Laura Ranca
Tactical Tech Project Lead -
Berlin
Laura leads Tactical Tech's 'Exposing the Invisible' project which provides techniques, tools and methods of digital and non-digital investigations. Before joining Tactical Tech in January 2018, she worked as a program specialist with the investigative journalism portfolio of the Independent Journalism Program at Open Society Foundation in London. Prior to that, she was a reporter and researcher with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and with RISE Project – a community of investigative journalists, developers and activists in Romania. At RISE, among others, she coordinated the development of Visual Investigative Scenarios (VIS), a data visualisation platform, which assists investigative journalists, activists and researchers in mapping complex organised crime networks. Earlier on, Laura also worked as a public information officer with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as a program coordinator and researcher with the Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.