In four countries, the Guardian's Global Media campaign - powered by Change.org - has amplified the grassroots work of campaigners against Female Genital Mutilation in the UK, the US, Kenya and the...
Elisa Finocchiaro
Elisa Liberatori Finocchiaro is Country Lead of Change.org Italy. She is an online campaigning expert, a manager and a blogger at the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. She has played a major role in fostering the explosive growth of Change.org in Italy, starting her career there as a campaigner when the platform was at its earliest stages. Since she started working at Change.org, the user base has skyrocketed from only 300.000 to 5 million users nationwide.
Before Change.org, she worked on international projects for Doctors Without Borders and FAO, reporting from Africa and Latin America.
How do journalists use Change.org, the largest worldwide platform of online activism, to go beyond the news and try to create real change in society? Journalists will recount their transition from...