Sonja Peteranderl she/her

Sonja Peteranderl is an investigative journalist and the founder of BuzzingCities Lab, a think tank focusing on violence, crime and the impact of technology, and The School of Conflict & Peace. She covers organized crime, urban violence, illegal markets, gender-based violence, digital violence, security/policing and tech trends, from predictive policing to criminal innovation for ARD team.recherche, Spiegel, Zeit or AlgorithmWatch. She is a fellow of the Publix Tech Fellowship 2026, focusing on Ethical AI.

Sonja Peteranderl worked as an editor at the foreign desk at DER SPIEGEL, as the Latin America correspondent for DER SPIEGEL based in Tijuana, Mexico; as a technology editor for DER SPIEGEL, a senior editor at WIRED Germany magazine, as well as a freelance foreign correspondent and reporter for German and international media – reporting from various countries in Latin America, from the US or China. As an algorithmic accountability reporting fellow at AlgorithmWatch, she investigated the impact of algorithms on policing and justice; as a Journalist in Residence at the Humboldt University of Berlin she investigated AI and environmental crime in Latin America.