Sophie Dyer
Sophie Dyer. Illustrated portrait by thecovatar.
Sophie Dyer is a researcher, designer and writer working at the busy intersection of open source, visual and human rights-based investigations.
A founding member of the Feminist Open Source Investigations Group and one half of the citizen sensing project Open-weather, Dyer’s work is interested in the ethics of open source research and the co-creation of feminist frameworks. Dyer works with Amnesty International’s Evidence Lab in addition to collaborating with the Syrian Archive. In these research projects residencies, her advocacy work focuses on the reconciliation of local reports of civilian harm in Iraq and Syria with belligerent reporting, via open source investigations, data modelling and liaison with the United States military.
