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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Karley Chadwick

she/her

Head of Trust & Safety Delivery, Resolver, A Kroll Business

With seven years of dedicated experience in the T&S domain, … Read more I have cultivated a multifaceted understanding of online harms. My career in T&S began as a Researcher in Hate Speech and Extremism, focussed on European markets. This has broadened over the years, and as such I have worn many hats – from Election Fraud Monitoring Senior Analyst, to Expert in Suicide & Self-Harm harms. I particularly enjoy researching and discussing the intersectionality of online harms, and especially what harms can mean in a local context vs global. I am currently the Head of Trust & Safety Delivery at Resolver (formerly Crisp Thinking), overseeing operations across global markets, 50+ languages and a variety of expert research teams. I am based in the North of England, within the GMT +1 timezone! Read less

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Kashyap Puranik

He/Him/His

Software Engineer, Trust Lab

I am a software engineer with over 12 years of … Read more experience in Trust and Safety. I’ve led Gmail’s anti-phishing team against a number of phishing, spam and malware attacks. I’ve worked on a number of content-free abuse at YouTube including scraping, engagement abuse, fraud, account take over, bulk account abuse and I’ve spent a year and half at a couple of start ups. I’m currently at Trust Lab building Trust and Safety engineering infra using Generative AI in TnS. I’ve seen many different kinds of adversaries and I understand the best strategies to counter them and I’m happy to share my experiences. Read less

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Katie Harbath

she/her

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

she/her

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 Markell

she/her

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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Louis-Victor de Franssu

CEO & Co-founder, Tremau

Louis-Victor is the co-founder and CEO of Tremau, a T&S … Read more startup that helps online platforms comply in changing regulatory environment. Prior to Tremau, Louis-Victor was deputy to the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs. In this role, he specialized in issues related to tackling illegal content online and disinformation, including leading France’s work on the Christchurch Call to Action and the OECD transparency reporting framework. Prior to joining the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Louis-Victor worked for a leading non-financial risk management consulting firm within the financial industry. Louis-Victor holds an MBA from INSEAD and BA from the University of Notre Dame. 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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Mark Reitblatt

he/him

Software Engineering Manager, Meta

Mark is a software engineering manager with seven years of … Read more professional experience (five as an Individual Contributor), joining Facebook (now Meta) directly after completing a PhD in Computer Science at Cornell. Before his PhD, he worked brief stints at a number of companies, including doing pre-silicon verification at Intel. Mark has been working in the Integrity org at Meta since 2018. In that time, he’s been primarily working on Crisis Response process, programs, and tooling. In the course of responding to crises, he’s had the opportunity to touch almost every aspect of Trust and Safety, ranging from policy, operations, product management, scaled review, measurement, ML and automation, to internal tooling and infrastructure. As a general rule, if it can break and cause an issue in a crisis, he’s probably had to deep dive and fire fight on it. Mark is mainly looking to host other engineers or engineering managers interested in or working in the T&S space, but happy to talk to anyone. He’s currently working remotely out of Seattle, but was previously in the SF Bay Area for several years. Read less

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Matthew Soeth

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Executive Director, Thriving in Games Group (TIGG)

Matthew Soeth is the Executive Director of the Thriving in … Read more Games Group, a global nonprofit supporting video game development and fostering safe online spaces. With a background in business development for tech startups and large platforms, including serving on TikTok’s Global Trust & Safety Team, and head of trust and Safety at Spectrum Labs, he has extensive experience in creator support, and brand safety. He also co-founded the Social Media Helpline, the first U.S. support service for schools addressing social media challenges. A former educator with 15 years of experience, Matt developed policies and resources for online safety in schools and continues to advise nonprofits like the Aaron Judge ALL RISE Foundation. Read less

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Michael Swenson

he/they

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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Nitesh Shivapooja

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Manager, Google Cloud Trust & Safety, Google

Nitesh has been in the Trust & Safety space for … Read more over 10 years, all at Google. He has had the opportunity to work as an IC and manager, and has built teams from the ground up. Nitesh has also developed and executed anti-abuse strategies for various categories of products including Search, G+, Google Drive, Calendar, and others. His team also works on identifying various abuses ranging from Chia mining on Cloud, scaled abuse like spammy notifications/emails and sensitive and egregious content like terrorist content, sexually explicit content, and hate speech. Read less

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Nivedita Mishra

she/her

Partner Manager, Meta

Nivedita has expertise in: Internet Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, … Read more Operations, Mentoring, Team Management, Vendor Management, Project Management. She has more than 15 years experience in the tech industry with 12+ years at Meta across different T&S Operations teams, almost two years at Deloitte on business analysis and content management, and almost one year and two months at Magna Infotech on content management. Nivedita is located in Hyderabad, India (India Standard Time). Read less

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