Celia Davies oversees Moonshot’s interventions and safeguarding programming, with specialisms in CVE and GBV interventions and conflict-affected regions. She has led the development of multi-platform online interventions programmes in South East Asia, the Western Balkans, and North America, pioneering new ways to reach at-risk individuals online and connect them with local services. This has involved building partnerships with local civil society and social enterprises, as well as government prevention bodies and law enforcement. In her capacity as Director of Ethics she leads Moonshot’s internal ethics review processes, overseeing the ethical processes that underpin our work. Celia brings broad experience of working with local groups in complex locations with security challenges, including close to a decade in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, working on human rights, media development and counter-disinformation initiatives.
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
