Felicia Anthonio

Ghanaian digital-rights campaigner and the #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager at Access Now since 2020, leading the global civil-society coalition against internet shutdowns from the Access Now staff profile base in Accra, Ghana. Under Anthonio's leadership the #KeepItOn coalition has expanded from roughly 200 founding-era organisations to more than 350 national, regional, and international civil-society organisations worldwide, and is the principal global vehicle of grassroots digital-rights organising against state-ordered internet and electronic-communications shutdowns.

Anthonio joined Access Now from the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), where she had served as Programme Associate, press-freedom and free-speech advocate, and coordinator of the African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) — a position from which she was already representing MFWA in regional internet-freedom and free-speech work by the mid-2010s. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and Psychology from the University of Ghana and a Master's degree in Lettres, Langues et Affaires Internationales from l'Université d'Orléans in France; her working fluency in English and French is operationally load-bearing for the coalition's parallel Anglophone and Francophone African organising.

Beyond her Access Now role, Anthonio sits on the Advisory Council of the US-based Open Technology Fund, on the board of the Norway-based World Expression Forum (WEXFO), and is a member of the African Digital Rights Network and a 2019 Fellow of the African Internet Governance School (AfriSIG). She hosts The Kill Switch podcast, was featured in BBC World Service's The Shutdown documentary, has authored and co-authored publications on internet shutdowns published through Access Now, Yale University, CIPESA, and Bloomsbury Collections, and her analysis and advocacy on internet shutdowns has been featured in BBC, Al Jazeera, and The Guardian. Within the corpus's frame, Anthonio anchors the Ghanaian and Anglophone West African civil-society digital-rights register, is the principal public-facing voice on Access Now's #KeepItOn coalition, and is the corpus's first Ghanaian Person entry.