Anika Collier Navaroli is a writer, lawyer, and researcher focused on the intersections of technology, media, policy, and human rights. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, a Public Voices Fellow on Technology in the Public Interest with The OpEd Project in partnership with The MacArthur Foundation, and a 2023 Unicorn Fund awardee. For the last decade her work has spanned from inside tech companies and centers of research to advocacy organizations and classrooms.

Throughout her extensive career, Anika has developed unique insights on the real-life implications spanning the American ideals of free speech, equality, and safety and their complicated intersections with evolving digital technology. Her experience makes her uniquely situated to critically analyze the impacts of policy, regulation, and governance of emerging tech.

She has grappled firsthand with some of the most historic moments in social media history. Her candid congressional testimony, as a subpoenaed senior policy official, chronicled her unheeded warnings of impending violence to Twitter in the months and days leading up to the January 6 Capitol Attack and the platform’s ultimate decision to suspend former President Donald Trump. In recognition of her efforts she received the Riddenhour Truth-Telling Prize and the Courage Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Today, Anika strives to share her experiences and insights to expand public knowledge and discourse about the technological ecosystems people engage with everyday. She believes firmly in the protection of our democracy, the power of freedom of expression, and has dedicated her career to working toward a better and more inclusive future.