Alex Gladstein, Fadi Elsalameen, Roya Mahboob, and Meron Estefanos speak about the effects of monetary inflation and how Bitcoin protects human rights.
Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He also serves as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum. In his work, Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, presented at the European Parliament and US Department of State, and participated in Singularity University events worldwide, where he serves as faculty and lectures on bitcoin and the future of money. He currently lives in the San Francisco area
Fadi Elsalameen is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the American Security Project. Previously, Elsalameen was a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Fellow at the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. Elsalameen is an advocate for human rights, democracy, and anti-corruption with a special focus on bitcoin and crypto as tools for freedom.
Roya Mahboob is an Afghan tech entrepreneur and founder of Citadel Software, a software development company based in Herat. In addition to being one of Afghanistan’s first female tech CEOs, Mahboob founded the Digital Citizen Fund, a nonprofit that aims to increase women’s technological literacy and provide employment and educational opportunities for girls in Afghanistan. Mahboob was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013 for her innovative initiatives to expand computer education.
Meron Estefanos is a renowned Swedish-Eritrean journalist, author, human rights activist, and advocate of victims of trafficking and torture who has been dubbed “The Huntress of Human Traffickers” for helping to bring to justice 15 human smugglers. She is a member of the Eritrean Movement for Democracy and Human Rights and has actively campaigned for freedom and democracy in Eritrea, a dictatorship from which citizens continually risk their lives to flee political repression,
