The Team

Dragana Kaurin (she/her), Executive Director

Dragana Kaurin is the founder of Localization Lab, and has worked at the intersection of technology and human rights for over a decade. Before starting the organization in 2013, she was a program officer at the Open Technology Institute, and worked as a data analyst at Ushahidi. She advocates for equal access to information, diversity, and representation online, and increased local content on the Internet. She believes that making civic tech truly available for everyone requires designing with end-users and not for them. Before entering the Human Rights Program at Columbia University, where she did research on civic tech and refugee rights, she worked in Crisis Information Management and Communication For Development (C4D) at the UN and UNICEF.

Her research focus at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is on data protection and digital rights of refugees and asylum seekers, and has presented this work at the 2019 Oxford Media Law & Policy Program.

Dragana speaks Serbo-Croatian, Arabic, French, and Spanish.

Dragana leads organizational growth and strategy at Localization Lab. She works with partner organizations to identify unmet needs, and coordinates user feedback and research.

dragana.kaurin [at] localizationlab [dot] org
t: @draganakaurin