Jillian York
| Jillian York | |
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York speaking at the 2011 Personal Democracy Forum (photo by Personal Democracy)
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| Born |
May 18, 1982 Dover, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Binghamton University Bachelor of Arts, Sociology; minored in theatre |
| Occupation | Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| Board member of |
Global Voices Online IFEX |
| Website | jilliancyork.com |
Jillian C. York (born May 18, 1982) is an American free-expression activist, the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and a founding member of Deep Lab. She is a regular columnist for Al Jazeera English, writes for Global Voices Online, and is the author of Morocco - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture.
From 2004 to 2007, York spent considerable time in Morocco. In 2006, York authored Morocco – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture, a travel book on Morocco. In an article written in 2011, York wrote about the function of blogs and social media sites such as Facebook providing Moroccans a forum for discussions and information deprived by the mainstream Moroccan media.
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. In 2011, she moved to the EFF, where she is the director of international freedom of expression.
She is a founding member of the feminist collective Deep Lab with Addie Wagenknecht.
York has been called "one of the leading scholars on Internet control and censorship" and a specialist on free expression and social media in the Arab world. Her research on the role of social media in the Arab Spring has been widely cited. In June 2011, Foreign Policy named her one of the top-100 intellectuals discussing foreign policy on Twitter.
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