Yvonne Ng

Senior Manager of Training and Partnerships

WITNESS

Yvonne Ng is an audiovisual archivist and Senior Manager of Training and Partnerships at WITNESS, a global organization that helps people use video to document the truth and defend human rights. She serves on the steering committee of the Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI), a coalition dedicated to preserving the authenticity of media collections, encouraging transparency, and ensuring public trust in archives. Yvonne holds an M.A in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University, and was the 2024 recipient of the Alan Stark Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists in recognition of her contributions to moving image archives and the association.

Participating Sessions

HOW TO KNOW WHAT’S REAL

This workshop teaches practical, everyday habits for checking whether what you’re looking at is what it claims to be: how to trace where an image or video actually came from, what warning signs suggest manipulation, and what questions to ask before you share something or believe it. Bring your phone. Bring your skepticism. Leave with tools you’ll actually use.

Faked, Erased, Distorted: Does the Record Matter?

You’ve seen the footage. You’ve watched the clip. And at some point in the last few years, you’ve probably stopped and asked: is this even real? That question used to belong to archivists and forensic experts. Now it belongs to everyone. AI has made it easier to generate, alter, or strip context from images and video, while disinformation campaigns and propaganda operations — run by governments and non-state actors alike...