The BHR Group Digital Rights Careers Newsletter - Issue 1

Dear Colleagues:

This informal and no-frills digital rights jobs list started in 2014 while I was teaching a seminar called Business, Human Rights, and the Internet as an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) Program at Georgetown University. The list was originally intended for MSFS students, and then over the years it expanded to include law, business, and policy students, journalists, human rights activists, academics, government officials, tech company employees, and others. 

The main goal has been to encourage brilliant people like you all to continue to be advocates for digital rights as you work in civil society, industry, government, academia, press, think tanks, as independent experts or activists, and beyond. We need so many more people going into and staying in this field. We’re trying to include roles that cover the intersection of policy, law, and digital rights. We intend to make the list even more international and are committed to making it inclusive both in positions listed and audience reached.

Special thanks to my colleague Rebeca Joy West who re-configured the former jobs list and built a much more sensible one using the Revue platform. If you have a digital rights related position open in your organization or see positions on social media or elsewhere and would like us to include those announcements, you can send those to info@thebhrgroup.com. You’ll also find prior issues archived here. We may eventually add other content focused on careers in digital rights, including, for example, short interviews with digital rights practitioners about their own paths to this field.

In any case, we’ll do our best to pass along useful advice on getting into and practicing in the digital rights field, starting with a list of open positions. We’ll go from there. Disclaimer: I’m not a careers expert, and I’m relying on my own experience in policy, law, and digital rights and especially on the lessons I’ve learned from mentors, students, friends, and from my own mistakes.

You’ll need to sign-up for the free newsletter on Revue here. You don’t need an account, you can just use your email. Welcome and more soon.

Sincerely,

Michael Samway

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Positions in Policy, Law, and Digital Rights

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Academic

Multiple Positions | Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

Senior Associate | Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown Law

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science, Technology and International Affairs | Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Fritz Family Fellowship-Undergrad | Georgetown University

Program Manager, Rebooting Social Media | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Program Director, Rebooting Social Media | The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Senior Research Coordinator for Jonathan Zittrain | The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Community Manager/Research Fellow | UMass Amherst School of Public Policy

Director/Professor of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute | Syracuse University

Chair of Responsible Data Science | School of Data Science, University of Virginia

Civil Society

Director - Communications and Engagement | Access Now

Operations Coordinator | Access Now

Deputy Director for Campaigns, Justice Division | ACLU

Latin America and the Caribbean Coordinator | Alliance for Affordable Internet

Internship: Device Affordability 2022 | Alliance for Affordable Internet

Deputy Director, Broadband and Digital Inclusion | American Library Association

Assistant Director, Technology Policy, Research, and Advocacy | Anti-Defamation League

Project Coordinator + Research Manager + Project Director | Tech Equity Accountability Mechanism (TEAM), Aspen Institute

Civic Innovation Lab Director | BetaNYC

Manager, Technology and Sustainability | BSR

Multiple Positions | Data & Society

Associate Director of Institutional Support | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Multiple Positions | Freedom House

Senior Counsel: Immersive Technologies | Future of Privacy Forum

Senior Geospatial Analyst | Human Rights Watch

Research Fellow, Antitrust and Innovation Policy | Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

Research Fellowship | Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy

Research Fellow, Cyber Operations and Policy (IISS-Americas) Cyber, Space and Future Conflict Programme | International Institute for Strategic Studies

Senior Policy and Advocacy Expert | Internet Society

Consultancy, Research Assistant for the Datasphere Initiative | Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network

Digital Rights Policy Analyst | Miaan Group

Data Protection & Privacy Intern | Mercy Corps

Project Manager-Ukrainian Archive | Mnemonic

Multiple Positions | noyb

Principal, Responsible Technology | Omidyar Network

Technical Lead | OpenArchive

Summer Internships | Open Technology Institute

Policy Counsel or Policy Analyst | Open Technology Institute

Technology Reporter | POLITICO Europe

Consultancy | Privacy International

Operations Manager | Ranking Digital Rights

Senior Program Manager | Ranking Digital Rights

Solving Public Programs Accelerator | The Rockefeller Foundation

Advocacy Director | The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

Privacy Fellow | Wikimedia Foundation

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Industry

Public Policy Manager, South Asia | Airbnb

Corporate Counsel, Content, Content Policy Legal Team | Amazon

Senior Manager, Public Policy | Amazon

Manager, Public Policy | Amazon

Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy | Cloudflare

SVP, Assistant General Counsel, Privacy Legal | citi

Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager, South Asia | Google

Manager, Economic Policy Research, Government Affairs | Google

Manager, Third Parties, Government Affairs and Public Policy, YouTube | Google

Associate Principal, Trust Risk Strategy, Civics | Google

Associate Corporate Counsel, Communications Law | Google

Disinformation Threat Analyst, Threat Analysis Group | Google

Policy Lead, Trust and Safety, YouTube Partner Program | Google

Manager, Search and Information Quality, Government Affairs and Public Policy | Google

Human Rights Program Manager | Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Trust and Safety Content Policy Manager | Niantic

Public Policy Manager, Content Regulation | Meta

Content Policy Manager, Stakeholder Engagement for Transparency and Ranking | Meta

Associate General Counsel, Privacy Programs | Meta

Visiting Researcher (PhD), Artificial Intelligence/Facebook Reality Labs | Meta

Postdoctoral Researcher, Embodied AI (PhD) | Meta

Senior Manager: Digital Human Rights | MTN

Ad Product Policy Senior Manager | Pinterest

Human Rights Director/Sr Manager | Salesforce

Associate Program Manager, Nonprofits - Slack For Good | Slack

Director, Product & Privacy Counsel | Strava

AI Ethics Product Policy Manager - AI Policy Writing | TekVizor

Privacy Program Manager | Twitter

Domain Specialist - Legal Policy, Information Requests | Twitter

Associate Counsel, Product Counsel | Twitter

Multiple Positions | Uber

IIoT Emerging Technologies Counsel | Verizon

Government

Professional Staff, Technology-Enhanced Authoritarianism | The Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Technologists | FTC

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