Violet Blue is a six-time Independent Publisher Book Award winning author and journalist on Covid-19, cybersecurity, and human rights, having bylined for outlets including O The Oprah Magazine, Engadget, Financial Times, CNN, CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, and many others.Ms. Blue's books have sold over 2.2 million copies and translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian. Her most notable book appearance was on The Oprah Winfrey Show.Ms. Blue’s most notable charity contribution was donation of over 200,000 sales of Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, the International Rescue Committee, and the ACLU, raising £3.7m for migrant charities.Her new book A Fish Has No Word For Water won 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards GOLD and selected as National Indie Book Awards 2023 Finalist. KIRKUS calls it “Gripping.” BookLife/Publisher's Weekly describes it as a “Superb memoir” with "Sharp dialogue, incisive observations, and polished prose."ELLE Magazine praised The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy as “An illuminating handbook for women.” Ingram Collection Development Librarian Becky Walton wrote, “Highly recommended for public and school libraries, as well as social science and technology classes.” Book Riot called it “crucial” for digital privacy.Ms. Blue's many other books have been featured in BBC, Blender, Bizarre Magazine, BookRiot, ChicagoNow, CNET, CNN, Columbia Journalism Review, Cosmopolitan UK, Daily Dot, DAME Magazine, ELLE, Forbes, Foreword Reviews, Forum, Gizmodo, Glamour, Guardian UK, Harper's, Jane, Marie Claire, MSNBC, Newsweek, New York Times, NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, PBS Mediashift, Redbook, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Self Magazine, Utne Reader, Vice, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, WebMD, and Wired.She has been a guest on The Tyra Banks Show, CNN, NPR, BBC, and HBO's Thought Crimes.Guardian UK called Ms. Blue, "One of the leading figures in tech writing in the world." She is a member of the Internet Press Guild, Authors Guild, The New Zealand Society of Authors, the World Health Network, and Advisor to legal privacy resource Without My Consent. Her conference appearances include LeWeb, CCC, Forbes Brand Leadership Conference, two Google Tech Talks, and SXSW.Ms. Blue has 15 years' experience leading healthcare crisis communications trainings, including UCSF Global Health Masters Program, UCSF Health Complex Humanitarian Emergency Training for Doctors Without Borders, American Red Cross, and The Oslo Freedom Forum.