Aliya Ryan
Local Partnerships Lead at Awana Digital
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAliya Ryan is a partnerships and community lead with nine years of professional experience and a 25-year track record working alongside Indigenous Earth Defenders to protect lands and rights. Based in Oxford, she currently leads Local Partnerships at Awana Digital and guides partner accompaniment at Digital Democracy, blending field-centered advocacy with digital strategy. With an MA in Anthropology from Cambridge, she connects ethnographic insight to practical program design, helping translate community priorities into sustained digital and on-the-ground initiatives. Colleagues value her ability to navigate complex cultural and institutional landscapes while maintaining accountable, long-term relationships. Notably, she pairs grassroots accompaniment with institutional partnership-building, ensuring technology supports — rather than supplants — local leadership. Her public-facing work links civil society networks across the UK and global Indigenous protection efforts.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Arts - MA, Anthropology, Master of Arts - MA, Anthropology at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (35)
webmap10
democracy9
django-project8
django-framework7
django7
simplification6
vector-tiles6
polygon6
openstreetmap6
mapbox-gl-js6
monitoring4
monitor4
orange3
geographic2
wfs2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
digidem/sinangoe-webmap
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Sinangoe webmap
Contributions:141 commits, 2 comments, 11 issues in 7 months
django-projectdjangodjango-frameworkwebmap
digidem/wao-export
May 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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