Trust & Safety Coffee Chats

Trust & Safety Coffee Chats are one-on-one conversations designed to provide mentorship to current and aspiring trust and safety professionals. Hosts are volunteering their time and expertise to offer advice to job seekers and T&S professionals.

How It Works:

• Search for a host based on what you want to talk about.
• Sign-up using the host’s “Schedule a chat” button.
• Come prepared with questions and have a specific goal in mind.

Friendly Reminders:

• Be respectful of our hosts and their time. If you book time with a host, please show up or cancel the booking in advance if the time no longer works for you.
• The TSPA Code of Conduct applies to all resources, spaces, and programming, even if you’re not a TSPA member.
• If you’re just getting started in T&S and want to learn more, we recommend reviewing Careers in T&S and the T&S Curriculum before scheduling.
• Hosts are not conducting formal interviews, offering referrals, providing product feedback, participating in interviews and/or user research, and/or acting on behalf of their employers or TSPA. If you schedule time and you’re not a current or aspiring T&S professional, a host reserves the right to cancel the appointment without notice.
• Double check the time zone when booking. Our hosts are located all over the globe.

If you’re a TSPA member looking for a way to help other folks on their journey in T&S, sign up to be a T&S Coffee Hours host!

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Adrian Brown

Lead Trust & Safety Software Engineer, Red Hat

As the Lead Software Engineer on the Growth and Trust … Read more & Safety team at Yik Yak, Adrian was able to help scale Yik Yak to 1 million DAU’s, build internal trust & safety infrastructure, and close a seed round of $6 million dollars. With his background in engineering, he has had the pleasure of working alongside the brightest minds in the industry throughout his career and has found his passion for building a better internet from his time at Yik Yak to his current role at Red Hat. Read less

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Analuisa Dominguez

she/her

Director, Ads Policy, T&S, Reddit

Ana has over 20 years of international experience. She’s worked … Read more at the UN, Yahoo!, Twitter, and a couple of start-ups in different countries around the world. Ana has managed T&S global teams for 9 years and is experienced in breaching cultural barriers, and using creative and adaptive solutions to foster productive teams. She is an international ambassador to regional teams in global companies and has supported her and other T&S teams improve stakeholder relationships, especially when objectives are disperse. Her most recent role is Global Head of Revenue Policy at Twitter, where she was responsible for revenue policies, advertising platform health, including ads integrity and data analysis, counsel for revenue products, developing and implementing a global strategy for Twitter’s revenue policies. Ana participates regularly in mentorship programs and looks forward to chatting and meeting new T&S professionals! (EST)  

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Andrea Ran

T&S Product Director, TaskUs

With nearly a decade of experience in digital product development … Read more and Trust & Safety, I am passionate about building innovative solutions that make online spaces safer. Currently, I serve as the Director of Product and Innovations for Trust & Safety at TaskUs, where I lead a team focused on leveraging data analysis and cutting-edge technology to develop comprehensive safety solutions for diverse online platforms—ranging from content moderation to fraud prevention. Previously, I played a key role at Red Points, a brand protection software company, where I spearheaded the development and launch of their flagship product. This experience strengthened my expertise in market analysis, user-centric design, and applying AI and machine learning to tackle complex challenges in digital safety. Read less

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Barry Power

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Safety Lead, Pinterest

Barry is based in Dublin and has 8+ years of … Read more Trust & Safety experience under his belt. He originally pursued his studies in music, but when completing his masters thesis on music’s role in dehumanisation, degradation, and suffering, he was introduced to the world of Trust & Safety. He currently works as a Safety Lead at Pinterest having started as a Safety Specialist over 4 years ago and worked his way up the ranks. His main area of expertise is in self harm and mental health on social platforms, however he has vast experience and a keen interest in many other facets of Trust & Safety, such as violent extremism, misinformation, and hateful activities. He has experience working on policy development and implementation, enforcement operations, regulatory frameworks, model development, external partnerships, vendor relations, training and quality, product launches, and escalations management. What makes his job exciting is that no two days are the same, and new challenges are always popping up that require new and innovative solutions. Read less

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Ben Horner

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Product Manager, Fraud & Risk Group, HubSpot

Ben Horner is an accomplished professional in the Trust & … Read more Safety industry, having entered the space in 2022. Currently, he is a product manager at HubSpot, where he plays a pivotal role within the Fraud & Risk group. In this capacity, Ben is responsible for overseeing product strategies and addressing challenges to ensure the security and trustworthiness of HubSpot’s platform. Before stepping into his current role, Ben made significant contributions as the North America (NAM) manager for HubSpot’s Trust & Safety Operations team. In this leadership position, he spearheaded initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and bolster the company’s security measures, thereby ensuring a safe environment for HubSpot’s users. Ben’s journey at HubSpot began in the support division, where he gained invaluable insights into customer needs and the HubSpot platform. His experiences in support laid a strong foundation for his subsequent roles, as he advanced through the ranks by demonstrating exceptional leadership and a steadfast commitment to trust and safety in the digital realm. Read less

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Bethany Smith

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Content Policy Manager, Niantic

Bethany started her tech policy career as a Fellow on … Read more the Twitter Public Policy team. While there, she discovered her love for Trust and Safety and was hired as a Site Policy Specialist. After almost three years, she joined Pinterest’s Content Policy team as a Content Policy Manager and then Senior Manager. She’s currently a Content Policy Manager at Niantic, the company that created PokémonGo. She is located in New York City EST. Read less

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Brian Davis

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Head of Trust & Safety, Dodgeball

Brian's mission is to help educate others in how to … Read more gain trust and better understand your customers. He’s a Trust & Safety leader specializing in building scalable teams and programs from scratch. Brian’s career has been built by simplifying complex ideas and incessantly asking, “Why?”. Currently, he’s the Head of Trust & Safety at Dodgeball where he is an internal advocate and educator for the Trust & Safety community. Read less

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Brittany Allen

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Trust & Safety Architect, Sift

Brittany has thirteen years of experience combating fraud, managing chargeback … Read more

disputes, creating and enforcing policies, and building and scaling fraud teams at companies such as Etsy, Airbnb, 1stdibs, letgo, and Sift. She currently focuses on trust and safety education, developing industry best practices and strategies for merchants, and representing the merchant’s voice at industry conferences and with the media. She serves on the Merchant Risk Council’s Education Committee, is on the Advisory Council for the Cybersecurity Professional Development Program at California State University, Chico, and an Advisor for the Merchant Payment Ecosystems conference.

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Cathryn Weems

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Independent T&S Consultant,

Cathryn Weems has been working in Trust & Safety for … Read more almost 25 years and is currently working as an independent T&S consultant. Originally from the UK, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area over 20 years ago while working at Yahoo! and went on to work at a variety of other tech companies (Flickr, YouTube/Google, Dropbox, Twitter, Epic Games, and Character.AI) throughout her career. She has experience in policy development, people management, global content regulation, child safety, operations, leadership, and handling legal requests from law enforcement/government or IP rights holders. She is a TSPA advisor and member of the Integrity Institute. Her professional passion is supporting and promoting the advancement of T&S as an industry, and more specifically, TSPA as an organization. Read less

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Chanelle Murphy

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Senior Product Manager, Thorn

Chanelle Murphy is a Senior Product Manager with over a … Read more decade of experience turning complex challenges into simple, impactful products. She began her career in political software before moving into trust and safety, leading strategy and product launches at Pex and now Thorn. She’s grateful to help create safer online spaces and looks forward to connecting with this community to talk product, share insights, and learn together. Read less

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Christopher Mommsen

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Moderation Operations Manager, Mercari

Christopher manages the Content Moderation Ops team for Mercari, a … Read more peer to peer e-commerce marketplace. In his time in the T&S space, he would consider his major areas of expertise to be vendor management/alignment, people management, and working to organize knowledge. Before his current role, Christoper worked in enhanced due diligence for a bank, then was working in the BSA/AML space for Mercari for about a year, so he’s am happy to discuss the differences and relationships between BSA compliance work and Trust and Safety/Content Mod. Christopher has also performed enhanced due diligence work on high risk customers, and worked on numerous money laundering and consumer protection related engagements. Christopher is currently located in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Mountain Time, USA) and working remotely so he’s happy to commiserate about working way outside a tech hub, but is afraid he won’t be able to offer too many solutions. He has two school-age kids and has been in his current role for about four years. He looks forward to chatting with folks! Read less

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Christopher Tran

Data Science Manager, Twitch

Chris is currently a senior manager of Data Science, Analytics … Read more at Twitch where he leads a team dedicated to measuring operational performance and identifying patterns and trends with the goal of reducing harm to the Twitch community. Chris has worn many hats in the 9 years he’s dedicated in the Trust and Safety space including, but not limited to, operations at Eventbrite (3.5 years), and data analytics focused on child safety at Facebook (3.5 years).  

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