Get To Know Our New Interim ED and New Board Members
We hear all of the time that the Integrity Institute punches above its weight. In the 3 years since our founding our team and community of world-leading experts have had a profound impact on the social internet: publishing research and best practices that move the field forward, reshaping policies to meet the operational realities of integrity work, and helping people who work to protect the social internet be more connected to their profession and their community. Along the way we’ve given people agency over their careers, supported one another through the emotional hardships of this work, and managed to have fun along the way.
A great deal more is possible, and to get there we’ll need to lay a solid foundation. We’re moving from a scrappy startup to a more mature organization capable of taking on larger opportunities and challenges. We’re thrilled to announce that Karin Sabey, our new Interim Executive Director, will be shepherding us through this critical process of evolution. Building on her background managing healthcare institutions, Karin has worked as an interim executive director at numerous different nonprofit organizations, helping them move through exactly the kind of growth that we are embarking on now. She brings deep expertise in operational excellence, fundraising, compliance, and the many other things that an organization like ours will need to get right in order to continue growing. As an interim leader, her role will be to put our organization in great working order while we search for the right long-term executive director to carry our critical mission forward.
But that’s not all! We’re also excited about our three new board members:
Megan Stifel, Chief Strategy Officer at the Institute for Security and Technology, brings an in-depth understanding of what it takes to build an established field of technology professionals and is eager to help guide us in that work.
Wafa Ben-Hassine, Principal, Responsible Technology at the Omidyar Network, brings powerful insight into the trust and safety ecosystem and the unique ways that the Integrity Institute can be additive to it.
Meetali Jain, Director of the Tech Justice Law Project, is a longtime ally of the Institute who brings a rich perspective on the shifting policy landscape shaping Integrity work and the ways in which Integrity workers can both respond to and shape that landscape.
We'd also like to thank Paul Gowder for all his service to the Integrity Institute as he rolls off the board after completing his three year term, and announce that Samidh Chakrabarti was voted as Board Chair in May.
Even with all of this foundation-laying we’re still keeping with our core work, already this year:
We’ve continued to release best practices, such as Developing & Launching Content Policies, and seen our best practices cited by the European Commission
We’ve expanded our membership and begun to facilitate regular social and networking events outside of the US
We’ve briefed and advised policy makers around the world, from the US Senate on child safety, to Ofcom in the UK on illegal content, transparency, and child safety, to the DG-CNECT in the EU on algorithmic safety, and policy makers around the world through UNESCO
Our members have continued to play a leadership role in the field, leading a quarter of all sessions at TrustCon and shaping best practices around topics like AI, youth safety and elections.
We’ve shared community expertise on topics such as how companies are adapting to new regulatory regimes, navigating social media during an election year, comparing Instagram search to Google search, and user agency and blocking.
Thank you as always for believing in our work at the Integrity Institute, and to the many of you out there who have meaningfully supported us in getting here. The challenges that the social internet is facing are only getting larger, and we’re honored to be supporting a community that meets them.
Sincerely,
Jeff Allen, on behalf of the Board and Integrity Institute team
Cofounder, Integrity Institute
