Nick has made it his mission to foster safer online spaces.
He joined the Coral Project shortly before its acquisition by Vox Media in 2019. From there he became a core developer in ensuring that Coral's platforms scaled to meet both the strenuous demands of Vox's user base as well as many other customers around the globe.
After almost a decade of improving social and moderation tooling for Coral, Nick became the key software architect for SB Nation's social platform (The Feed) and its native apps. Creating a completely new community and moderation toolset that would evolve into the future of public interaction at Vox Media.
His most recent endeavour has been the creation of Tightrope Software to bring the knowledge he has gained back to Canada through new moderation platforms that will protect current and future online spaces.
Andrew Losowsky brings people together.
He was the founding head of The Coral Project (later ‘Coral’), a Knight Foundation-funded collaboration between Mozilla, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Coral is an open source community platform for journalism, as well as a series of strategy guides and original research. Coral’s software is now in 23 languages and powers conversations for more than 60 publishers around the world.
Andrew ran Coral for ten years, managing its acquisition by Vox Media where he became Head of Community Product. He oversaw community strategy across the organization, including the development of SB Nation’s social platform, The Feed.
Andrew is currently the Director of Product / Product Editor at CalMatters and The Markup. He is on the advisory board of Documented and Open News, and is a teacher and mentor to students and early-career product managers.
Photo credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr / CalMatters
Miti loves designing and implementing tools that help people protect their privacy!
She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. Her research is at the intersection of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and software engineering, with an emphasis on human-centered approaches. She designs efficient privacy-enhancing technologies, for the benefit of end-users, while providing usable interfaces for software engineers and privacy engineers. Her work integrates privacy-enhancing technologies into modern distributed architectures and software engineering lifecycles. Her research has been published in top-tier venues in the field of digital security and privacy.
Prior to joining the University of Calgary, Miti received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. She has collaborated with Protocol Labs on privacy research in the Interplanetary File System. She had a brief stint at Snowflake Inc, deploying differential privacy. Miti is passionate about bringing privacy-enhancing technologies into practice, at Tightrope Software!
Patrick is trying to make work suck a little bit less.
He is a Senior UX Designer at Blackline Safety, where he has focused on designing user experiences for enterprise software, IoT hardware, and mobile app interfaces for over five years. Additionally, he has over a decade of experience working in graphic design, brand strategy, and communications strategy.
Since 2013, he has also helped mentor teams of undergraduate and high school students participating in synthetic biology and tech innovation competitions.
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