Sean Brooks Email & Phone Number

Davis, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Leads the Community Defense team within Meta's Security Policy organization. The Community Defense team serves as the primary subject matter experts for building resilience against adversarial threats the trust and safety of Meta's users and systems. The team supports product counseling, policy development, risk analysis, threat ideation, and adversarial design for across Meta's family of apps and services.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Leads Threat Ideation for the Security Policy team in the Meta Trust and Safety org. Manages scenario planning and product counseling to help the company get ahead of adversarial threats to elections and civic events, improve the safety of targeted communities, and ensure the integrity of Meta apps and services. Pilots new processes for red teaming, risk assessment, adversarial design, investigation post-mortems, and cross-functional requirements development.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Developed, founded, and directed Citizen Clinic, the world’s first public-interest cybersecurity clinic. The Clinic provides digital safety capacity building services to NGOs, journalists, and human rights defenders at risk of politically motivated online attacks. Built relationships with client organizations, serving 10 separate clients over 2 years. Developed the educational agenda for the clinic, teaching over 40 students from 9 different academic programs. Managed the clinic’s staff, budget, and researchers. Led development for the project, including external partnership formation and fundraising. Managed the CLTC’s project on protecting politically vulnerable organizations, including directing the research agenda and staff. Researched effective methods for cybersecurity technical assistance.https://cltc.berkeley.edu/citizen-clinic/

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Focused on two projects: Investigating the potential for helping vulnerable civil society organizations, journalists, and dissidents develop strong electronic systems that are resistant to sophisticated adversaries. Second, scoping the future of CLTC research on governance and regulatory regimes for cybersecurity, which includes exploring questions related to domestic restructuring of U.S. government agencies, improved interactions between the U.S. government and private sector actors, and improved international collaboration on issues of cybersecurity.

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Subject matter expert on privacy engineering in the NIST Applied Cybersecurity Division. Focused on policy, privacy risk management, best practices, privacy enhancing technologies & legislative proposals concerning privacy in identify management, as well as supporting NIST efforts to engage public & private stakeholders on cybersecurity and privacy. Directly supports stakeholder engagement and grant administration, inter-agency policy development, and the development of new privacy guidance for federal agencies.http://csrc.nist.gov/projects/privacy_engineering/index.htmlhttp://www.nist.gov/nstic/

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Founding graduate fellow supporting a multidisciplinary lab exploring the impact of technology on modern governance, democracy, participation, and decision-making. Supported by the MacArthur and Knight Foundations and hosted by NYU Wagner, the GovLab is partnering with some of the world's leading academic, government, private, and non-profit institutions to improve understanding of how these new dynamics are changing how we address the world's hardest problems.

Conducted research for Committee staff on issues including cybersecurity, international telecommunications regulations, human rights, women's issues, international media development, economic sanctions, international organizations, foreign aid, refugees, security assistance, and judicial and correctional reform.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Supported CDT's West Coast office by assisting in policy analysis and research, producing content for articles and CDT's website, helped plan speaking engagements and events, coordinating media relations and managed the grant reporting process for one of CDT's largest donors. Research for CDT was cited by numerous media outlets including the BBC, Reuters, The Washington Post, Ars Technica, and Kotaku.

London, Gb

Enterprise media relations, social media outreach, corporate blog management, reviews manager, press release/blog writing, general PR duties.

Masters Of Public Administration, International Development, Cybersecurity

Ba, Politics, Theater Arts