Regulation
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Emily Parker was executive director of global content at CoinDesk. Previously, Emily was a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she advised on internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and a staff writer at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup focused on Asian markets. She is the author of “Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book tells the stories of internet activists in China, Cuba, and Russia. Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa called it “a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller.” She was chief strategy officer at Silicon Valley social media startup Parlio, which was acquired by Quora. She has spoken widely around the world and is currently represented by the Leigh Bureau. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and many other TV and radio shows. Her book has been assigned to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD, and other schools. Emily speaks Chinese, Japanese, French, and Spanish. She graduated cum laude from Brown University and has a Master’s degree from Harvard in East Asian Studies. She holds Bitcoin, Ether, and smaller amounts of other cryptocurrencies.