Liz Woolery Center for Democracy & Technology
Liz Woolery is a senior policy analyst in New America’s Open Technology Institute. Her work focuses on the intersection of digital free expression, privacy, and transparency. Woolery was a 2014 Google Policy Fellow at OTI, during which time she began work on the Transparency Reporting Toolbox (formerly Transparency Reporting for Beginners). This project aims to encourage more and better transparency reporting through policy research and the creation of a set of tools for internet and telecommunications companies. She interned with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society’s Chilling Effects Clearinghouse in 2013, and worked closely with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Center for Media Law and Policy as a blogger and outreach coordinator. She received her M.A. in media studies from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and her B.A. from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. You can find her on Twitter (@lizwoolery).