Subhashish Panigrahi is a public interest digital archivist, civil society leader, and documentary filmmaker. He is interested in media in practice as a democracy-making tool to fight caste, gender, and socioeconomic oppressions. With a focus on participatory oral history and nonfiction media research, he has directed and produced nine nonfiction films: three documentaries as a 2017 National Geographic Explorer and the 2021 documentary “MarginalizedAadhaar” as the Yoti Digital Identity Fellow. Panigrahi has served civil society through leadership roles at Ashoka, Internet Society, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, and the Centre for Internet Society. He has also been an open culture advocate and Wikipedia editor since 2011. He has authored many book chapters, academic papers, and essays and has spoken at international conferences in more than 20 countries.