Jillian York

Jillian York

York speaking at the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum (photo by Personal Democracy)
Born May 18, 1982[1]
Dover, New Hampshire, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Free-expression activist, journalist and travel writer
Website
jilliancyork.com

Jillian C. York (born May 18, 1982)[1] is an American free-expression activist, journalist and travel writer.

She is the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).[2]

Career

In 2006, York authored Morocco – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture, a travel book on Morocco.

In 2008, she joined the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace, where she worked on the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations, and Herdict, and conducted research on distributed denial-of-service attacks.[3] In 2011, she moved to the EFF, where she is the director of international freedom of expression.

York has been called "one of the leading scholars on Internet control and censorship"[4] and a specialist on free expression and social media in the Arab world.[5] Her research[6] on the role of social media in the Arab Spring has been widely cited.[7] In June 2011, Foreign Policy named her one of the top-100 intellectuals discussing foreign policy on Twitter.[8]

York's writing on free expression has also been published in The Guardian,[9] Bloomberg[10] and Foreign Policy.[11]

She is a regular columnist for Al Jazeera English[12] and writes for Global Voices Online,[13] where she is also on its board of directors as of 2011.[14] She also co-founded Talk Morocco, which won the 2010 Deutsche Welle Best of Blogs Award for Best English-language blog.[15]

In May 2014, she gave a talk with Jacob Appelbaum suggesting the safer sex and harm reduction movements could show advocates of liberty and privacy how their work can better reach mainstream audiences.[16]

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