Join us as we talk to Visualizing Impact Co-director and Co-founder Ramzi Jaber, Partner & architect Ahmad Barclay, and Operations manager Jessica Anderson about Visualizing Palestine and all the amazing work they do.
Date: Tuesday, June 01
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)
Ramzi Jaber is passionate about harnessing the power of storytelling, technology and behavioral 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.
Ahmad Barclay is a partner with Visualizing Palestine since its founding in 2012, Ahmad is an architect, visual communicator and product designer. He is actively engaged in a variety of projects involving data visualization, visual storytelling, and learning through play, and has facilitated courses and workshops based on his practices in cities including Beirut, Amman, London, Lisbon, and Bangalore. Ahmad is also co-founder of MyToyTown, a slot-together wooden play system for kids.
Jessica Anderson joined the team in 2013, motivated by the vision of combining data and story to advance human rights communication. Over the years, she has had the opportunity to collaborate on many VP projects as a researcher, copywriter, and project manager, and has also supported day-to-day operations.
About Visualizing Palestine
Launched in 2012, VP is the first portfolio of Visualizing Impact (VI) an independent, non-profit laboratory for innovation at the intersection of data science, technology, and design. Visualizing Palestine creates data-driven tools to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Their team of researchers, designers, technologists, and communications specialists work in partnership with civil society actors to amplify their impact and promote justice and equality.