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Jorge Sierra

Jorge Sierra is a digital security consultant at Open Briefing. He is an IT professional with 15 year’s experience supporting IT operations and infrastructure for organisations in a variety of sectors, including telecommunications, technology, media, and nonprofits. He was a senior IT engineer for Schneider Electric for five years, where he led the implementation and improvement of new cyber security policies, standards, and trainings. In 2020, Jorge was awarded an Open Technology Fund fellowship to work as a digital security consultant for the Mexico Border Investigative Reporting Hub, a network of local journalists and independent media organisations investigating corruption and human rights abuses in the Mexican border states. Since then, he has continued to support the digital security of NGOs, journalists, and human rights defenders in Latin America and Asia. Jorge lives in Mexico and holds a degree in computer systems technology from the Universidad del Valle de México.

Sara Peoples

Sara Peoples is a project associate in the digital security team at Open Briefing. Sara is passionate about working with non-profit organisations on data protection principles and translating strategic decisions into practice through policies, procedures, and technology. She has over seven years’ experience in key account management and partner success roles for major brands and some of Europe’s leading media organisations, including the Guardian. Sara has a law degree from Cardiff University and a BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection from the Chartered Institute for IT. She speaks English and French.

Susana Sanz

Susana Sanz is a digital security consultant at Open Briefing. Susana has an established record in digital security consultancy and training with grassroots movements, journalists, and NGOs. She has previously worked as the information security coordinator for the Centro de Autonomía Digital and a digital security trainer for Totem, a joint project by Green Host and Free Press Unlimited. She is the co-founder of Filtrala, a Spanish whistleblower platform that is a collaboration between hactivists and investigative journalists. She is also a founding member of the women’s rights solidarity group Las Brujas, which raises awareness of femicide in Guatemala, and the Stop Impunity in Rwanda platform, for which she was the advocacy coordinator and spokesperson. Susana holds a master’s degree in participation and community development and a degree in business and economic science.

Richard Tynan

Richard Tynan is the digital and information security lead at Open Briefing. He is also the chair of the technology team for the Vuka! coalition for civic action. Richie is a technologist and ethical hacker who has been building and evaluating secure systems for over 15 years. He is passionate about using technology to help civil society organisations flourish and well known for providing clear and concise explanations of complex legal and technology issues and the interplay between them. Richie was previously a penetration tester at Guardian News & Media, where he served for a period as the most-senior member of their information security team. Prior to that, he was the head of technology at Privacy International for five years, and also led the organisation’s data exploitation programme for two years. Richie holds a PhD in computer science, a graduate diploma in law, and a BCS foundation certificate in data protection.