Eriol is a senior designer with 10+ years of experience in design, technology and human rights and has been leading projects and teams for the last 5. Their bachelor’s degree was in Time-based media or ‘making art with computers’. They then pivoted into a design career while doing volunteer community work in Cardiff UK across Environmental, Education, Asylum Seeker and Arts issues and gained their masters in Visual Communication at the University of South Wales. Eriol has worked in insurance, finance, legal, housing and family tech sectors before moving into the open-source software and human rights as a designer at Ushahidi and Open Food Network before joining Simply Secure. They also help maintain the Open Source Design community and are a PhD researcher looking at how designers get involved in human rights centred open-source software. They are most happy when working as part of a team of designers, developers and product folks with a focus on collaboration.