LEGAL ADVISOR ECNL Berna (she/her) is a Legal Advisor at ECNL specialized in human rights, civic freedoms and community engagement and empowerment strategies. She works at the different intersections of ECNLs work on civic space, technology and counter terrorism. More specifically, she focusses on the impact of counter terrorism and/or technology related legislation and policies on civil society and coordinates ECNLs capacity building activities for (non-digital) civil society groups. Before joining ECNL, she worked as a network coordinator of the Human Rights NGO platform in the Netherlands (Breed Mensenrechten Overleg BMO) focusing on (global) civic space trends. She has also worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam teaching ethics and philosophy of law, human rights, and politics.