Over the past two years, I’ve brought together 500+ practitioners from 40 countries, people working at the ground level of online safety, digital rights, and AI accountability. Many were doing brilliant work in isolation. Through SHIELD, their voices are now in the same room, amplifying each other and reaching audiences that would never have encountered them otherwise.

Now I’m building the systems that turn what they’re seeing into evidence that decision-makers cannot ignore. A decade as a CFO taught me to read accountability structures and risk architecture. That lens is what allows me to translate ground-level knowledge into the language that resonates in boardrooms, policy rooms, and governance conversations.