APC's new board of directors: Neema Iyer

Neema Iyer is a digital artist, technologist and coach working globally and living in Sydney. Iyer is an epidemiologist by training. She has worked on a number of large-scale research initiatives and managed several multi-country, multistakeholder projects, across the world, with a majority focused on the African continent. She is the founder of Pollicy, an award-winning feminist collective based out of Kampala, Uganda working on data and digital rights and inclusion. She currently serves on Meta’s Global Women’s Safety Advisory Board. She was also recently a Practitioner Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab and Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at Mozilla Foundation. She was also on the 2021 Quartz Africa Innovators list. She supports women entrepreneurs through creative leadership to build joyful and resilient businesses.