The Digital Action Advisory Board is excited to announce Dalia Othman and Lucie Doumanian as the new Co-Executive Directors of Digital Action!

These two capable, thoughtful, and energized leaders bring complementary skill sets that will enrich our work, hold Big Tech accountable, and support and grow the DA team that has been delivering our impactful and effective campaigns. 

What is striking about Dalia and Lucie is that both of them center communities in their thinking about righting tech harms. As true collaborators deeply committed to the model of shared leadership, they complement each other’s skills and perspectives. 

We were committed to hiring at least one leader from a Majority-World context. With Dalia and Lucie, we are grateful to have found two individuals who bring lived experiences of the impacts of tech harms in their communities—experiences that also fuel their passion to drive meaningful change.

Read more about our incoming Co-Executive Directors below: 

Dalia is a digital rights advocate who has long worked on the intersections between technology, feminism, and social justice. She was the Co-Executive Director at The Engine Room, leading on research at the intersection between Technology and Social Justice. Prior to The Engine Room, Dalia co-founded and led Jeem, a feminist media organization producing knowledge in Arabic on issues related to gender and sexuality. While at Jeem, she worked on embedding healthy organizational structures and building a community of engagement around the content. Dalia spent two years as a research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, researching online communities in the Arabic-speaking region and how technology can enable narrative building and storytelling.

Lucie is a feminist digital rights activist with a passion for social justice and social change. She counts herself as a co-conspirator, rather than an ally, on matters of tech accountability, access, digital security, spyware use, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. She was the Deputy Executive Director at SMEX, where she led fundraising growth that doubled the organization as well as managed programs on digital security, right to privacy, tech accountability, freedom of expression, access to the internet and information, and the intersectionality of digital rights and other areas of human rights. Lucie holds dual masters in diplomacy and strategic negotiations and has applied skills in both those areas that were in action in joint Beirut-Belfast projects.