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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Seema Rekha Shrivastava

She/Her

Managing Director, Antarmanh Consulting

Seema Rekha, Managing Director, Antarmanh Consulting is a passionate, versatile … Read more & visionary strategic management consultant to many corporate organizations, known for her kaleidoscopic approach for bringing perfect solutions to her clients in T&S Industry for over a decade worldwide, while being located in India. She closely works with the senior management team for reengineering the people’s behavior and response at work. Her keen interest area is ‘Emotional Safety & Security at Workplace’. She is a conscious T&S leader and always aims to minimize the unconscious biases. She balances her professional expertise with a compassionate and empathetic approach, and is committed to helping organizations create a culture of inclusivity and diversity. Read less

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Severo Guardado

he/him

Director, Trust & Safety Operations, Cantina AI

Sev Guardado is a seasoned leader in Trust & Safety, … Read more with a background in operations, investigations, compliance, and analytics. For over a decade, Sev has navigated through emergencies, facilitated rapid scaling, and fostered external engagement strategies in various capacities. As a former Director of Trust & Safety at Pinterest, Sev spearheaded the global operations team, ensuring the enforcement of content policies and mitigating risks on a platform catering to over 500 million monthly active users. His leadership extended across content moderation, intellectual property, law enforcement response, and privacy. Prior to his role at Pinterest, Sev held several positions at Facebook, where he helped scale the Trust & Safety function. This included building out teams doing business reporting and analytics, investigations into high-severity user safety issues, project management, and operations–up to and through the 2016 and 2020 US elections. Sev now works at Cantina AI as its Director of Trust & Safety Operations, building out a vision for how to moderate both human bot content and behavior. Read less

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Tolga Bag

he/him

Manager, PR Escalations, Meta

Tolga is currently based in Dublin and works in T&S … Read more at Meta as a people manager in the Risk Management & Intelligence team. He has more than four years of T&S experience gained through complex investigations, global project management and leadership of diverse & high-performing teams to keep the platforms & community safe. Prior to Meta he worked for a global public affairs agency for more than four years, conducting external crisis management, media relations and strategic communications campaigns for clients. Earlier in his career he worked in think tank and political risk sectors. Read less

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Vejeps Ephi Kingsly

Asst. Vice President and Lead – Trust and Safety Practice and Strategy, Genpact

I believe technology's purpose is to serve in our human experience. … Read more

A principle that has guided me in my work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and digital trust. In my current role, I partner across a global canvas of platforms across social, e-commerce, gaming, SaaS, healthcare, advertising, AI, media, payments, and others, operating in 45 markets and impacting communities and businesses in over 100 different languages.

My focus has always been on the future, anticipating the needs of the industry and architecting solutions and building programs to address the evolving needs of technology and humanity at large. In the recent past, I have been focused on fostering the right partnership between human intuition and AI. Evolving not just the capabilities of AI but also systemically transforming a workforce that is professionally skilled to adapt to the new ways of collaborating with AI and is super-specialized. Which I term as the “Technomorphic Specialist Workforce.”

My work extends into diverse leadership and advisory roles between governance and innovation. My intellectual dexterities are sharpened by my passions: the complex systems of aviation, balanced by the deep human narrative found in books. Yet, my true anchor remains the life lessons and lived experiences while asking the perpetual question- What’s next?

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Vina Paglicawan

Senior Director for Wellness + Resiliency, TaskUs

Vina is a credentialed professional coach by ICF (International Coaching … Read more Vina is a credentialed professional coach by ICF (International Coaching Federation) and is currently Senior Director for Wellness and Resiliency for TaskUs, leading a team 50 Senior Managers and Life Coaches supporting more than 42,000 Teammates across Asia. Prior to this role, Vina was an Independent Executive and Leadership Coach and Organization Development Consultant for more than 4 years serving multiple industries. She has more than 30 years of extensive experience in leadership, organization development, and learning – strategizing and implementing organization-wide initiatives and programs that support the business. She has designed and led the execution of learning and development programs for different leadership levels across different organizations (outsourcing, shared services, information technology, software engineering, academe, manufacturing, and financial services) Read less

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Yu-Lan Scholliers

she/her

Head of Product, Checkstep

Yu-Lan is currently Head of Product at Checkstep – a … Read more B2B SaaS startup focusing on building AI/Content Moderation tooling to help platforms with harmful content. Previously, she was in Product Data Science at Meta for five years, across different harm types (for measurement) but also specifically focusing on: Dangerous Organisations, Suicide & Self-Injury, Non-consensual Intimate Imagery, working with some amazing people across tech, policy and operations, focus on harm-specific insights but also transparency reporting, data privacy and compliance. She’s so grateful to be part of T&S, making the world a bit safer every day and she’s keen to meet this community, learn from you, and share what knowledge she has! Read less

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