Roberta S. Braga

Founder and Executive Director, Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas.

Roberta Braga is founder and executive director of the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening a healthier Internet for Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America through research, capacity-building, and policy.

Roberta brings over 13 years of experience working in U.S.-Latin America foreign policy, democracy-building, and campaigns and communications. She was most recently director for counter-disinformation strategies at Equis, a set of organizations working to better understand the Latino electorate in the United States, and served as deputy director for programs and outreach at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, where she led policy
programming on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba and on issues of trade, FDI, election integrity, tech, energy, and women’s participation in democracy.

Roberta received the Tech Innovadores Award from HTTP in 2024 for her work in building digital equity online and was named one of 50 Top Women in Cybersecurity Americas in 2023 by Latinas in Cyber and WOMCY.

Roberta earned her MA in Global Communication with a focus on Public Diplomacy from The George Washington University and her BA in Journalism and International Security from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from Brazil, she is a native Portuguese- and English-speaker, and fluent in Spanish.