Manuela Travaglianti

Manuela Travaglianti is a strategic researcher at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, where she is focusing on practitioners' initiatives. Her work aims to create tools to help tech professionals embed ethical considerations into technological development and decision-making. As such, Manuela is leading the strategy and the execution of an expansion of the Center’s case studies program to create interactive and actionable cases and toolkits that are tailored to the needs of tech practitioners. In doing that, she is also managing outreach to Trust and Safety professional organizations and is further contributing to the design of the Stanford Ethics & Technology practitioner course.

With over a decade of academic and industry experience, Manuela’s work is at the intersection of conflict and tech. Prior to Stanford, she spent almost five years at Meta as senior/staff researcher in integrity. There, she focused on people and societies in places at risk of conflict and human rights violations, and developed strategies to detect and mitigate harm and to respond to crises in a scalable way. Before her time in the industry, she was a lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley and consulted on electoral violence prevention for the United States Institute of Peace. Manuela holds a PhD in Politics from NYU and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Catania, Italy. She was a graduate fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley.