Zuzanna is the Program Associate at the Technology Threats and Opportunities team at WITNESS, where she supports the work around synthetic media detection. Prior to joining WITNESS, she worked as a researcher at university-based projects where she investigated a diverse range of issues, including the impact of emerging technologies in policing on freedom of assembly, assessing the long-term societal dimension of AI-related harm, as well as housing rights and drug policy. 

She also has experience working on open-source human rights investigations as a former member of Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps and is a Humanity in Action Fellow Zuzanna holds an LLB in Law with Human Rights and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. 

Her Master’s thesis assessed the capacity of the human rights framework to challenge the legal sex/gender binary and was awarded the Nigel Rodley Prize for Best LLM International Human Rights Law Dissertation.