Hera Hussain
Founder at TikTik
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHera Hussain is a founder and digital social innovator with a decade of experience building tech-led, volunteer-driven initiatives that tackle gender-based violence and civic corruption. As Founder and CEO of Chayn, she scaled a laptop-born project into a 400+ volunteer global network whose multilingual, survivor-centred resources have reached over 500,000 people. Her background in psychology and economics informs a trauma-informed, evidence-led approach to product and policy work, demonstrated earlier in advocacy roles at Open Contracting Partnership and OpenCorporates. Hera brings practical community-building skills to governance too, serving on advisory panels for the Information Commissioner’s Office and TikTok’s Content & Safety Council. Known for blending open-source tech with hopeful design, she pairs grassroots empathy with a track record of influencing policy and digital safety at international scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons.) Psychology and Economics, BSc(Hons.) Psychology and Economics at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (10)
security6
medicine4
sms3
jekyll1
python1
php1
api1
mozilla1
jekyll-theme1
member1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chaynHQ/Impact-Reports
Apr 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 84 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
reports
chaynHQ/manipulation-is-abuse-guide
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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