Our Team
Andreen Soley
Director
Andreen leads PIT-UN’s strategy, growth, partnerships and fundraising. Her PIT interests include identifying opportunities for multisector collaboration through the annual PIT Convening, expanding the Network globally, and building an ecosystem to support PIT products and entrepreneurs.
Brenda Perea
Senior Program Manager, Challenges & Grants
Brenda manages PIT-UN’s programming, which includes RFPs & Challenge Grants, education, and conferences. Her PIT interests include helping members to institutionalize PIT, seeking out new members and showcasing the outcomes of working groups. Reach out to her to connect with other members or for support in developing your PIT program.
Nia Brazzell
Student Network Coordinator
Nia works with our student network to fortify our student club efforts across the country. Her PIT interests include leveraging technology to create more equitable futures. Reach out to her for questions about starting or growing your student PIT club, or plugging into existing student activities across PIT-UN.
Tynesha McCullers
Operations Manager
Tynesha is an interdisciplinary critical scholar-educator and technologist who studies the uses and impacts of the internet on ways of knowing, being, communicating, and remembering. She examines the significance of surveillance, AI, and algorithmic technologies on public mental health, policymaking, and digital archiving and writing. Tynesha keeps the PIT-UN team running smoothly by managing internal timelines, processes, and priorities. Reach out to her for questions about collaborations with PIT-UN.
Strategic Partners
Mary Woodworth
Mary works with the PIT-UN leadership on strategic communications, development, and events, including overseeing the launch of the PIT-UN Summit. Her PIT interests include providing Network members, partners, and supporters with a multifaceted platform to share and celebrate their work with a wider audience.
Afua Bruce
A leading public interest technologist, Afua provides strategic planning and program design support for a number of PIT-UN initiatives, including exploration of the private sector’s role in the PIT ecosystem and the support of cyber program development inside and beyond academia.
Jasmine McNealy
Jasmine is an attorney, critical public interest technologist, and social scientist who studies emerging media & technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. She is an associate professor at the University of Florida, where she is director of the ICED (Infrastructure for Communities, Ecology for Data) Hub.