Cameran Ashraf is an Iranian-American digital activist and doctoral student at UCLA. His doctoral research focuses on the geographies of information, social movements, politics, and diaspora using Iran's recent post-election unrest as a case study.

Among other projects, he has worked on protest video distribution resulting in nearly 3 million video downloads from Iran. He is co-founder of Internet advocacy NGO AccessNow.org and Expression Technologies, a non-profit organization working directly with activists in censored and repressive regimes.