PODCASTER AND DIGITAL EXPERT

Bridget Todd is a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center and the host of Mozilla Foundation’s multi award winning podcast exploring ethics in AI IRL: Online Life is Real Life.

She is a frequently cited expert, trainer, and speaker on combating disinformation, advocating for social media platform accountability, creating safer digital experiences for women and other marginalized people, and celebrating and amplifying marginalized people’s contributions to tech and the internet. Her writing has been published in Newsweek, The Nation, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.

She created her critically acclaimed podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet to explore how marginalized people show up online in response to the lack of inclusion in conversations around the internet. 

There Are No Girls The Internet earned “Best Technology Podcast” at the iHeart Radio Podcast Awards and a Shorty Award for “Best Podcast Miniseries” for DISINFORMED, a miniseries exploring how misinformation, and conspiracy theories around COVID, gender, and race hurt marginalized communities. 

Formerly, as Director of Communication for the national gender-justice advocacy organization Ultraviolet, Bridget regularly met with leadership from platforms like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok to advocate for and develop policy recommendations to make digital experiences safer and more inclusive. Bridget’s writing and work on technology, race, gender and culture have been featured at the Atlantic, Newsweek, the Nation, the Daily Show and several other outlets..

Bridget is an engaging speaker who enjoys talking with students, industry groups, and conference audiences. She has several talk tracks including the role of AI in the future of podcasting, the importance of the Internet for connecting people from historically marginalized groups, practical digital security for the chronically online, and others. If you’re thinking of inviting her to speak at your event, please get in touch!