Lecture: Going beyond the boring: Making Rights Real in Tech
Miranda Sissons
Notes & Changes
This event is open to members of the University, but priority will be given to students and tutors of the Summer School in International Human Rights Law and the MSc in International Human Rights Law. This is an in-person event.
Session overview
How do you go from being a human rights defender on the ground to creating a human rights function at a big tech company? How do you try to make rights real for 3 billion people every day? Does the business and human rights framework even matter? Come learn about how to handle the cutting edge of rights challenges while working at preposterous speed.
About the speakers
Miranda Sissons leads the human rights policy team at Meta Platforms – home of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, as well significant AI tools and research. Prior to founding the team at Meta, Miranda worked as a human rights defender; as a diplomat; and in social impact tech. An Australian, Miranda is a Yale graduate and Fulbright scholar.
Questions and discussion will be moderated by Jo Harlos, an intelligence lead at Meta whose work focuses on the understanding of modern slavery, human trafficking and their intersection with modern technologies. Jo is also a current student on the MSc in International Human Rights Law at Oxford.