Tamy Guberek’s career as a human rights advocate spans the non-profit sector, academia, and the technology industry.
She is currently a Senior Researcher in the Privacy and Data Practices organization at Meta. She leads research to help the company align with people’s online privacy expectations, meet regulatory requirements, and reduce risks of harm, especially among populations with heightened risks.
Tamy began her career conducting high-impact research in service of justice via the EPIIC seminar at Tufts University in 1999. After an EPIIC-sponsored research trip the then-newly established International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Tamy co-led a national survey of NGOs perceptions of the court in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research uncovered how the vacuum in outreach by the ICTY was being filled by misinformation, exacerbating the ethnic and political tensions in a process that claimed to individualize responsibility and promote reconciliation.
Between 2004 and 2010, Tamy served as Latin America Coordinator for the Human Right Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), using digital security tools, survey methodology, and applied data science to shed light on the magnitude and patterns of human rights abuses in Colombia, Guatemala and other countries.
Tamy earned her Ph.D at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. Her doctoral work focused on the impact of communicating uncertainty about data to decision-makers, and the online privacy concerns and behaviors of vulnerable communities.
She also has a M.A. in World History from Columbia University, a M.Sc. in International History from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University.