Tom Bride is an Account Executive with Logicalis, a global IT services company. He has been in this role for 9 years now, and he has 34 years of experience in the computer industry. Tom works with large hospitals and companies in the Portland Oregon market,
helping them improve their IT systems. Tom also has a great deal of volunteer experience, and served as the president of the Youth Progress Association in Portland
Oregon.

 

Tom and Kristin work in partnership to honor their son Carson and help prevent
this tragedy from happening to other families.

Liz Bride is the mom of two girls and lives the challenges of teens and technology on a
daily basis and has been deeply moved by Kristin and Tom's knowledge and advocacy. 

Liz lives in the Boston area with her husband and daughters and works in financial services in her day job.

Lennon Torres is a trans woman, cultural strategist, and LGBTQ+ advocate shaping the future of online culture and accountability. At Heat Initiative, she drives movement
building, narrative storytelling, and direct action to reclaim the people’s power against big tech. Her work focuses on dismantling harmful systems that put kids and marginalized communities at risk online.

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Lennon’s voice carries weight because she’s lived the story she’s trying to change.

Growing up as a nationally recognized young dancer and early influencer, she amassed a large social media following before the dangers of unregulated platforms were widely understood. That experience—combined with surviving online grooming and attempted

Kristin Bride became a Social Media Reform Advocate after her son Carson died by suicide in 2020 following cyberbullying over Snapchat's anonymous apps.

 

In 2021, she co-founded the Online Harms Prevention Workgroup and filed a national class action lawsuit that led to the immediate

removal of these apps from Snapchat. Kristin’s lawsuit against the anonymous app, Yolo continues after winning a Section 230 appeal to hold the company accountable for product misrepresentation, setting legal precedent.

 

In 2023, Kristin testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee of Congress at the Hearing on Protecting Children Online. On a state level, Kristin helped pass a bullying notification law Oregon HB 2631 (Carson's Law).

 

Kristin serves on Issue One’s Council for Responsible Social Media and is committed to fulfilling Carson’s wish to make the world a better place.

Trisha Prabhu is a 25-year-old anti-hate activist. Trisha's journey began in the 8th grade: at just 13, she invented ReThink, a technology that aims to proactively stop cyberbullying. Since then, Trisha's message to "ReThink hate" has been shared with digital citizens around the world. 

 

Today, Trisha now leads ReThink's non-profit spinout, ReThink Citizens, which is equipping young people with the education and platforms they need to create the digital world they deserve. In 2023 and 2024, ReThink Citizens was recognized and funded by the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund, which is supported by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Archewell Foundation.

Trisha has delivered numerous talks about tackling cyberbullying. She is the author of “ReThink the Internet," which guides young readers through the how's, what's, and why's of good digital citizenship.

Trisha is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. In the future, she hopes to assist policymakers in crafting policy to make the digital world safer.

Linda Douglass was an award-winning political journalist for 35 years. She spent a decade as Chief Capitol Hill Correspondent for ABC News, was a political correspondent for CBS News in Washington and was the chief political correspondent for KNBC and KCBS, Los
Angeles, over her career in news. She covered 6 presidential campaigns.

In 2008, Douglass left journalism to become a spokesperson in Barrack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and later as the Director of Communications in the White House Office of Health Reform.  She joined Atlantic Media as the Senior Vice President for Global Communications and became the Global Head of Communications for Bloomberg News and Media. She is currently a communications consultant, advising clients on strategy, organization, and crisis management. 

 

Douglass also serves on the boards of several other non-profits:  the International Women’s Media Foundation, The New DEAL and Issue One. She is a member on the Council for Responsible Social Media. 

 

“I had long felt that social media could be a dangerous force in society, but I became passionate about that issue after I heard Kristin Bride talk about Carson’s death. To think that the
life of this wonderful boy was plunged into hopelessness by the toxic tentacles of social media is unbearable and infuriating. I resolved to help Kristin fight back.”

Ms. Juyoun Han is a partner leading the Tech & Human Rights Department at her firm, Eisenberg & Baum LLP.  where she focuses on groundbreaking legal issues in artificial intelligence, digital rights, and discrimination from client consultation to U.S. Supreme Court petitions. 

 

Ms. Han is a frequent lecturer at top institutions including Yale, NYU, and Georgetown, and has presented internationally on issues of digital justice, disability rights, and online safety. Her work has influenced legislation and regulation related to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the Copyright Act, and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. She holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law and studied international law at The Hague Academy.

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Ms. Han's legal impact spans key areas such as algorithmic discrimination in healthcare, social media accountability, whistleblower protection, and street art preservation. Her advocacy in social media victim rights includes high-profile cases involving child exploitation and app-related harm. Her academic writing addresses AI bias, medical ethics, and digital censorship, making her a leading voice at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights.