Melissa Gira Grant is a writer, artist, and activist working at the intersection of sexuality, new media, feminism, and human rights. She served as a research consultant on 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action.

Grant is the founder of the sex worker media and policy watch blog, Bound, Not Gagged, and has been offering media & advocacy workshops for sex workers internationally since 2005. She currently works in communications and development at the Third Wave Foundation, and lives in New York.

Sam Gregory is the program director at WITNESS, which trains and supports people to use video in human rights advocacy. He is a video producer, trainer, and human rights advocate.

In 2005 he was the lead editor on Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism (Pluto Press), and in 2007 he developed the WITNESS Video Advocacy Institute, an intensive two-week training program. He has worked extensively with grassroots human rights activists - particularly in Latin America and Asia, including the Philippines, Burma and Indonesia, integrating video into campaigns on a range of civil, political, social, economic and cultural human rights issues.

Videos he has coproduced have been screened to decision makers at the US Congress, the UK Houses of Parliament, the United Nations and at film festivals worldwide. He attended the Harvard Kennedy School on a Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, and graduated with a master's in public policy. He has worked as a television researcher/producer in both the UK and USA, and for development organizations in Nepal and Vietnam, and holds a BA from Oxford University in History and Spanish. He is on the Boards of the US Campaign for Burma and the Tactical Technology Collective.

Tessa Lewin is a Southern African social scientist, artist and animator, based in the UK. Lewin is particularly interested in the intersection between art and social science and in work tries to engage with issues of social justice. She is also interested more generally in cross-disciplinary and collaborative work.

She is currently managing the communications for Pathways of Women's Empowerment, an international research and communications consortium based at the Institute of Development Studies.

Program Officer
Information Program & Human Rights and Governance Grants Program

After working several years exclusively with the Open Society Institute Human Rights and Governance Grants program (HRGGP) in Budapest, Elizabeth Eagen is now a joint program officer for the Information Program and HRGGP. 

Eagen continues her country-based portfolio with HRGGP’s human rights and accountability funds, covering Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.  With the Information Program, she focuses globally on human rights data projects, and the use of new media tools in information management, developing grants and grantmaking for organizations creating sets of data to answer human rights and policy questions and support advocacy campaigns with data visualization tools and tactics.