Mariel García-Montes is a technology capacity builder and researcher from Mexico. She is a doctoral student at the History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her main topics of interest are privacy and information security, technological openness movements, social exclusions in technology, and participatory processes. Mariel has worked in communications, instructional design, and research around open data, privacy and security, strategic communications and other digital literacies for organizations in Mexico, the United States, and around the world.