Summary
Faisal M. Lalani is a global community organizer with a background in building international coalitions, advising policymakers, and preserving human rights and democracy. He has worked all over the world — including in Nepal, South Africa, India, the UK, Sri Lanka, and the US — and has expertise in digital rights, education reform, public health, climate and energy transitions, clinical psychology, foreign policy, and social movements.
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Faisal Lalani is a researcher, activist, writer, and technologist with a history of community organising in countries like Nepal, South Africa, and India. His work spans across multiple disciplines, including tech and democracy, public health, education reform, and clinical psychology. His recent work involves analyzing social media patterns of politicians during major elections in India with Microsoft Research, and partnering with U.S. state governments to manage COVID-19 contract tracing through Dimagi. Faisal is a graduate from the University of Oxford’s Media Policy Summer Institute and holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was formerly a non-resident Fellow at New America’s Planetary Politics team.
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