Dr. Courtney Radsch is scholar practitioner working at the nexus of technology, media, and rights. Her work focuses on tech policy, platform governance, AI and influence operations, and media sustainability. Radsch writes and speaks frequently about these issues and has testified before Congress, participated in expert consultations at the United Nations, EU, OSCE, and OECD, and provided expertise to technology platforms on policy and product design and impact. She has led advocacy missions and media assessments in more than a dozen countries and trained journalists and activists around the world. She is a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Technology, Law and Policy and a fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Center for International Governance Innovation, and the Media and Journalism Research Center. She has worked as a journalist in the Middle East, an international diplomat with UNESCO, and a human rights advocate with leading organizations including the Committee to Protect Journalists, Freedom House and ARTICLE 19. She is a founding member of the ACOS (A Culture of Safety) Alliance for journalist safety and the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, and works on responsible tech and platform accountability, content moderation, and countering violent extremism online as a member of the Global Network Initiative (GNI), the International Science Council’s Panel of Experts, and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) International Advisory Committee. Her book Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change was published in 2016 and she holds a Ph.D. in international relations.