Meet Snap's Safety Advisory Board Members
Snap's Safety Advisory Board is made up of 19 members. It consists of 16 professionals from traditional online safety-focused non-profits and related organizations, as well as technologists, academics, researchers, and survivors of online harms. Members are experts in combating significant online safety risks, like child sexual exploitation and abuse and lethal drugs, and have broad experience across a range of safety-related disciplines, including artificial intelligence. We are also joined by 3 Board members who are young adults and youth advocates. We selected these applicants to ensure the Board has ready-access to the all-important “youth voice” and viewpoint; to make certain a portion of the Board includes committed Snapchat users; and to seek to balance professional views with practical perspectives from a core demographic of the Snapchat community. Our Safety Advisory Board is an independent body with experts offering their time, perspectives, and feedback without compensation from Snap.
Below are our Safety Advisory Board Members.
Alex Holmes
Deputy CEO, The Diana Award, UK
Amanda Third
Professorial research fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia
Anshul Tewari
Social entrepreneur and the Founder of Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA), India
Castra Pierre
Young adult, member of USAID’s Digital Youth Council, Haiti
Ed Ternan
President, Song for Charlie, U.S.
Hany Farid
Professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
Jacob Sedese
Young adult, student and part-time tech journalist, U.S.
Janice Richardson
International advisor on children’s rights and digital citizenship, Insight2Act, based in The Netherlands and focused on Europe and North Africa
Justine Atlan
Director general, eEnfance, France
Jutta Croll
Chair of the board, Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation), Germany
Lucy Thomas
CEO and co-founder, PROJECT ROCKIT, Australia
Maria Loodberg
Expert advisor, Friends/World Anti-Bullying Forum, Sweden
Meeri Haataja
Co-founder and CEO, Saidot, Finland
Michael Rich
Pediatrician, founder and director Digital Wellness Lab & Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, U.S.