Costanza Sciubba Caniglia

Costanza Sciubba Caniglia is the Anti-Disinformation Strategy Lead at the Wikimedia Foundation. She initially joined the Foundation as a consultant for the 2020 US Elections and beyond, and then joined as staff in 2022 to lead the Foundation’s anti-disinformation work.

Costanza is responsible for coordinating across the Foundation on matters of disinformation, as well as liaising with movement communities and affiliates and maintaining open lines of communication with governments, civil society organizations, and academic institutions. Costanza works with these partners to advocate for effective policy responses to disinformation that support and protect access to knowledge around the world.

Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, Costanza worked in journalism and public information at the United Nations in New York, including as a spokesperson for Italy on the U.N. Security Council. She is affiliated with the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and is an editor and co-founder of the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. She was nominated as one of the “50 Women of the Year” by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in 2021.

Costanza holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, an B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy and Theoretical-Critical Studies from the University La Sapienza of Rome, and a Masters in International Relations from the Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI).