Manuela Travaglianti

Manuela Travaglianti is the Project Lead for the Ethics Toolkit at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Through her work, she wants to empower tech professionals to innovate ethically at any step of the process. She is behind the creation of the Ethics Toolkit, a set of actionable resources designed to help people explore the impacts of your work, assess their ethical implications, and plan thoughtful actions in response. She continues to expand this Toolkit and leads its implementation in practice, collaborating with diverse partners across the tech space through both educational and joint initiatives.

With two decades of experience in academia and industry, Manuela’s work sits at the intersection of conflict, ethics, and technology. Before joining Stanford, she spent more than four years at Meta as a senior/staff researcher in integrity. During that time, she researched strategies to detect and mitigate online harm in vulnerable contexts at high risk of violence and human rights violations, and developed scalable approaches to respond to crises. Earlier in her career, she was a lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley, and consulted with the United States Institute of Peace on electoral violence prevention. Manuela holds a PhD in Politics from New York University, as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Catania, Italy. She was also 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.