Manuela Travaglianti is a strategic researcher at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, where she is developing a new initiative to help tech professionals account for ethical and societal implications through case studies and actionable toolkits.

With over a decade of academic and industry experience, Manuela works at the intersection of conflict and tech. Prior to Stanford, she spent almost five years at Meta as senior/staff researcher in integrity. There, she focused on people and societies in places at risk of conflict and human rights violations, and developed strategies to detect and mitigate harm and to respond to crises in a scalable way. Before Meta, she was a lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley and consulted on electoral violence prevention for USIP. Manuela holds a PhD in Politics from NYU and a bachelor's degree from the University of Catania, Italy.