Roya Pakzad
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Roya Pakzad
@royapak.bsky.social
Technology and Human Rights researcher and advocate.

👩🏻‍💻 Founder of Taraaz: taraazresearch.org
👩🏻‍💻 Senior Fellow @mozilla.org‬
✍🏼 writing https://royapakzad.substack.com/
Reposted by Roya Pakzad
I wrote about her and some of her company’s work in this chapter called “The Baby and the Black Box”: marhicks.com/writing/Hick...
August 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So great/helpful that is open sourced, thanks for sharing.
July 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yes, I’m interested: rpakzad@taraazresearch.org
Also interested in discussing multilingual inconsistencies and their trust & safety implications.
July 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I missed your session at TrustCon, but just tested Zentropi for labeling human rights violations, works great in English! Have you considered multilingual support? Here’s a screenshot of the same text in EN and FA.
Also, formatting markdown for better legibility would be helpful.
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🤦‍♀️ but congratulations, Wafa 🐣🎉
July 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Many thanks, Juliet. I was very much looking forward to meeting you -- hopefully virtually or at Stanford's Trust and Safety Research conference if you are planning to go? :)
July 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Many thanks for your kind words, Jen :) Looking forward to our further conversation. I hope the red teaming workshop went well.
July 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Anyway, I guess I'm the "unprofessional" one! but I’m leaving #TrustCon with barely any connections made, regret and disappointment. But if you’re interested in my work on multilingual AI evaluation and human rights impact assessment, I’d be happy to connect: rpakzad@taraazresearch.org
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I also don't recall seeing or hearing anything about a room for breastfeeding/pumping (I might be mistaken) or an area for those who, for any number of reasons in the world of babies and toddlers, need a space during a 3-day, 7:30am to 8:30pm event to satisfy their 24/7 parenting responsibilities.
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy hours (for whom?!): All 5 to 8pm networking events are built around child-free evenings, sipping drinks assuming you have no dependents. How about sponsors who care deeply about child protection and wellbeing in T&S world creating child-inclusive events for parents to be able to network too!
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Badging policy: My partner, here to help with our kids, was questioned couple of times when he *had to* bring them to me in one of the conference-designated areas. With close to $2000 ticket, couldn’t there be caregiver, color-coded badges to avoid this kind of policing and unwelcome encounter?
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I know I'm not the only one. You can hear the parent crowd at 5 or 6am (Call of Duty time!) in lobbies doing childcare and conference prep. Yet, the conference logistics was designed as if they don't know anything about this world. Specific examples:
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
As a mother of a 3.5 and 1.5 year old (still breastfeeding), just deciding to go to a conference means juggling between caregiving, professional goals, emotional labor, etc. My options was to leave them at home for 4 days with military level planning or bring them with me. I chose the latter!
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM