When at ICANN, she engaged as a Human Rights Officer at Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) whereby she coordinated digital rights, capacity building and advocacy campaigns in addition to projects, building up an array of experience in the field of human rights on a national, regional as well as international level. Her focus lied mostly, on a freedom of expression project related to hate speech in the MENA, Data Visualization and the importance of verification in research and documentation, and finally the export of surveillance tools from European based corporations to the Gulf. Elsa was also active for several years in Lebanese civil society starting with grassroots activism in student movements and is now an organizer in the diaspora in parallel to her work in philanthropy with Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism. | When at ICANN, she engaged as a Human Rights Officer at Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) whereby she coordinated digital rights, capacity building and advocacy campaigns in addition to projects, building up an array of experience in the field of human rights on a national, regional as well as international level. Her focus lied mostly, on a freedom of expression project related to hate speech in the MENA, Data Visualization and the importance of verification in research and documentation, and finally the export of surveillance tools from European based corporations to the Gulf. Elsa was also active for several years in Lebanese civil society starting with grassroots activism in student movements and is now an organizer in the diaspora in parallel to her work in philanthropy with Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism. |