executive Directress
Creative Chaos Catalyst

Founder Executive Directress Creative Chaos Catalyst at Coding Rights, researcher affiliated to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and member of the 2022-2023 cohort of the Latin American Hub of the Feminist Research Network of Artificial Inteligece – f<A+i>r .Brazilian, with Colombian ancestry she is engaged in several international networks of schoolars and activists, where she is always focused on bringing Latin American perspectives in the search of feminist techno-political frameworks for human rights based development, deployment and usages of technologies. With that goal, she is co-creator of several creative projects operating in the interplay between activism, arts and technologies, such as cartografiasdainternet.org, transfeministech.org, museamami.org, chupadados.com, #safersisters, Safer Nudes, protestos.org, Net of Rights and freenetfilm.org. She is also part of the groups of researchers who kick-started the working group on Human Rights Considerations for Standards and Protocols at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). She was also fellow on Human Rights and Technologies at the Carr Center from Harvard Kennedy School and is alumni at Mozilla Foundation as former Media Fellow and at the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA)