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Hello, I’m Sam

I’m a digital rights activist and writer. I live on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

I advocate for a liberatory digital future in which everyone can thrive. I focus on tech because I see technology as a critical landscape upon which power structures and social inequalities are codified and amplified.

I’m interested in the material functioning of power and information asymmetries, how we can enhance community safety by resisting carceral and surveillance-based technologies and the ideologies that underpin them, and the social implications of how data is generated, accumulated, and commodified.

I am the Head of Policy at Digital Rights Watch, where I work to protect human rights as realised in the digital economy. I am also undertaking a PhD at Monash University with the ADM+S Centre on tech and housing justice.

You can read my full bio here, read my writing and news commentary here, or suss out my public speaking here.