Board of Advisors
Jessica Dheere
Jessica is a leader in the global digital rights movement, seeking to hold government and corporate power accountable for human rights in the digital age. She previously served as Open MIC’s Advocacy Director and, prior to that, was director of Ranking Digital Rights, which evaluates how the policies and practices of the world’s most powerful tech and telecom companies affect people's fundamental human rights. She is also founder and former executive director at SMEX, a Beirut-based, pan-Arab organization that advances digital rights in the West Asia/North Africa region. In 2018-19, she was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where she launched the CYRILLA Collaborative, a global initiative to map, analyze, and visualize the emergence and evolution of national legal frameworks for digital rights. Jessica graduated from Princeton University and has an M.A. in media studies from the New School in New York City.
Jonas Kron, Esq.
Jonas is Chief Advocacy Officer of Trillium Asset Management. With more than twenty-five years of experience in shareholder advocacy, he is responsible for leading and coordinating Trillium’s extensive advocacy program, which works to engage companies on their environmental and social performance. His advocacy work includes direct communications with company leadership, investor education and awareness, shareholder proposals, and public policy advocacy at the municipal, state, and federal levels. As a recognized legal expert in the field and a leader in shareholder advocacy, Jonas regularly represents Trillium in the media, at public events, and with clients. Jonas served on the board of US SIF - the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment from 2017 through 2023. Prior to joining Trillium, Jonas was an environmental attorney and public defender as well as outside counsel to many socially responsible investment organizations. Jonas holds J.D. and master’s degrees from Vermont Law School.
Madison Lee
Madison is a PhD Candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs through Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Ontario. She is a former doctoral fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s Digital Policy Hub. Her research specializes in International Political Economy, with a focus on the contemporary consequences of corporate-driven technological innovation. Madison’s doctoral research engages with and advances scholarly debates on techno-feudalism and the potential mutations of capitalism under conditions of Big Tech dominance over emerging technologies.
Aparna Surendra
Aparna leads algorithm governance and emerging technology research projects at AWO, the London-based data rights law firm and consultancy. She has served on the Program Committee for the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) and is a member of RealML, a collaborative expert workshop investigating the social impacts of algorithmic systems. Aparna has a background in policy and data science. Previously, she held roles with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s data team; Google DeepMind’s Ethics and Society team; LIRNEasia, a leading Sri Lankan think tank; and Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Aparna holds a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, both from Stanford University.
