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== Education & Research == | == Education & Research == | ||
Savannah attends Columbia University’s Institute on the Study of Human Rights MA program with a concentration on extremism, human rights, and the Internet. Her thesis research explores how online platforms' content features, content policies, and recommendation algorithms facilitate the radicalization of white women to white supremacy. Her | Savannah attends Columbia University’s Institute on the Study of Human Rights MA program with a concentration on extremism, human rights, and the Internet. Her thesis research explores how online platforms' content features, content policies, and recommendation algorithms facilitate the radicalization of white women to white supremacy. Her study focuses on Youtube, reddit, and Twitter. Savannah was was one of fifteen participants selected as a [[NextGen@ICANN|NextGen@ICANN]] member to attend and present her current research at ICANN61 held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from March 10th-15th, 2018. | ||
== Career History == | == Career History == | ||
She currently works as a program manager at Civic Hall – a collaborative community center and nonprofit dedicated to building technology for the public good and helping others do the same. Savannah leads the civic accelerator, [https://www.civichalllabs.org/civicxcel-cohort/ CivicXcel], which provides civically minded professionals, activists, and entrepreneurs with hands-on training on using technology and design thinking to create a solution to a social issue. | She currently works as a program manager at Civic Hall – a collaborative community center and nonprofit dedicated to building technology for the public good and helping others do the same. Savannah leads the civic startup accelerator, [https://www.civichalllabs.org/civicxcel-cohort/ CivicXcel], which provides civically minded professionals, activists, and entrepreneurs with hands-on training on using technology and design thinking to create a solution to a social issue. | ||
Savannah also develops programs, leads campaigns, and delivers | Savannah also develops programs, leads campaigns, and delivers educational workshops focused on gender-based violence prevention. She previously worked as a program manager at [http://us.breakthrough.tv Breakthrough], a human rights organization working to make gender-based violence culturally unacceptable through culture change. At Breakthrough, she managed the fellowship program, action incubator project, and digital organizing strategy. She continues to work with Breakthrough as a program consultant and curriculum developer on their activist incubator program. | ||
She also consults for [https://www.masculinityu.com/ MasculinityU], a coalition of | She also consults for [https://www.masculinityu.com/ MasculinityU], a coalition of gender-based violence practitioners offering a national speakers bureau, curriculum development, advocacy and programmatic consulting, and guided facilitation. Savannah's focus areas are on sexual assault prevention, online harassment and violence education, community organizing, and LGBTQIA+ experiences and issues. | ||
While at UCLA, she was at the forefront of the campus sexual assault movement and created a national sexual violence prevention organization – 7000 in Solidarity.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/changing-the-discussion-on-sexual-assault-ucla-grad-went-from-survivor-to-activist/2015/06/15/a9203b74-0964-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html?utm_term=.ed848cb03138 Washington Post: Changing the discussion on sexual assault: UCLA grad went from survivor to activist]</ref> Her activism was featured on CNN, Aljazeera America, MSNBC, Associated Press, Washington Post, and VICE. She previously consulted universities, legislators, activist groups, California State Legislature, and the Obama White House.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/yes-means-yes-california-sexual-consent The Gaurdian: California adopts historic 'yes means yes' rule on sexual consent]</ref> | While at UCLA, she was at the forefront of the campus sexual assault movement and created a national sexual violence prevention organization – 7000 in Solidarity.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/changing-the-discussion-on-sexual-assault-ucla-grad-went-from-survivor-to-activist/2015/06/15/a9203b74-0964-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html?utm_term=.ed848cb03138 Washington Post: Changing the discussion on sexual assault: UCLA grad went from survivor to activist]</ref> Her activism was featured on CNN, Aljazeera America, MSNBC, Associated Press, Washington Post, and VICE. She previously consulted universities, legislators, activist groups, California State Legislature, and the Obama White House.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/yes-means-yes-california-sexual-consent The Gaurdian: California adopts historic 'yes means yes' rule on sexual consent]</ref> |