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    Social Media Safety Index Advisory Committee

    The GLAAD SMSI advisory committee includes an array of respected leaders working at the intersections of tech accountability and LGBTQ rights.

    ALOK (they/them)
    Writer and Performer

    Lucy Bernholz, Ph.D (she/her)
    Founding Co-Director, Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab

    Alejandra Caraballo, Esq. (she/her)
    Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School

    Joan Donovan, Ph.D (she/her)
    Founder, Critical Internet Studies Institute and Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University

    Jelani Drew-Davi (they/them)
    Senior Communications Specialist, Kairos

    Liz Fong-Jones (she/her)
    Field CTO, Honeycomb

    Evan Greer (she/they)
    Director, Fight for the Future

    Leigh Honeywell (she/her)
    Lead Security Strategist, 1Password

    Maria Ressa (she/her)
    Journalist, Co-founder, and CEO, Rappler

    Tom Rielly (he/him)
    Founder, TED Fellows Program and Founder, PlanetOut.com

    Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D (she/her)
    Faculty Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and Professor, Gender Studies at UCLA

    Brennan Suen (he/him)
    Deputy Director of External Affairs, Media Matters for America

    Kara Swisher (she/her)
    Renowned journalist and Editor-at-Large at New York Magazine, and host of “On with Kara Swisher” and “Pivot” podcasts

    Marlena Wisniak (she/her)
    Senior Legal Manager, AI and Human Rights, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law

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    The following guidelines will help you ensure that the language used to describe transgender victims of violence is fair and respectful. These guidelines apply to all stories that involve the transgender community, but are especially important when the person has been a victim of violence;

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