SXSW 2012

Program Dir
Witness
Sam Gregory is the Program Director at the human rights group WITNESS, focused on empowering millions of people to use video and technology for human rights effectively and ethically. He launched the Webby-nominated Human Rights Channel on YouTube (youtube.com/humanrights), and leads WITNESS’ work on the award-winning ObscuraCam and InformaCam tools. He has worked on impactful campaigns worldwide, created innovative training programs, and teaches human rights and participatory media at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Sam was a 2012 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and in 2013 an Institute for theFuture Fellow, working on strategies for technology-enabled live and immersive witnessing and task-routing for human rights activism.