Rose Hackman is a British journalist based in Detroit.
For the last decade, her work on gender, race, labor, policing, housing and the environment — published in The Guardian — has brought international attention to overlooked American policy issues, historically entrenched injustices, and complicated social mores.
In 2015, while working as a features writer for The Guardian in New York City, Rose wrote a widely-circulated article on emotional labor, which radically changed her way of understanding how power, gender and race affect the most intimate ways in which people relate to one another. Her research on emotional labor in the eight years since — as an invisible, devalued, feminized and yet essential form of work — has sought to drastica
Since 2010, Harry Brignull has dedicated his career to understanding and exposing the manipulative and deceptive techniques that are employed to exploit users online. He is credited with coining a number of the terms that are now popularly used in this research area, and is the founder of the website deceptive.design (formerly darkpatterns.org). He has worked as an expert witness on a number of cases about deceptive patterns, including Nichols v. Noom Inc. (Case 1:20-cv-03677), Arena v. Intuit Inc. (Case 3:19-cv-02546) and FTC v. Publishers Clearing House LLC (Case 2:23-cv-04735). Harry is also an accomplished user experience director, having worked for organisations that include Smart Pension, Spotify, Pearson, HMRC, and the Telegraph news
