Who we are

Lawyer from Universidad de Los Andes and Master in Media and Communication Governance from the London School of Economics. Former director of public policy for Twitter for Spanish-speaking Latin America; former director of the Foundation for Press Freedom. Member of TikTok's advisory board on security and trust in Latin America. Private consultant and producer of opinion and analysis content.

Master in Politics and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Gothenburg. Specialist in State, Public Policy and Development from Universidad de los Andes. Professional in International Relations from Universidad del Rosario. With experience in project management, coordination of social development projects and work with vulnerable populations. She has worked as an advisor at the Colombian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications.

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Consultant and Data Scientist specialising in identifying signals of social coordination. "Knight Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Data, Democracy and Policy at George Washington University. Former fellow at the Institute for Data and Computer Science at the University of Miami. His research includes the development of methods for identifying signals of social coordination, political polarisation and content dissemination among different social networks and has been published - in co-authorship - in scientific journals such as Science and Nature. He holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Miami.

Master's degree in Analysis of Contemporary Political, Economic and International Problems from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Specialist in strategic communications and framing analysis. She has worked as a communications consultant in the private and media sectors. She is a social communicator and journalist from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia.

Lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with emphasis in human rights and social justice. He was editor of several publications of Grupo Semana and has been a contributor to the newspaper El Espectador and the portal Relatto. He has expertise in the area of freedom of expression. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in creative writing at Universidad Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires.

Mariana is an economist and political scientist from the Universidad de los Andes with a master's degree in public policy from the Hertie School in Berlin. Previously she was project leader and researcher at the Observatory of Democracy at the University of the Andes. She has experience in quantitative and qualitative research on public opinion issues. She also has experience in the evaluation of international cooperation projects. Her areas of interest are issues related to civil society, public opinion, gender and the environment.

Professional in Finance and International Trade from the Universidad del Rosario. Specialist in International Cooperation and Project Management for Development from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she led budgetary and planning issues at the level of public investment projects and internal institutional management, as well as the management and monitoring of the implementation of social and economic development projects in Colombia's border areas.

Political scientist and Government and Public Affairs professional from the Universidad de los Andes. She is currently working as a Junior Researcher. She has participated in projects related to gender, public policies on healthy eating and social network monitoring. She has experience in data analysis related to public debate, quantitative and qualitative methods with application in public policy and impact evaluation.

Anthropologist from the Universidad de los Andes with an academic option in Journalism and History. She is currently a junior researcher at Linterna Verde. She has a diploma in specialized software for researchers in Social Sciences. She has experience in pedagogy, sociocultural research and digital research.

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Anthropologist and philosopher from Universidad de Los Andes with a master's degree in Digital Culture and Society from King's College London. Specialist in qualitative and quantitative digital analysis methods, and with experience in communications for civil society, graphic design and illustration. He worked as a researcher at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Interested in designing digital solutions for civil society organizations, arts and cultural institutions.

Master's degree in Conference Interpreting from Heidelberg University in Germany. Professional communicator with expertise in the area of freedom of expression and media development. She is doing a two-month professional stay at Linterna Verde as part of a scholarship from the German Institute for Foreign Affairs (ifa). In Germany she works at the DW Akademie.

Trainee lawyer from Universidad del Norte interested in private and international law and its challenges in the digital era. She has experience in strategic litigation, writing skills and socio-legal research and knowledge in intellectual property. Her interests extend to journalism, public opinion, gender issues and art.

Industrial engineer from Universidad de San Buenaventura. She is a specialist in Occupational Health and Safety Management from Universidad Santiago de Cali. She has experience as an internal auditor of integrated management systems and occupational health and safety system. She is currently responsible for the occupational health and safety management system at Linterna Verde.

Public Accountant from Universidad Santo Tomás. He has experience advising Colombian and Brazilian non-profit organizations on tax, financial and international cooperation matters, with extensive experience as a tax auditor and external auditor. CEO of the accounting community GDC Global.