Caitlin N Howarth

Caitlin Howarth manages the early warning systems program at the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). The Signal team works to advance the safe, ethical and effective use of information technologies by communities of practice during humanitarian and human rights emergencies. Howarth is also Co-Founder and CEO of Aulenor Consulting, a woman-owned business building start-ups for social impact worldwide. Howarth was formerly Reports Manager for the Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI from 2011-2012. She has served as Director of Leadership Development at the Truman National Security Project, Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Equality Project at the Roosevelt Institute, and COO and National Policy Director at the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network. Howarth’s consultant work includes the design of the award-winning MediCapt mobile forensic evidence collection app, created for Physicians for Human Rights. A Washington, DC native, she holds a BA in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia and an MPP in International & Global Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Sub-specialties:

- Mass atrocities and related early warning systems, technologies, forms of extreme violence (i.e. rape, torture and mutilation)
- Technology used for humanitarian and human rights objectives
- Humanitarian ethics and standards in conflict zones
- Ethics and standards in technology, including Internet access, engineering design, distribution
- Technology for startup enterprises, including in developing global markets and the US (particularly DC-based startups)
- Leadership development for the Millennial/Gen X generations and future generations
- Values-based leadership and the challenges of political and profit pressures on organizations
- Progressive political organizing post-2007
- Social impact startups