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Fighting for victims of harassment online and off, Carrie Goldberg is the tenacious lawyer we need in a post-Weinstein, #MeToo world. Profiled in a major New Yorker feature, and with a memoir and TV show in the works, this charismatic advocate works at the intersection of social justice, cyber security, and human rights—and empowers victims, both men and women, to take back their lives.
Having built a successful law firm from scratch—and one dedicated entirely to victim’s rights—Carrie Goldberg is a new kind of attorney: a powerful young privacy champion who fights back against perpetrators of sexual misconduct. As she puts it, her firm’s purpose is to stop “a**holes, psychos, trolls, and pervs” so that her clients—both men and women, as well as high-profile names like Paz de la Huerta and Emma Cline—can live their lives in peace. In her inspirational, practical, and compelling talks, devoid of legalese and brimming with hope, she speaks about the spread of online harassment, sextortion, and consent—and points to solutions within reach, including what each of us can do to protect ourselves and others. Her memoir Fairer Sex: From the Frontlines of Stalking, Sextortion, and Revenge Porn, on how overcoming her own abuser inspired her to open a victims’ rights firm that provides cutting-edge legal help, is due in 2018 from Penguin Books. CBS is also developing a one-hour drama based on her life and work.
In her groundbreaking case against Grindr on behalf of her client, Goldberg demonstrates an unflinching commitment to holding tech companies accountable for allowing malicious users to instigate abuse on their platforms. Her firm also collaborated with the FBI on major interstate stings, leading to the arrest of her clients’ stalkers, who had executed perverse, relentless, and vicious campaigns that destroyed the lives of innocent people. Furthermore, Goldberg has spent years fighting for underage victims of sexual assault, who have been punished by the NYC schools for reporting their attacks.
Goldberg is actively involved in drafting and advocating for nonconsensual pornography laws on a local, state, and federal level. Her contributions to the 2016 Brookings Institution report on sextortion and the Interstate Sextortion Prevention Act were introduced to Congress by Rep. Katherine Clark and Susan Brooks. She is the recipient of 2017’s Privacy Champion Award from Electronic Privacy Information Center for her inspirational commitment to protecting an individual’s privacy in an age when, as she stated at the awards ceremony, “everybody online is a publisher, voyeur, and exhibitionist.” She was also selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star and Top Women Attorney in New York State, and she is on the board of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a non-profit that fights online abuse and discrimination.