Our team

Charlotte is the Projects & Logistics Officer for Stop Killer Robots and joined the team in July 2022. In her role, she provides operational, administrative, and financial support to the Stop Killer Robots campaign and campaign member organisations.

Charlotte is an activist passionate about disarmament, human rights, and gender justice. Charlotte has a Master’s degree in Global Development Studies from Queen’s University, specializing in children’s rights and refugee policy and Honours Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Political Science from Mount Allison University.

Charlotte is currently based in Kingston, Canada.

Salena Barry is the Digital Communications Officer for Stop Killer Robots. She manages the campaign’s digital and social media communications. 

Prior to joining the team in July 2023, she worked for Islington Council, a local authority in London, and Refuge, the UK’s largest domestic abuse charity. In these roles, she led on the digital element of campaigns, developing content and multi-channel strategies to advance project and communications goals. While working at Refuge, she supported the organisation’s Naked Threat campaign, which successfully lobbied the UK government to amend a clause in the Domestic Abuse Act (2021), granting additional rights to survivors. She has also volunteered her communications skills to support grassroots campaigns advancing migrants’ rights and environmental justice. 

She holds a Masters degree in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her graduate dissertation explored the use of indigenous visual culture by settler state governments to advance domestic indigenous policy. She believes in the power of communications, visual and textual, to build community and inspire meaningful action on human rights and social justice issues. In her free time, she writes about visual arts, drawing out its intersections with politics. 

Originally from Canada, Salena is currently based in London, UK.

Clare Conboy is Head of Campaigns and Partnerships at Stop Killer Robots.

She studied Fine Art Sculpture and History of Art at the National College of Art and Design in Ireland and began working in communications and campaigning in 2013. Based in Ireland, Spain and the UK, Clare has lobbied at Irish and UK parliaments, worked on a general election campaign, and provided communications, media, and campaigning support to organisations including the British Refugee Council, Fundación Intras, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) UK, and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre.

Clare joined Stop Killer Robots in 2018, previously serving as Media and Communications Manager and Campaigns and Strategic Communications Manager. Before this, she was Communications and Web Manager at the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, where she served on ICAN’s International Steering Group. She co-led the photo, video, and social media teams during the negotiations on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons for which ICAN was subsequently awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. 

Her approach is guided by intersectional feminist and humanitarian disarmament values. Originally from Ireland, Clare is based in London.

Isabelle Jones is Head of Government Relations & Advocacy for Stop Killer Robots. In her role, she manages efforts to expand and strengthen the campaign’s network and provides ongoing support through funding, resources, and coordination to build momentum and energize the coalition.

Isabelle joined the campaign to Stop Killer Robots in June 2018, as its first full-time staff member. Previously she worked in various roles at Aga Khan Foundation Canada; the LSE Centre for Women, Peace, and Security; the LSE Centre for Human Rights; and Human Rights Watch. Isabelle has a Master of Science in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, where her research focused on how applications of new weapons technology within the social structure of the military could result in increased civilian casualties. She also has a Bachelor of Arts in Global Development and an International Studies Certificate from Queen’s University.

Originally from Canada, Isabelle is currently based in New York City, USA.

Elizabeth Minor is Head of Policy at Stop Killer Robots, focusing on policy development, research, and advocacy in international forums.

Before joining in August 2025, Elizabeth worked on initiatives to strengthen international law and policy on weapons and civilian protection as an Advisor at Article 36. She was part of ICAN’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; at the negotiating conferences, she collaborated with colleagues to successfully push for provisions on victim assistance and environmental remediation in the Treaty. She also researched and advocated on autonomous weapons, armed drones, protecting education, under-representation in international disarmament forums, and other issues. Previously, Elizabeth worked at Every Casualty Counts, leading research into casualty recording methodologies and launching its international practitioners’ network. Until 2021 she sat on the Board of Airwars.

Elizabeth has an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA from University College London. She taught a course on International Disarmament Law as a visiting research scholar at O.P. Jindal Global University, India, and was also an honorary associate at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is committed to working collectively and collaboratively for a more just and peaceful world.

Elizabeth is from and based in London, UK.

Nicole van Rooijen is the Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots. She is responsible for the overall strategic and operational management of the campaign. 

Prior to joining the team in January 2025, Nicole worked at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In her final role there, she worked as the Head of Protection for the Asia-Pacific Region, which builds on over a decade of work at the international organisation where she advocated for the respect of international humanitarian law to minimise civilian harm in times of armed conflict. 

She has worked in Côte d’Ivoire, Colombia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Gaza and Jordan, before coming to Geneva. Through her field experience, she has gained a deep understanding of the human cost of war and the urgent need for stronger adherence to international laws, as well as the development of new legal frameworks to keep pace with technological advancements in military and law enforcement operations.

Nicole holds two masters degrees in International Politics and Human Geography.  

Nicole is based in Geneva, Switzerland

Sai works as a researcher on the Automated Decision Research team and is based out of New Delhi, India. In her role, she researches the legal, social, and policy impacts of automated decision-making.

She previously worked on police and prison accountability in the Commonwealth, with a focus on Trans* and Queer people in conflict with the law. Sai holds a Master’s in social work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, with a specialization in Criminology and Justice.

Gugu Dube joined the Automated Decision Research team as a Researcher in 2021. From April 2019 to mid-2021, she was a Researcher in the Transnational Threats and International Crime Programme in Pretoria for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). She was also a researcher for Southern Africa for ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s response to transnational organised crime). She worked for the ISS from 2007 to 2014, researching arms management and garnering African states’ support for the Arms Trade Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. She was a consultant to the 2013 UN Group of Governmental Experts for the UN Register of Conventional Arms.

Dube has a BA Honours degree in International relations from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and is pursuing her Master’s degree at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.