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
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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.
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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
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Afzal Mangal
Director of Marketing
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Alexandra Fine
Researcher
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Azza Hararah
Director of Volunteering and Recruitment
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Cecile Potier
Volunteers and Members Coordinator
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Iva Gumnishka
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Events
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Kate Kerpez
Director of Development
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Omar Hamayel
Director of Finance
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Samira Hayat
Project & Teams Operations Manager
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Tom Hall
Director of Incubation
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Zahid Hanif
Director of Engineering
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