Who We Are

We are currently engaging multiple stakeholders to help realise our vision with a sustainable strategy. Groundswell is a long play not a flash in the pan, therefore we are engaging with the best across the board from experts in Tech, Media, Academia and Activism to make our vision a reality.


HADIYA MASIEH

Founder and Executive Director

Hadiya Masieh has a wealth of experience and expertise in the area of community cohesion, interfaith relations, counter extremism, and women’s involvement in radicalisation. She has been a counter extremism consultant for various governments and NGOs around the world for the past 22 years. She has also worked closely with big tech players such as Google and Facebook in order to develop innovative counter-extremism approaches.


Hadiya is :


Part of the UK Government’s “National Muslim Women’s Advisory Group” advising UK Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers.


Her work has featured in the Guardian, New Statesman, BBC News, ITV, Radio 4, CNN, BBC World, BBC Asian Radio, Times of India, Times of Israel and others.


She is the co-author of the report “Radcalisation and violent extremism-focus on women” and UN women report Gendered Pathways to Radicalization and Desistance from Violent Extremism.


Hadiya was UK Ambassador for Women Without Borders promoting counter extremism narratives and a board member of the internationally renowned and award winning peacekeeping organisation The Bereaved Families Forum based in Palestine and Israel


Elisha Zarub - Operations Manager

Elisha has over 10 years of experience in industries from finance to business consultancy and the third sector. She is a strategy development specialist who prides herself on delivering win-win solutions that help to counter hate narratives with tangible outcomes. We are delighted that Elisha decided to join us in November 2021.

Contact: Elisha@groundswell.world


Maeve Park - Training Manager

Delivers and manages all of our training programmes Maeve always ensures engaging delivery that gets great feedback from our training attendees. Coming from an education and academic background she has studied extensively Far Right movements, Male supremacy, the Incel movement and more.

Contact: Maeve@groundswell.world


Tara Baloch - Social Media Support

Currently studying for a year in the US, at UC Santa Barbara, social media whiz Tara is helping to make sure Groundswell stays on the map in all the right places, by highlighting and amplifying our good work and the work being done by our partners across our project areas.

Contact: info@groundswell.world


Leadership Council

Dr Erin Saltman

Head of Counterterrorism & Dangerous Organisations policy EMEA at Facebook.


Yasmin Green

Yasmin Green

Head of Research and Development at Google Jigsaw.


Brittan Heller

Is a tech and human rights fellow at Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Media

Teri Whitcraft

Senior Producer at ABC News and an award-winning journalist. Teri was the first to interview Malala. (US)

Jenny Quigley-Jones

Founder and CEO of Digital Voices, a top UK Influencer Marketing agency.


Carol Allen Storey

Award-winning photojournalist specialising in humanitarian and social issues. UK


Academics

Sasha Havelicek

CEO / Director of Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) a world leading counter extremism organisation. (UK)


Hannah Stuart

Co-Head of Policy Exchange Security and Extremism.


Dr Kirstine Sinclair

Is Associate Professor (PhD) at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, Department of History, University of Southern Denmark.

Seran de Leede

is an Associate Fellow at ICCT (Internations Centre for Counter Terrorism) at the Hadgue. Netherlands

Farrah Nazir

Learning Lead for the Culture, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (CEDI) team at the Wellcome Trust.

Activists

Hanan Ibrahim

Women’s Rights Activists - MBE. Kenya





Arno Michaelis

Speaker, author of My Life After Hate a memoir examining the mistakes that led to involvement in hate groups, and the circumstances that led the way out.


Sarah Nelson

Was voted twice for the Financial Times Top 100 Ethnic Minority leaders. She is Financial Director at Sainsbury’s and heads their BAME network.