Beth Goldberg ’18 MA, ’18 MBA

Beth Goldberg is a senior fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is the head of research and development at Jigsaw, a Google unit that explores threats to open societies. She leads an interdisciplinary team of researchers who investigate online harms from disinformation to violent extremism. Goldberg works closely with academics, civil society, and technologists to advance applied research on how cognitive and behavioral interventions can mitigate harms online. Alongside anthropologists, she conducted a series of digital ethnographies of conspiracy theorists, harassers, Islamists, and former white supremacists to inform safer tech products and policies.

Prior to joining Jigsaw, Goldberg managed programs for the US Department of State with Freedom House focusing on digital security, investigative journalism, and information access in authoritarian regimes. She previously worked with Amnesty International and Namati to map human rights abuses and provide legal aid. Goldberg is a fellow of the Zeit-Stiftung Program on Global Governance and a senior fellow with Humanity in Action. She serves under the auspices of the US Committee on Science, Technology, and Law on a committee for evolving solutions to counter disinformation at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
 
Goldberg holds a MA in global affairs from the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs and a MBA from the Yale School of Management, as well as a BS in International Politics and Arabic from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.