2025 Social Media Safety Index

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

Sweeps Week Resource Kit

Community organizations play a vital role in responding to sensational sweeps coverage with their own anti-defamation campaigns. With this Sweeps Weeks Toolkit, GLAAD encourages community members to contact stations that air sensational coverage about the LGBT community and tell them how such stories spread inaccurate or defamatory myths about us.

Immigration Inequality Resource Kit

Following the reintroduction of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) in Congress on May 8, GLAAD calls on journalists to explore the real life consequences of discriminatory immigration policies on LGBT- and HIV-positive people and their families.

The Angie Zapata Murder: Violence Against Transgender People Resource Kit

On April 14, 2009, the two-week trial for the murder of Angie Zapata—an 18-year-old transgender woman—began in Greeley, Colo and ended with her murderer convicted of a hate crime.

Transgender Day of Remembrance Resource Kit for Journalists

Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors the memory of those murdered because of anti-transgender prejudice, is recognized annually on November 20. GLAAD encourages journalists to mark the occasion with stories about the pervasive problem of crimes against transgender people, as well as the diversity and resilience of the community in the face of harassment and violence.