Jenna Fung

Jenna is the Senior Campaigner at OpenMedia, an internet governance enthusiast and a public policy nerd. Her interests intersect the technicality of internet technology and public participation in policymaking. Both professionally and personally, Jenna is actively involved in influential or leadership capacities with the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) youth community and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) community. Recently, she has explored unconventional education alternatives by joining voluntary research groups on digital policies in Asia Pacific, Paris, and Washington D.C. She recently completed the CanStudyUS Fellowship 2024 at Toronto Metropolitan University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she now resides in Toronto, Canada. Jenna is also a flamenco dancer, a passionate reader, and cat lover.

Matt Hatfield

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Matt is OpenMedia’s Executive Director. His previous work focuses on bridging the gap between good policy and messy political reality, with 5 years experience leading international digital rights advocacy at IFEX, and previous experience with the UN Environment program and Canopy Planet. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia, and a Masters of Global Affairs from the University of Toronto. He loves cats and swing dance, and only infrequently attempts to combine the two.

Krusheska M. Quirós

Krusheska is the Operations Director at OpenMedia. Both, her work and evergrowing multidisciplinary background, gravitate around the intersection of technology, activism and the arts within social movements with a focus on their essential contribution in the strengthening of our communities.

Linda Cabral

Linda Cabral is a Research & Policy Analyst at the Canadian Council of Public-Private Partnerships. Previously, Linda worked at Twitter where she supported a range of policy projects, on subjects including disinformation, privacy, content moderation, safety, civic engagement, social impact, and the open internet. Additionally, she has worked as a political consultant, having strategically advised and managed campaigns federally and municipally. Linda has worked across the sectors of child protection, education, tech, and infrastructure. She is also a big fan of tiny little dogs, specifically chihuahuas.

Spencer Callaghan

Spencer is the Director, Brand & Communications at CIRA, the national nonprofit that manages the .CA domain registry and has helped build its brand into one of the most trusted and dynamic in the Canadian technology ecosystem. He has been working as a marketing and communications professional across a variety of organizations from nonprofits to startups for more than 15 years. Spencer is a lifelong supporter of the open internet and believes that the digital platforms and technologies around us have the ability to make our lives better or worse depending on whether we make them work for us or allow them to work against us.

He currently serves on the Board of National Capital Freenet, a not-for-profit that provides low-cost internet access to people in Ottawa.

Kersti Kahar

Kersti has been working in the charitable sector for nearly 25 years, primarily in fundraising and marketing, and currently holds a senior role at the Canadian Red Cross. She also brings extensive experience in management, operations, governance and financial oversight in a non-profit context. Kersti has always been passionate about social justice and community involvement, with a long history of volunteering and activism. She is a strong believer in the power of the internet to bring together and mobilize communities. Her other board experience has included work with two Toronto-based agencies: Trinity Café, which supports adults in their mental health recovery, and Sistering, a multi-service agency serving vulnerable and at-risk communities across the city.

Daniela Kelloway

Daniela Kelloway began her media career at the age of 11, delivering newspapers. With appearances on CBC, CTV, and in the Times of India, she's achieved remarkable feats, including breaking Guinness World Records for clients and even influencing the Prime Minister to tweet about them.

Kelloway founded ClutchPR, in 2006, a PR and marketing firm serving clients across diverse sectors. In 2018, she launched a startup dedicated to fighting loneliness one book and one meal at a time. BooknBrunch made waves at Elevate, Collision, and the CNE Innovation Garage, winning a $30,000 pitch competition. Kelloway expanded the startup to members in 40 cities globally.

With expertise in strategy, brand, communications, marketing operations, project management, content management, and all aspects of growth marketing, she is a visionary marketing leader bringing big ideas to the table and executing on them.

Reg Levy

Reg Levy works at Tucows, the biggest web one-point-oh company you've never heard of, where she drafts and implements policies for the Internet that make bad people feel sad. She’s been working in the Internet policy space for over a decade, which has become not that long, akshly, in Internet-time. Reg is committed to the free and open Internet and all that it brings to humanity. She is weirdly enamored of the DNS and has been online and fascinated by the Internet since it made the noise of a wild ping-pong ball.

Maya Mior

Maya studies political science and international relations at the University of British Columbia. A digital policy enthusiast and avid contributor to the blogosphere, she’s passionate about defending the open internet, protecting online privacy, and preserving the internet’s ability to bring people together. Beyond OpenMedia, Maya works with organizations such as Amnesty International on projects related to gender and youth rights. In her free time, she can be found writing poetry, hiking, or tending to her rapidly-growing collection of houseplants.

Lauren Salim

Lauren is an advocacy and community-engagement specialist with experience working on a wide range of issues at the intersection of human rights and technology, including online hate speech and discrimination, digital electoral repression and interference, access to information rights, accountability mechanisms for corporations, and digital security and documentation tools for human rights defenders. She holds a BA in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University and a Masters in Human Rights from the University of London. Lauren lives in Nova Scotia, Canada and in her free time she can be found reading, hiking with her German Shepherd, or competitively swimming.

Travis Smith

Travis "Nep" Smith is the founder of Hop Studios, a company that helps purpose-driven organizations create and maintain modern, robust CMSs and other Internet-based tools. They have been building content-rich, elegant websites since 1994, when they were one of the original creators of the Los Angeles Times dial-up service on Prodigy. They've also previously been the editor of Variety.com (the first news site with an RSS feed) and a lecturer at the University of Southern California and BCIT. They believe that all freedoms blossom from the right to speak and be heard, and that safeguarding the Internet and empowering its broad use is the most effective way to preserve freedom for all.

Travis lives in Calgary and in their free(ish) time, they play many flying disc sports based all built on the principle of Spirit of the Game.