Bio
Samantha Bradshaw is a CIGI fellow and assistant professor in new technology and security at American University. Samantha completed her Ph.D. at the Oxford Internet Institute and a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where she contributed to the work of the Internet Observatory; the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law; the Program on Democracy and the Internet; and the Digital Civil Society Lab. Her research has been published in New Media & Society, Policy & Internet, Internet Policy Review and the Columbia Journal of International Affairs and featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, the Financial Times, CNN and Bloomberg News. Samantha has spoken on expert panels and delivered keynote lectures around the world and been involved in public policy discussions in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, briefing officials and providing expert-witness testimony about technology’s effects on democracy.