Participants of the AI & Digital Infrastructure Hub
The AI Hub aims to foster collaboration on strategic litigation holding Big Tech, governments and other relevant actors accountable for the harms caused by AI—an increasingly pervasive force in nearly every aspect of our lives. Whether through its implementation in the provision of digital services or its material embodiment as digital infrastructure, AI is provoking, facilitating, and exacerbating social injustice and human rights violations.
On this page, you can meet some of the talented participants of the AI & Digital Infrastructure Strategic Litigation Hub who will be meeting regularly online and in person for the Hub’s activities.
Ana Gaitán
Ana works as a lawyer at R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales, a Mexican NGO who works on issues related to human rights in the digital sphere. She has also worked at the Mexican Supreme Court, international organizations like the ICRC and UNHCR, CSOs and a think tank focused on land rights and indigenous communities.
Christiaan van Veen
Christiaan van Veen is an international human rights lawyer with a diverse background as a legal practitioner and advocate. Christiaan started his career as an attorney focusing on EU law, telecoms regulation and competition law (2008-2013). Between 2014 and 2020 he worked as senior advisor on the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. From 2019 to 2022 he founded and directed a pioneering research and advocacy project on the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights at NYU Law. Since 2023, Christiaan’s work has focused on the relationship between the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and international human rights law, including as an attorney in the groundbreaking litigation in the Netherlands by Friends of the Earth (Milieudefensie) against Shell and as a consultant working on digital infrastructure and environmental impacts for philanthropic organizations. He is currently setting up a new non-profit focused on the production-side of the digital economy, its environmental and social impacts and concentration of market power.
Davy Wang
Davy Wang is a lawyer and litigation coordinator at Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF). His work focuses on digital civil liberties and platform regulation. He coordinates strategic litigation in the areas of state surveillance and data collection, digital participation, users’ rights on online platforms and protection against algorithmic discrimination.
Gabrielle Dunn
Gabrielle Dunn is a Staff Lawyer in the Strategic Litigation Unit at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat. At Amnesty, she has a core role in the strategizing, drafting, reviewing, and filing of organisation’s strategic litigation across all human rights areas – with a particular focus on anti-discrimination, civic space and freedom of expression, LGBTQ rights, and human rights at the intersection of technology.
Grâce FAVREL
Grâce FAVREL is an international lawyer based in Paris, dedicated to advancing human rights and environmental protection. Her work focuses on addressing global challenges through law, advocacy, and international collaboration. She litigates before international courts, including the European Court of Human Rights.
Karolina Iwanska
Karolina is a lawyer and public policy specialist working as the Digital Rights Advisor at the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, based in the Hague in the Netherlands. Karolina leads ECNL’s work on EU digital policy and is coordinating pre-litigation research into surveillance technologies and national security. Previously, Karolina worked at Panoptykon Foundation, where she was involved in strategic litigation aimed to challenge surveillance-based advertising, and was a 2019/20 Mozilla EU Tech Policy Fellow.
FIND
Lejla Čamdžić
Pauline Fritz
Pauline coordinates research and advocacy work on border surveillance and its intersection with violence at the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN). She is also an active member of the ProtectNotSurveil Coalition, working on digital rights within EU migration policy, and works with UN bodies to address issues such as torture, enforced disappearance and border surveillance. Previously, Pauline worked with various organisations in Greece and France providing direct support to people on the move, and was involved in academic research projects on migration policy. She currently pursues a Masters of Law in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Edinburgh.
DiPLaB, IAA, AI WORLd Project
Thomas Le Bonniec
Thomas is a sociology PhD researcher at the Institut Polytechnique under Antonio Casilli's supervision with the Digital Platform Labour (DiPLab) group. He is working on the recognition of AI workers by data protection regulations. In 2019, he helped uncover how Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, collected users' audio recordings without their knowledge, sparking a lawsuit against Apple in 2025 in France. He has worked in the digital industry from a critical perspective ever since and participates in advising public decision-makers, civil society NGOs and trade unions. He also writes news articles on surveillance, platforms, digital labour, the environmental cost of digital economies and regulation.
Yassine Chagh
Yassine (They/He) is the current Chair of IGLYO and Coordinator of its Anti-Racism Panel. They are also a Digital Rights Activist advocating for the non-tokenistic centring of young BIPOC, Refugee, and Migrant voices in tech and governance, and an Anti-Racism Expert specialising in scrutinising and challenging white-dominant movements in Europe and beyond. Yassine brings both professional expertise and lived experience as a young Black, Indigenous, queer migrant in driving systemic change at EU, and international levels; working with civil society networks, govermental institutions, and multilateral agencies.
Emily Patterson
Emily Patterson is an international human rights lawyer and development professional with nearly two decades of experience in rule of law, governance, and accountability programming across conflict-affected and transitional contexts. Her work has focused on strengthening justice institutions, advancing human rights protection, and promoting international accountability for corruption and state capture. She has held senior roles with the OSCE, UN, and other international organizations, providing legal and policy advice on judicial reform, human rights monitoring, and transitional justice, and has also served as an international expert on judicial integrity, access to justice, and anti-corruption for multilateral and donor-funded initiatives. As Co-Executive Director of the State Capture Accountability Project, she leads initiatives to support civil society working to expose and address cross-border corruption and repression. Her work combines legal analysis, policy design, and field experience to develop practical, evidence-based approaches to complex governance and accountability challenges.
Coline Schupfer Galia
Coline is a human rights lawyer and a Senior Legal Officer and Researcher on behalf of the Collaborative Research Centre for Resilience (CRCR). At CRCR, Coline oversees pre-litigation research into digital migration control infrastructures and coordinates international human rights advocacy to address issues such as enforced disappearance, displacement, border violence and surveillance. Previously, Coline worked and consulted for the Open Society Justice Initiative and the International Institute for Environment and Development, where she developed community-based public interest litigation and legal empowerment initiatives to strengthen protection regimes for migrants, refugees, and Indigenous peoples facing corporate-driven displacement. She is co-editor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket Books, 2023).