Sarah Kiden is a technologist and researcher working at the intersection of technology, communities, and design. She is a Marie Curie Research Fellow on Open Design of Trusted Things (OpenDoTT), a joint program between Northumbria University and Mozilla. Prior to this, she was a 2017-2018 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow hosted by the Research ICT Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, working on research around broadband performance and Internet measurements in Africa. She has worked in various capacities in higher education and the private sector on projects ranging from systems and network design/support, promoting ICT use in the classroom, and Internet policy. Sarah holds an MSc in Information Systems, and a BSc in Information Technology, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in communication design research.