Speaker: Elizabeth Neumann, Chief Strategy Officer, Moonshot.
Title: Moonshot: Bringing Prevention Into the 21st Century.
Abstract: The volume and rate of increase of violent extremism and targeted violence exceeds the ability of traditional counterterrorism tools. The US Government’s embrace of a multi-disciplinary prevention capability coordinated at the state and local levels is a step in the right direction. But with the vast majority of exposure and radicalization occurring online, there is a great need for solutions “upstream” in the radicalization process. Every offline prevention capability needs an online complement. We will explore how evidence-based methods of offline prevention can be applied to the digital space and discuss recent Moonshot campaigns designed to intervene with those seeking harmful content online such as disinformation, conspiracy theories, QAnon, incels, anti-government extremism, white supremacist extremism, and Buddhist extremism.
Bio: Elizabeth Neumann is the Chief Strategy Officer for Moonshot, a social enterprise working to end online harms – such as violent extremism, disinformation, child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence, and human trafficking – by applying evidence, ethics, and human rights. Ms. Neumann recently served as the Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention at DHS where she led eight program and policy teams addressing a range of issues including domestic violent extremism, screening and vetting, countering terrorism and transnational criminal organizations, and human trafficking. Since departing government in 2020, Ms. Neumann passionately educated the public about the growing threat of disinformation and domestic violent extremism through appearances on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, 20/20, and 60 Minutes, among others. She is a Board Member of the National Immigration Forum, founder and member of the Council on National Security and Immigration and a National Security Contributor at ABC News.
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