Entisar al Qadhi and Yasmin al Qadhi are the Executive Director and Founder of the Marib Girls Foundation in Marib, Yemen.

Entisar al Qadhi & Yasmin al Qadhi

Madiha Tahir is a multimedia scholar researching drones and global warfare. She is currently writing a book on life and survival amidst war in Pakistan. She is also working on a collaborative project documenting the legacies of the 'war on terror,' funded by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University where she received her PhD. Tahir is the director of the short documentary Wounds of Waziristan, co-founder of the nonfiction magazine Tanqeed, and co-editor of the book

Madiha Tahir

Roberto Lopez is a community organizer with the Texas Civil Rights Project in Austin.

Roberto Lopez

Sam Richards

Wayne Phelps is a retired lieutenant colonel from the Marine Corps and former military drone pilot, based in Austin, Texas.

Wayne Phelps

Liz O'Sullivan is the VP of Partnerships at Arthur AI and the Technology Director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project in New York City.

Liz O'Sullivan

Irene Knapp was a senior software engineer at Google; today, they are a labor organizer and an activist.

Irene Knapp

Derrick Ingram is co-founder of Warriors in the Garden, a collective of activists in New York City.

Derrick Ingram

Asad Dandia is a graduate student, writer, and organizer based in southern Brooklyn.

Asad Dandia

Linda Sarsour is a racial justice and civil rights activist and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn.

Linda Sarsour

This series features audio interviews with individuals whose personal experiences speak to the impacts of drones and surveillance. The interviews touch on topics including the effects of military drones, US domestic use of drones and aerial surveillance, technology and drones, and histories of surveillance in New York City. The goal of this audio portrait series is to tell individual stories that show the breadth and complexity of the systems that utilize drone warfare and surveillance and the impacts of these tactics on individuals, communities, nations, and the world. 

Produced by Gilded Audio.

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