I’ld like to nominate Harshita Arya from Mozilla Odisha, who started her journey as mozillian in KIIT, Bhubaneshwar and now working towards growth of movement in Odisha state.
Mozillians profile: https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/Harshita8801/
About Harshita Arya:
Harshita is brave, takes initiative in self-assigning complex challenges, champ in community building and conflict management, potential future leader of privacy movement and internet health.
She started WoMoz in Bhubaneshwar, recruited women volunteers and mentored them in learning various FOSS technologies. She being a full stack developer, organized series of web development training sessions for club members.
- Facilitator at Cryptoparty Bhubaneshwar
- Founded WoMoz Bhubaneshwar
- Speaker for full stack web development sessions in KIIT
How I helped her as rep:
Cryptoparty Bhubaneshwar was my first event to work with Harshita, I helped her understand about global mass surveillance programs like PRISM by NSA and safeguarding ourselves from it with privacy alternatives at https://prism-break.org, with a conclusion privacy can be best achieved with Encryption and Free Software which is decentralized-by-design. Discussions after the event continued, I helped her understand the importance of https://privacyfirst.in campaign, detailed discussion on Policy India Strategy 2019 which emphasizes on the significance of creating awareness around privacy and data protection in India.
I’ve discussed with her about my work with organizing WoMoz events , and new initiatives from Diversity and Inclusion team at Mozilla and its functionality, how to ensure CPG in communities she is building up.
