Data Action Day Panel w/ Tracy Chou, Julia Angwin, Ginny Fahs, & Jennifer Strong | January 31, 2023

All Tech Is Human was privileged to host a panel focused on raising awareness and fostering data activism among young people, university students, privacy advocates, and all individuals concerned about their digital privacy! Tracy Chou, Julia Angwin, Ginny Fahs, and moderator Jennifer Strong gathered for a discussion about how to empower people and make informed choices about one’s online presence. Recorded on Monday, January 29, 2024, at Betaworks in New York City.
Tracy Chou is an entrepreneur and software engineer known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech. She is currently the founder and CEO of Block Party, which builds tools for online safety and anti-harassment. Their latest product, Privacy Party, makes it easy to find and fix privacy risks on social.
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a New York Times contributing Opinion writer and a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
Ginny Fahs is the Director, Product R&D - Innovation Lab at Consumer Reports. Prior to joining Consumer Reports, Ginny was a software engineer at Uber and a Technology Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute. At Aspen, she focused on cybersecurity for the elderly and contributed research and design prototypes that are currently being adopted by U.S. government agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Homeland Security.
Jennifer Strong is a producer and journalist based in New York City. She's the creator of several top science and technology podcasts for newsrooms including ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review. Her latest show, SHIFT, launched in 2023 and is distributed by public radio's PRX. Jennifer’s reporting has been recognized by awards juries more than thirty times, including six Webby and three Ambie (Podcast Academy Award) nominations. Her narrative podcasts were finalist selections at the New York Festivals for the last two years, and a finalist for Podcast of the Year by The Drum Awards in London for a taping she did inside an experimental fighter plane.
This panel was made possible through the generous support of Consumer Reports.