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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Damian Ngiam

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Head of Trust & Safety, Tencent

Damian Ngiam is a Trust & Safety leader with over … Read more a decade of experience building and scaling safety solutions for some of the world’s largest tech platforms, including Airbnb, Meta, and TikTok. He is currently leading the Trust & Safety function at Tencent. His expertise spans diverse disciplines, from policy development and scaled operations to product strategy, regulatory escalations, and crisis management. Damian has a proven track record of building T&S functions from the ground up in global markets and is passionate about creating safer online communities. A firm believer in collaboration, Damian is eager to share insights and best practices for building a safer digital ecosystem. Read less

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Daniel Waugh

he/him

Project Manager, Meta

Based in Dublin, Daniel is a Project Manager focussing on … Read more harmful content at Meta for more than four years. Working with a variety of cross-functional teams, Daniel’s main areas of expertise include improving media detection and machine learning processes for many T&S problems. Influencing technical teams and product goals and supporting new hires in T&S are some of the key skills Daniel has. Daniel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Psychology from University College Cork (UCC). All from the Technological University Dublin (TUD) he also hold: a Masters Degree in Public Relations, a PostGrad Certificate in Data Science and a Masters of Science in Computer Science. Before Meta, Daniel worked in the youth-focussed NGO sector in campaigns and comms for four years. Read less

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Dave Willner

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Non-Resident Fellow, The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies, Stanford

Dave Willner is a Co-Founder at Zentropi, the company behind … Read more CoPE, a best-in-class small language model capable of accurate and steerable content classification. He was previously a non-resident fellow in Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and worked in industry as Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, as Head of Community Policy at Airbnb, and as Head of Content Policy at Meta (formerly Facebook). Read less

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Del Harvey

she/her

Consultant, Trust & Safety, Self-employed

Del founded, built, and led the global T&S team at … Read more Twitter for its first 13 years. Before joining Twitter, she spent five years as the law enforcement liaison for a non-profit fighting child sexual exploitation, where she worked with agencies ranging from local police departments to the FBI, US Marshals, and the Secret Service. Del’s consulting clients benefit from her unique perspectives on content moderation, online safety, freedom of expression, privacy, and what it takes to lead and scale a global team. Read less

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Deniz Atabey Alkan

she/her

Senior Integrity Operations Manager, Bumble

Deniz currently leads the Integrity Operations team at Bumble, where … Read more she is focusing on finding scalable solutions to tackle abusive online behavior and improve Trust & Safety practices. Over the past eight years, she’s worked at Tiktok, Meta and Snapchat to develop an in-depth understanding of how to prevent abusive behavior based on product, process and policy interventions. In her day-to-day, she partners with various cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Data Science, Legal, Policy and local market teams to solve pain points related to ML development/training, review policies/protocols, operational KPIs and sensitive user/regulatory issues. Deniz is based in London.

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Deniz Duru Aydin

She/her

Policy Manager, Spotify

Trust and Safety expert with over 8 years of industry … Read more experience (Spotify, Meta/Facebook, Google.) Throughout my career in tech, I have enjoyed solving complex problems in alignment with cross-functional teams such as Public Policy, Legal, Comms, Product, and Engineering – both within high-pressure escalation/crisis scenarios and as part of longer term initiatives such as new product launches. As a Policy Manager, I have years of experience in crafting, implementing, and managing policies that protect users from real world harm and ensure the integrity of digital platforms. Highlights of my policy portfolio include: Misinformation (synthetic and manipulated media, health/vaccine misinformation, misinformation during crisis situations), election-related risk mitigation, and product policy (including crafting policies around AI generated content, user prompts, and Search/autocomplete systems.) I also worked on legal policy escalations and government takedown requests. Originally from Istanbul, I have 13+ years of international experience living & working/studying in New York, Oxford, and Dublin. I’m currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Read less

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Dustin Kimmel

he/him

Director of Safety, Vercel Inc.

As an early hire and lead on Twitter's User Safety … Read more Trust & Safety team, Dustin helped shape and scale Twitter’s T&S content policy/policy development processes and went on to start the Product Trust team at Twitter. Additionally, he is the rare policy pro that has also worked as a software engineer. He now runs Trust & Safety for Vercel, a web-hosting company, and—in prior eras—has served as: a hardware startup founder, a National Science Foundation Principal Investigator, and as a designer for the Chicago Reader. Read less

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Elif Dibek

she/her

Content Policy Manager, Meta

Elif has been working in the Trust & Safety space … Read more for the past ten years. Elif joined Meta’s Content Policy team in 2018 as a people manager, also helping develop content policies specialized in misrepresentation and dangerous organizations and individuals policies. In 2020, Elif co-founded a new policy team that develops and scales policies to address account-level and behavioral abuse. Prior to her move to the policy world, Elif worked on payments compliance on Facebook’s Legal team. She wore many hats on this team including data analysis, KYC/AML/due diligence process design, operations, vendor management, supporting on-site regulatory audits and developing policies to ensure legal compliance. Elif is a certified anti-money laundering & counter-terrorist financing (ACAMS). She is located in Dublin, Ireland. Read less

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Hannah Miller

she/her

Senior Policy Manager, AWS

Hannah has worked on policy teams at Pinterest, Twitter, Meta … Read more and now AWS! She is an experienced communicator, organizer, and presenter, with a detailed understanding of the trust and safety policy ecosystem. She has experience in collaborating between technology companies and the civil sector, developing policies for content moderation, internet advertising, and creating product policies. Hannah is based in San Francisco in PST. Read less

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Inbal Goldberger

she/her

VP Trust & Safety, ActiveFence

Inbal is the VP of Trust & Safety at ActiveFence, … Read more a Trust & Safety company that enables the biggest Trust & Safety teams to keep their users safe. Inbal had worked eight years as a senior manager in Google Trust & Safety where she managed 50 people and eight teams, ranging enforcement, escalation management, Intelligence and market specialists. Inbal is a proud winner of 2019 & 2020 Google’s “Inspire” award for her management qualities, and has built herself a reputation of a gifted people manager as per her cultivating talent and people-first approach. Before Google Inbal worked in the Cybersecurity field as an R&D manager at Imperva. Inbal comes from a military background, she served nine years as an Intelligence commanding officer in the military, where she took part in the 2003 Iraq war and played a critical role in counter-terrorism missions. Inbal’s experience in Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, intelligence and her many years in leadership roles positions her as a mentor in great demand. Read less

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Isha Gulati

Manager, Google

Isha currently works as a manager in legal operations for … Read more Google, with a strong background in trust and safety. She specializes in legal operations management and holds rich experience in policy development, and implementing proactive and reactive measures through vendor operations and machine learning models to combat online abuse, including adult content, violence, animal abuse, spam and misinformation. Read less

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James Freedman Aponte

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Director Product Marketing, Business Integrity, Meta

James Freedman Aponte is Meta’s Director of Product Marketing for … Read more Integrity. In this role, he is focused on building products and policies that deliver safe, high-quality, and trusted experiences for users and businesses across ads, shopping, and messaging on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Prior to joining Meta, James helped build and grow products in various industries throughout his 20+ year career. Most recently, he led Google’s Trust & Safety Strategy and Operations team, where he managed the oversight of the organization’s global priorities. Previously, James co-founded Contratan.do, an online services marketplace in Latin America, and managed several technology and banking products at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. James also spent several years in the aerospace and defense industry as an engineer, designing night vision technologies and communication satellites. With a keen focus on equity and community impact, James has served on the Board of Directors of the Simmons YMCA and the Latin American Chamber of Commerce in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also co-chaired the Hispanic / LatinX Employee Resource Groups at Booz Allen Hamilton and Bank of America, and was named a Young Hispanic Corporate Achiever by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility. Read less

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