Courtney C. Radsch

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Courtney C. Radsch (@courtneyr) is a journalist, author, and advocate whose work focuses on technology, media and rights. She is a fellow at the Center for Media, Data, and Society at Central European University and serves on the masthead of Tech Policy Press. She is the former advocacy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists and a member of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) transparency working group, the OECD TVEC expert group on transparency, and the outreach and partnership chair of GigaNet, the academic network of internet governance scholars.

She holds a Ph.D. in international relations and is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (2016) and Media Development and Countering Violent Extremism: An Uneasy Relationship, a Need for Dialogue (2016), and has written and spoken extensively on the topic of countering violent extremism online.