Verification, Collaboration and Community Engagement: Amnesty International’s lessons from using Open Source Intelligence to monitor global human rights violations and train the next generation of ...
Alexa Koenig
Alexa Koenig is director of the University of California Berkeley's Human Rights Center and co-founder and director of its Human Rights Investigations Lab, which trains undergraduate and graduate students from across disciplines to use open source methods to support the work of journalists, activists and lawyers worldwide.
She is also co-author with Andrea Lampros of Graphic: Trauma and Meaning in our Online Lives (Cambridge University Press, 2023), co-editor of Digital Witness: Using Open Source Methods for Human Rights Investigations, Advocacy and Accountability (Oxford University Press, 2019) and co-author of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror (UC Press, 2016).
Over a hundred journalists jailed in Turkey by Erdogan. Opposition newspapers closed illegally in Orban’s Hungary. Journalists in the United States regularly demonized by Trump as “fake news” pe...
