Responsible Tech DC: A Collaboration in Partnership with Resolver, a Kroll Business
On Wednesday, June 4, All Tech Is Human and Resovler will host a gathering of trust and safety leaders in Washington, D.C. This 200-person gathering aims to foster continued dialogue and collaboration among professionals dedicated to creating a safer, more responsible tech future.
Leaders across the tech industry, civil society, academia, and government will convene for two panels and a networking reception from 6:00 - 9:00pm at Union Stage. Our first panel, featuring Katie Harbath (Founder and CEO, Anchor Change), Aliya Bhatia (Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Democracy and Technology), Joy Park (Senior Policy Lead, Google), and All Tech Is Human’s Sandra Khalil, will delve into the current state of the trust and safety landscape:
Regulation is redefining the boundaries of platform responsibility, user experience, and content moderation. This panel aims to examine how trust and safety policies are adapting to emerging threats amidst shifting global regulatory standards. This panel will interrogate trust and safety policy development and enforcement in today’s climate, as real-world consequences of online harm and the rise of generative AI raise the stakes for adaptive, human-centered platform governance.
The second panel, featuring Scott Vlachos (Executive Director, Council for Emerging National Security Affairs), Colleen Mearn (Head of Enforcement and Operations for AI Safeguards, Anthropic), Juliet Shen (Head of Product, ROOST), and Resolver’s Henry Adams, will explore the future trajectory of the trust and safety ecosystem:
Online harms are shifting in scope and sophistication, with pressure in the Trust and Safety field to move beyond reactive action and toward anticipatory, systemic solutions. Generative AI, synthetic content, and an increasingly polluted information environment are outpacing legacy approaches to governance. What’s to come in the future? How do we achieve our desired end state? This panel will explore how the defining principles of Trust and Safety are evolving across across industries and regions, and what new frameworks, tools, and cross-sector collaborations are required to sustain resilient and rights-respecting digital spaces.
Katie Harbath, Founder and CEO, Anchor Change
Katie Harbath is the founder of Anchor Change, a newsletter and consultancy that explores the complexities of the digital age and global politics. Through her writing, speaking, and advisory work, Katie helps leaders navigate an ever-evolving landscape by combining deep analysis with compelling storytelling to make sense of rapid change.
Described by Foreign Policy Magazine as an “election whisperer to the tech industry,” Katie is a trusted guide for leaders seeking clarity and transformation in a fast-moving world.
Her career spans political campaigns, civil society, and global technology leadership. At Facebook, she spent a decade building and leading international teams that managed elections and empowered governments, political figures, and organizations to connect meaningfully with their audiences. Prior to her time at Facebook, Katie held senior digital roles at the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the DCI Group.
She is a board member at the National Conference on Citizenship, Democracy Works, R Street, the Georgetown Institute of Politics and the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.
Katie graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Aliya Bhatia, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Democracy &and Technology
Aliya Bhatia is a senior policy analyst with CDT’s Free Expression Project where she conducts policy analysis, research, and advocacy on issues related to automated content moderation, children's safety, and multilingual access to online services. She represents CDT on the Trust & Safety Professionals Association, the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, and other multi-stakeholder spaces. She has written for Wired, Tech Policy Press, CNN, and Teen Vogue among other publications.
Joy Park, Senior Policy Lead, Google
Joy Park is a Senior Policy Lead at Google. She leads the global policy development for Play and Android's generative AI features, and on content topics such as election and health misinformation, violent extremism, and hate speech. Previously, Joy was the legal counsel for Asia at Human Rights Foundation, where she led the legal and policy advocacy for the region, working closely with grassroots activists to amplify their voices while focusing on issues relating to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in authoritarian countries. Joy serves as an advisory board member for Preppr, an AI emergency preparedness startup that makes disaster exercises more accessible.
Scott Vlachos, Executive Director, Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA)
Scott H. Vlachos is the Executive Director of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs, an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and national security. His areas of specialization include irregular warfare, operations in the information environment, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. His research has helped inform and shape the Department of Defense’s policies on countering foreign disinformation operations, training U.S. information operators, and countering hybrid malign influence campaigns. His current publications include an analysis of social media algorithm exploitation by terrorist organizations, how extremists leverage disinformation to legitimize their violence, and methods for building resilience against cyberattacks targeting state and local governments. Mr. Vlachos is also a strong advocate of civics education and media literacy. He has lent his expertise to the Disinformation Project’s Talk With Me debate program, which teaches at-risk students critical thinking and logical reasoning skills that they use to dispel radicalizing propaganda. He also serves as an advisor to the Media Education Lab, where he oversees programming aimed at fortifying America’s youth population against foreign malign influence campaigns.
Colleen Mearn, Head of Enforcement and Operations for AI Safeguards, Anthropic
Colleen is the Head of Enforcement & Operations for AI Safeguards at Anthropic. Previously, she was the Head of Trust & Safety at Clubhouse and led Policy Enforcement for Harmful & Dangerous Policies at YouTube. Prior to entering the technology sector, Colleen was an Intelligence Analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Juliet Shen, Head of Product, ROOST
Juliet Shen has dedicated her career to building tools and technology that protect people online. Her areas of expertise include content moderation systems, child safety, abuse detection and enforcement, internal tools, and machine learning.
Juliet is currently the Head of Product at ROOST after incubating the organization within the Trust and Safety Tools Consortium hosted at Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics. Prior to co-founding ROOST, Juliet was a Product Lead at Google where she works on scaled spam and abuse on consumer and enterprise platforms like Workspace. Juliet was previously the Director of Product for Trust & Safety at Grindr and an early member of Snapchat’s Trust & Safety team as its first Product Manager.
About All Tech Is Human
All Tech Is Human moves at the speed of tech while tackling the world's thorniest tech & society issues. With a network of over 50k individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia, our organization is committed to collective understanding, involvement, and action. Through our whole-of-ecosystem approach and three pillars of activities (community-building, educational resources, careers), All Tech Is Human surfaces important values, tensions, trade-offs, and best practices to co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.
Noted activities include our curated gatherings (NYC, SF, DC, London), Slack community of over 12k members across 107 countries, our popular Responsible Tech Job Board, and our yearly Responsible Tech Guide that has defined the field and seeded the next generation of organizations and leaders.
About Resolver Trust & Safety
Resolver Trust & Safety is a trusted intelligence partner to digital platforms, marketplaces and regulators. Operating at the intersection of technology, human insight and online safety expertise, Resolver empowers organisations to detect, understand and act on emerging threats to user wellbeing and brand integrity. Our analysts and intelligence systems operate across on-platform environments as well as the open, deep and dark web. We support our partners with real-time risk identification, cross-platform harm detection and practical insights that strengthen trust, reduce abuse and enhance compliance.
Join us for this meaningful gathering of stakeholders committed to improving the tech ecosystem. Due to high interest and limited capacity, attendance will be curated to ensure a balanced and engaged group.
