Ramzi is passionate about harnessing the power of storytelling, technology and behavioural design to promote social justice. His work at VI spans content and technology strategy. An engineer by training, Ramzi served as the lead curator of TEDxRamallah 2011, organized between Ramallah, Bethlehem, Beirut, and Amman and live streamed to over twenty cities globally. He also founded OnlineCensorship.org, a space for crowdsourcing reports of censorship by social media companies. During 2012, he was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law as a Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence. In 2013, Ramzi was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship. (Profile Updated 2015)

Joumana’s work revolves around introducing creative processes to address pressing social issues affecting individuals and communities in the Arab region. She served as a co-curator of TEDxRamallah in 2011. She is also a co-founder of Febrik, a collaborative platform for participatory art and design research projects concerned with social practices in public spaces, with a particular focus on Palestinian refugee camps. Joumana holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. She also holds an MBA from the EuroMBA program, a consortium of six European universities including EADA, UCD and Maastrich University. She is a Synergos 2013-2014 Arab World Social Innovator fellow. (Profile updated 2015).

Ahmad is an information designer and architect with a decade of professional experience. He is involved in all stages of infographic production and has facilitated workshops with Mozilla Festival, Tactical Technology Collective and Columbia University Studio X. Ahmad holds an MPhil in Environmental Design from the University of Cambridge. (Profile updated 2015).

Prior to joining VP, Sandy spent 8 years with the Beirut DC Cultural Association, developing expertise in NGO administration. She now handles VP's accounting and HR. Sandy has a Bachelor's degree in Social Science and a Master's degree in Anthropology. (Profile updated 2015).

Fadi is an urbanist, interdisciplinary design strategist and management professional. He shares ten years of collaborative experience in planning and architecture, process design and infographics, and critical research and social advocacy. He is editor of the book At the Edge of the City (2010) and recipient of the Basil Fuleihan Innovative Good Governance Award (2008). Fadi holds graduate degrees from Parsons The New School for Design and the American University of Beirut. (Profile Updated 2016).

Matthew Stender is a Berlin-based tech ethicist & futurist who focuses on the implications of emerging tech & what it means to be human in the 21st century. (Profile updated 2017).

Shorouq’s work spans a multitude of design fields, from web design, interactive application design and UI/UX to illustration, storyboarding and 2D- and 3D-animation. She holds a BA in Motion Media Design and an MA in Interactive Design and Game Development from the Savannah College of Art and Design. (Profile updated 2016).

Thoraya is a strategic planning and management consultant with eight years of professional experience in both the private sector and the UN. She holds a Masters’ Degree in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics. (Profile updated 2016).

Ahmad is a full-stack software engineer who loves to work on projects with social impact. Although his recent work focuses on bootstrapping start-ups from A to Z, he has also worked extensively with large public and private sector organizations on coding mission critical applications. Notable clients include Deutsche Bank, Cigna and governmental organizations in the US and Canada.

Hani is an architect and a creative thought leader with twenty years of experience. A graduate of MIT and Harvard, Hani is a founding partner of Polypod, a multidisciplinary award-winning studio in Beirut offering integrated design services in web development, information design, graphic design, branding, architecture and interior design.

Polypod provides integrated design solutions across multiple disciplines. We are an award-winning studio committed to raising design discourse in our community.

The Mlabbas founders started a t-shirt venture in 2004 called teeshirtat.com which sold vintage Arabic tees at the first ever Jara Market in Jabal Amman. In 2010, the project relaunched as Mlabbas with a small kiosk in City Mall, where you can find Visualizing Palestine print products among their unique collection.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. They work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows. Visualizing Impact and EFF are co-founders and co-hosts of the awardwinning Onlinecensorship.org project, which focuses on censorship enacted by social media companies.

Global Voices is a border-less, largely volunteer community of more than 1400 writers, analysts, online media experts, and translators. Global Voices has been leading the conversation on citizen media reporting since 2005. They curate, verify and translate trending news and stories you might be missing on the Internet, from blogs, independent press and social media in 167 countries. Visualizing Impact is a collaborator on Global Voices Advocacy's Threatened Voices project, which tracks threats facing online content creators around the world.

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally. Visualizing Impact and Small Media collaborated in organizing Data4Chan.ge Beirut 2015, and have also connected on work themed around freedom of expression.

Mada Masr is an Egypt-based media organization interested in producing intelligent and engaging journalism, and more generally in re-examining the role of media in relation to its public. Visualizing Impact and Mada Masr collaborated on "Visualizing Egypt" between 2014 and 2016, exploring censorship in Egyptian media.

Silatech is a regional social organization that works to enable jobs and expand economic opportunities for young Arabs. The organization promotes large-scale job creation, entrepreneurship, access to capital and markets, and the participation and engagement of young people in economic and social development. Visualizing Impact and Silatech collaborated in 2013 to work on the theme of Arab youth employment.

The Lutfia Rabbani Foundation is dedicated to building sustainable, inclusive societies in Europe and the Arab World by facilitating Euro-Arab dialogue and educational exchange.

IFEX is the Global Network Defending and Protecting Freedom of Expression.
In 2016, Visualizing Impact joined the network of organizations fighting for Freedom of Expression as an IFEX Member.