Ifeoma Ozoma, the founder and principal of Earthseed, a consulting firm supporting individuals, organizations and companies on issues relating to tech accountability, public policy, health misinformation and related communications, will participate in a moderated Q&A discussion with Center for an Informed Public researchers as part of the multidisciplinary research center’s ongoing Invited Speaker Series on Tuesday, May 4 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. PDT.
Members of the public interested in attending this virtual event should register here. (A Zoom link will be sent to registrants approximately 90 minutes prior to the event start.)
Ozoma is a tech policy expert with experience leading global public policy partnerships, public policy related content safety development, and U.S. federal, state, and international policymaker engagement at Pinterest, Facebook, and Google. Her health misinformation initiatives have been lauded by the World Health Organization, The Washington Post’s editorial board and The New York Times. Ozoma received the Healthy Corporate Citizen Award for extraordinary commitment to addressing the determinants of health from the Public Health Association of British Columbia in 2019.
Her consulting firm, Earthseed, is a co-sponsor of the Silenced No More Act, legislation authored by California State Sen. Connie Leyva, will allow every individual in California to share information about discrimination or harassment they have faced on the job, even after signing an NDA. Additional projects she has has taken on include: leading research and an initiative funded by Omidyar Network that will provide tech whistleblowers with needed resources; serving as a juror on the Google News Initiative Covid-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund; advising a United Nations agency on coronavirus vaccine messaging and vaccine misinformation management; serving on the Selection Committee of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public’s Award for Excellence; and advising large nonprofit organizations on addressing misinformation and engagement with large tech platforms.
The CIP’s Invited Speaker Series, which started last fall, has featured leading academics in the misinformation and information literacy research space, including St. John’s University School of Law assistant professor Kate Klonick; Syracuse University School of Information Studies professor Jennifer Stromer-Galley; University of California Irvine associate professor Cailin O’Connor; University of North Carolina Hussman School of Media and Journalism associate professor Deen Freelon; University of Virginia assistant professor David Nemer; and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.