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In this third session, Starling Lab will be joined by technical contributors who work with data and digital media collections and archives to explore challenges and solutions in capturing, storing, and verifying important datasets used in journalism, law, and history.

Speakers include:

Aaron Arnold, a Senior Associate Fellow with the Center for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, where his work focuses on sanctions and proliferation financing. Earlier, Dr. Arnold served on the UN Panel of Experts for DPRK sanctions, was a fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, and worked as a counter-proliferation subject matter expert in the U.S. Department of Defense and the Justice Department

Jake Nicol, a 2023 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford where he explored technological solutions for collaborating and reporting, building off tools like Situ’s Codec, a collaborative timeline and mapping tool to manage large visual datasets. Such tools make it possible to create helpful visualizations and investigations, especially for smaller newsrooms.

Nico Para, a software engineer who he works with nonprofits to create applications in the Human Rights Sector. Currently, he is a senior Technical Consultant at Security Force Monitor, a project of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University.

Noah Schechter, a Stanford undergraduate studying international relations and computer science. He leads product and operations at Atlos, an open source and non-profit platform that empowers visual investigators to collaborate safely at scale. Atlos currently powers Bellingcat’s sprawling investigation into civilian harm in Ukraine. Moderator: Lindsay Walker, Product Lead at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity @ Stanford / USC.