I am a creative technologist passionate about creating safer digital futures. I have 5 years experience in digital sociology, tech policy, and strategic communications. I am currently a TikTok Live Policy Manager at TikTok, exploring how policy can make the weird wide web of livestreams safer for users in the EMEA region. Prior to this I was a Product Policy Manager for the SubSaharan African region at TikTok, covering 46 countries. Here, I lead safety efforts to keep TikTok users in the region safe, localising global policies to the regional context(s) and handling high risk regional policy escalations.
I have always been passionate about internet safety, especially for marginalised communities. Hence, I cut my internet safety teeth as a researcher at Pollicy working on online harms like disinformation, misinformation and online harassment. As a Tech Policy fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, I developed a strategy African policymakers could use to deal with gendered online violence in Africa. As a freelance correspondent, I covered issues at the intersection of women’s rights and digital inclusion. Through my career, here are some of the skills I have gained :
✨ Policy Development & Analysis
✨ Complex Problem Solving
✨Quantitative & Qualitative Research
✨ Project Management
✨ Risk Management
✨ Data Analysis
✨ Public Speaking
✨Commissioned by Meta to co-deveop an inclusive design guide for tech policy professionals.
✨Developed a 10 point policy strategy to gendered online harms in Africa.
✨ Coauthored award-winning continent-wide research around African women’s data use
✨ Co-created the storyline for a digital security game that won a UNESCO Innovation award
✨ Co-authored a global study advising how philanthropic support is necessary for the resilience of foundational Open Source infrastructure.
✨Conducted an exploratory study on the extractivist nature of Big Tech expansion into the African continent.
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I am on a mission to master the art of storytelling on camera. Follow my journey on TikTok as I explore give commentary on the latest internet culture updates, and share reviews on books I’ve read.
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From AI friends to humanoid robots, the world of technology is changing faster than ethicists can catch up. I started a newsletter to give an ethical angle to latest tech updates, but also dive into a topic I’m passionate about- internet culture. I named this project "Chaotic Good" because I choose to embraces the messy, complex nature of ethics in technology and confront difficult questions rather than settle for easy answers.
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Alongside activist and civil society representatives, I worked with Plan International, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to come up with changes that could be made to platforms to curb online abuse and harassment against girls.
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I was invited to join the Women's Media Center’s youth editorial board. Here, I regularly contributed stories on social media activism and women and girls' rights.
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