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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Daniel Waugh

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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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Deniz Atabey Alkan

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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Jeff Lazarus

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Strategic Response Manager, Meta

Jeff is a Strategic Response manager at Meta, where he … Read more helps drive leadership/C-Suite decisions on the most important strategic regulatory, safety, and policy issues facing Meta. Before joining Meta in late 2022, he spent a year on the Trust & Safety team at Apple where he was a policy advisor. Prior to Apple Jeff spent several years at Google working in product policy, with a focus on violent extremism and terrorist content. Early in his career, Jeff served as an economic and political analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he focused on the Middle East. Read less

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Jessica Marasa

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T&S Consultant, JM Consulting

Jessica Marasa is the Principal and Founder of JM Consulting, … Read more a firm dedicated to helping global organizations of all sizes improve operations, solve problems, and develop strategies around their most challenging issues. With two decades of experience in the Legal, Forensic Psychology, Trust & Safety, and Law Enforcement Response fields, Jessica brings a deep passion and a unique skill set to her work. Jessica’s expertise lies in handling egregious harms such as terrorism and violent extremism, crimes against children (CSAM, CSEA), threats of harm (to others, self and businesses), as well as engaging with law enforcement entities around the globe. Previously, she served as the Snr Director of Global Law Enforcement Response at Twitch. In this role, she led an international team of professionals managing all aspects of law enforcement requests, egregious harms investigation and critical response. She developed and implemented policies, procedures, and best practices for responding to emergencies and high-risk situations. She’s also worked in the arenas of courtroom/trial psychology, domestic violence, and psychiatric hospitals over the years. As a mental health champion, she also guides the creation of employee wellness programs and internal company safety protocols. Her commitment to collaboration, innovation, and social impact drives her to bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the teams with whom she works. Read less

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Jingyuan Yi

Senior Software Engineer, TikTok

Jingyuan Yi is a Senior Software Engineer at TikTok with … Read more over five years of industry experience. Prior to joining TikTok, he worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for risk control in the financial derivatives space. Jingyuan earned his Master of Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. At TikTok, he focuses on Story creation as well as risk review and mitigation. In this role, he has been instrumental in ensuring that content from renowned companies like Netflix and LinkedIn is created responsibly for the TikTok platform. Jingyuan leverages machine learning to scrutinize text, URL links, and to detect harmful content in images and videos. He has also designed a suite of technical systems to efficiently process user reports and manage content takedowns. Always eager to collaborate with fellow engineers and professionals in the content safety space, Jingyuan is passionate about building robust systems that promote a safe and engaging community on TikTok. Read less

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