Team & Board

Putting tech to work for a free Palestine

A small staff runs Tech for Palestine day to day, incubating and scaling tech and advocacy projects for Palestinian liberation, with guidance from our board of directors.

Board of Directors

  • Portrait of Paul Biggar

    Paul Biggar

    Founder & CEO

    Paul Biggar leads Tech for Palestine, a collaboration of tech projects advocating for Palestine. At its core, Tech for Palestine is an incubator to start and support projects for Palestine with mentorship, tech volunteers, marketing support, and connections to the broad Palestine advocacy community. He previously founded tech startups Darklang and CircleCI, as well as a Y Combinator-backed startup. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 2010.

  • Portrait of Amir Nathoo

    Amir Nathoo

    Co-founder & CEO of Outschool

    Amir seeks technology and social levers to disrupt the status quo and drive positive change at scale. He is Co-founder and CEO of Outschool, an education marketplace for kids, having previously founded Trigger.io, a development platform for creating native mobile apps, and worked at Square, leading the development of Square Payroll. He holds an MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

    Since late 2023, Amir has led, funded and supported a variety of humanitarian, political and economic projects in resistance to Israel's genocide and in support of Palestinian liberation. He provides free classes for Palestinian refugee kids through Outschool.org's non profit initiative and is an investor in Boycat.io amongst others.

Staff

  • Portrait of Afzal Mangal

    Afzal Mangal

    Director of Marketing

  • Portrait of Alexandra Fine

    Alexandra Fine

    Researcher

  • Portrait of Azza Hararah

    Azza Hararah

    Director of Volunteering and Recruitment

  • Portrait of Cecile Potier

    Cecile Potier

    Volunteers and Members Coordinator

  • Portrait of Iva Gumnishka

    Iva Gumnishka

    Director of Strategic Partnerships & Events

  • Portrait of Kate Kerpez

    Kate Kerpez

    Director of Development

  • Portrait of Omar Hamayel

    Omar Hamayel

    Director of Finance

  • Portrait of Samira Hayat

    Samira Hayat

    Project & Teams Operations Manager

  • Portrait of Tom Hall

    Tom Hall

    Director of Incubation

  • Portrait of Zahid Hanif

    Zahid Hanif

    Director of Engineering

Work alongside this team for a free Palestine.

Use your skills to support or start projects for Palestinian liberation, and sustain T4P with grassroots funding.

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