Alaphia leads the Policy and Partnerships team within the strategy function, overseeing Luminate's work on tech policy coherence, communications and partnerships. She brings a deep understanding of Luminate's overall work having come from a programmatic, grant-making team.

Alaphia has more than a decade of campaigning and advocacy experience, first at Amnesty International and then as a senior campaigner at Avaaz, where she focused on issues of media reform, human rights, and the impact of digital hate speech on minorities. One of Alaphia’s successes includes campaigning to stop the takeover of Sky Television in the UK by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. She previously worked as a news anchor and journalist at New Delhi Television, where she expanded the network’s coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to some of the most remote parts of South Asia.