Sandra Aceng is the Executive Director at Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), where she champions the integration of gender perspectives in digital rights and ICT-related policies. She is a gender and ICT researcher, policy analyst, writer, and Wikimedian. Sandra is an outspoken and energetic woman 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, and 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: Victimisation, Perpetration, and Responses” in 2022. She is a Global Voices contributor, Impakter Magazine contributor,  Expert Advisory Board Member 2025 for an Ofcom UK literature review on TFGBV, Global Network Initiative Accountability Committee (AC) 2025-2026, Expert Group Member on the development of a supplement to the Handbook on Legislation for Violence against Women that will focus specifically on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TFVAWG), and Advisory Group Member for Africa Symposium on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Sandra recently served as the Advisory Group Member for the 2025 UNFPA Global Symposium on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV). She was a former Associate Editor at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). She is 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. She was selected as one of the 40 fellows for the class of 2021 virtual edition of the African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG). Sandra leads efforts to advance data justice research and practices in Uganda, engaging policymakers, developers, and marginalized groups such as women and persons with disabilities. As a Wikimedian, she has led the Art+Feminism, Wikipedia For Human Rights, Wikipedia For Refugees, and Wiki Loves Earth projects, focusing on Wikipedia skills, community norms, and best practices on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. She has also contributed to other Wikimedia projects, such as WikiGap.