Adam Dodge

Organization: EndTAB

Title of workshop: Kids' lives have gone digital - Parenting hasn’t.

Contents summary:

The digital divide between parents and children - often cited as a key challenge to modern parenting - is also an opportunity for connection.  In this session, EndTAB founder Adam Dodge will explore how parents can narrow the digital divide; better understand the experiences of growing up in a digital world and use this new understanding to prepare our children to thrive in online spaces. 

Biography:

As the founder of EndTAB (End Technology-Enabled Abuse), Adam’s work is characterized by his dedication to addressing the existing and future threats posed by technology to youth and victims of gender-based violence. He has written and presented extensively on cyberstalking, technology-enabled abuse, non-consensual pornography and co-authored the first victim safety guide on the emerging threat of ‘deepfake’ pornography. 

At EndTAB, Adam spends a great deal of his time delivering innovative technology-enabled abuse trainings and presentations to organizations, nonprofits and governments around the world. 

A frequent speaker and lecturer at universities and national conferences, Adam is also a special advisor to the Coalition Against Stalkerware and sits on the World Economic Forum's Digital Justice Advisory Committee. He has worked with technology companies like Bumble, Headspace and Ring to improve the safety and wellbeing of victims of gender-based violence. 

Adam's work and expertise has been featured on CBS and in Vogue, MIT Technology Review, the Washinton Post, SELF Magazine, HuffPost, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, GQ and others. Adam is a licensed attorney in California, and earned his B.A. from UC Santa Barbara and his J.D. by way of McGeorge School of Law and Hastings College of the Law.