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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Inbal Goldberger

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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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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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Justin Paine

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VP of Trust & Safety, Cloudflare

Justin is the VP of Trust & Safety at Cloudflare, … Read more and is located in the San Fransisco Bay Area. He leads a global team responsible for all Trust & Safety matters such as inbound abuse reporting, payment fraud, law enforcement requests for customer information, GDPR/CCPA privacy requests, and global policy creation in close collaboration with the Public Policy, Product Policy, and Legal teams. Justin represents Cloudflare with multiple public and private sector organizations. In his time at Cloudflare his focus has largely been on Trust & Safety for intermediary and infrastructure companies. More recently this focus has expanded to cover domain registrar services, and website/content hosting. Read less

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Katie Harbath

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Chief Global Affairs Officer, Duco

Katie is the Chief Global Affairs Officer at Duco. A … Read more global leader at the intersection of policy, democracy, and technology, Katie’s career spans political campaigns, civil society, and technology. Prior to Duco, Katie spent ten years at Facebook, where she built and led global teams that managed elections and helped government and political figures use the social network to connect with their constituents. Before Facebook, Katie held senior digital roles at the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the DCI Group, as well as multiple campaigns for office. She is a board member at the National Conference on Citizenship, Democracy Works, R Street and the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. Katie writes a weekly newsletter on Substack called Anchor Change and hosts the Impossible Tradeoffs podcast. Read less

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Kim Corcoran

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Sr. Manager, Trust & Safety Incident Operations, Thumbtack

Kim is currently the Senior Manager of Trust and Safety … Read more Incident Operations at Thumbtack, where she supports a team dedicated to ensuring marketplace safety and delivering an exceptional user experience. She also co-leads Thumbtack’s Women’s ERG and champions DEIB initiatives, particularly in recruitment and retention strategies. Prior to Thumbtack, Kim held various roles at Rover.com, ultimately becoming Head of Trust & Safety, Resolutions, and Claims. Kim is known for her data-driven mindset, her ability to implement meaningful change, and her deep understanding of fostering trust within dynamic online platforms. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two dogs. Read less

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Laura Dunne

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Head of Music and Gated Content Policy, Spotify

Based in Dublin, Laura has 11+ years of experience in … Read more global content policy development & enforcement, with particular skills in working with UGC. She started in content moderation at Youtube and has worked in T&S policy at SoundCloud (5 years), Twitter (4.5 years), and now at Spotify, where she heads up policy development for music and gated content. Laura has expertise across a wide variety of safety issues (notably harm, privacy & freedom of expression) and has experience working in: strategic policy development, content moderation, public policy & advocacy, legal requests, crisis comms, incident management, policy comms, automation, and transparency reporting. Read less

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Laura Markell

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Sr. Program Manager, Trust & Safety, Google

Laura has 14 years of experience in trust & safety, … Read more online advertising, and content policy, as well as four years of experience in people management. Since July 2022, she’s been a Senior Program Manager in Google’s Trust & Safety team, spearheading strategic org-wide policy programs within Google’s highest priority trust risk areas (Kids & Family, Civics, Health, Information Quality). Read less

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Margaret Duangpanya

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Sr. Manager, Legal Content Policy, LinkedIn

Margaret (‘Marg’) is a Senior Legal Content Policy Manager at … Read more LinkedIn. Currently based out of Singapore, Marg leads the Account & Behavioral Integrity Policy pillar for LinkedIn’s Digital Safety organization where she and her team work to develop principled and equitable policy solutions to account safety issues at scale. Prior to LinkedIn, Marg worked various roles at the intersection of ops, policy, and law in the SF Bay Area tech circuit before relocating to Singapore to build out a new regulatory, compliance, and legal escalations team at Meta. With over 7+ years working in trust, Marg has extensive experience in global content regulatory frameworks (POFMA, DSA, OSA, EU Code of Practice on Disinfo etc.), policy dev + implementation, and crisis response – often leveraging her background as an attorney to design robust strategies to mitigate online harm. Marg is passionate about connecting with folks interested in, or already a part of, the industry and is looking forward to meeting with you soon! Read less

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Matt Ramirez

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Content Policy Liaison, Meta

Hi friends! Matt has spent much of his career working … Read more in electoral politics, capping his public service experience off as an advisor to Speaker Pelosi. He’s worn a number of hats under policy, communications, strategy, and coalition management. While on Capitol Hill, Matt served as Vice President to the LGBTQ Staff Association, where he worked to hire over 100 staffers to various offices via interview prep, resume review, and other professional development resources. Now, he works with Meta’s content policy organization on transparency and policy development. He lives in San Francisco and has two formal years of trust and safety experience, and nine years of formal political experience. Read less

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Michael Swenson

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Safety Policy Manager, Safety & Wellbeing, Meta

Michael Swenson most recently led the Policy Programs team at … Read more Discord, where they oversee a variety of programs that facilitate direct connections between Discord’s many safety and policy-focused teams with users, moderators, academics, and industry practitioners. Their team engaged in dialogue, research, and education surrounding topics of platform governance, policy acumen and praxis, as well as education and co-creative approaches to facing the platform’s toughest safety challenges. In their prior work, Michael worked in the digital marketing space and in academia, and also has spent many years in online community spaces, helping lead dozens of communities most recently on the Reddit platform. They studied religion and ethics in modern society at Duke University, where they researched religious and political extremism through the lens of post-colonial era critical social theory and anthropological approaches to communities of practice. They also spent several years doing Computer Science work at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they focused on human-centered design, ethics in AI and ML, and educational technology at scale. Read less

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