Sandra Aceng is the Executive Director of the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), where she champions the integration of gender perspectives into digital rights and ICT-related policies. She is a gender and ICT researcher, policy analyst, writer, and Wikimedian. Sandra is an outspoken and energetic human rights defender (WHRD) who advocates for the integration of gender perspectives in ICT policy and analyses threats to free expression in Africa introduced by regulatory initiatives. She was recognised by DefendDefenders as the Human Rights Defender of the Month in February 2021. Notably, she contributed to the book "Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimization, Perpetration, and Responses" in 2022. She is a Global Voices contributor, an Impakter Magazine contributor, a former Associate Editor at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a 2020 Global Network Initiative (GNI)/Internews Fellow, and a 2021 OPTIMA Data-Driven Activism Fellow, where she researched the impact of Internet shutdowns on women. Sandra is also an advocate for copyright and intellectual property within the Wikimedia ecosystem and beyond. She was selected as one of the 40 fellows for the 2021 virtual edition of the African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG) class. Sandra leads efforts to advance data justice research and practices in Uganda, engaging policymakers, developers, and marginalised groups, including women and persons with disabilities.