Safe Space - Talking Trust and Safety

In this episode of Safe Space, Cassie Coccaro and Pailes Halai talk with Kenya Fairley of Bumble, whose career spans more than two decades of trauma-informed, survivor-centered advocacy and work to address gender-based violence. Together, they discuss what it means to build trust and safety around the needs of people who face harm.

In this episode of Safe Space, Cassie Coccaro and Pailes Halai talk with Ernest Farmer, who leads Rover’s incident safety team. Ernest spent years in emergency management and disaster response. That background gives him a unique approach to T&S in Rover’s online-offline marketplace.

This roundtable episode features Ben Whitelaw, founder and editor of Everything in Moderation; Vaishnavi J, founder of the child safety advisory firm Vys; and Yoel Roth, Head of Trust and Safety at Match Group. Together, they discuss how the T&S field can tell its story more effectively.

In this episode of Safe Space, host Cassie Coccaro sits down with Marc Leone, Head of Trust and Safety at Giphy, for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of trust and safety, the challenge of moderating visual content, and what it takes to build child safety programs at scale.

In this episode of Safe Space, hosts Cassie Coccaro and Pailes Halai talk with Alice Hunsberger, Head of Trust & Safety at Musubi. Alice has spent years working in trust and safety, with experience in online communities, dating apps, vendor operations, and AI safety tools.

In this episode of Safe Space, hosts Cassie Coccaro and Pailes Halai sit down with Dr. Rachel Kowert, research psychologist and one of the leading voices connecting gaming, mental health, and trust and safety.

In this episode of Safe Space, hosts John Starr and Pailes Halai sit down with Lauren Jonas, Head of Youth Wellbeing at OpenAI, to talk about what it takes to design technology that truly supports and protects young people in the age of AI.

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Ryn Linthicum, who brings a unique perspective to AI safety at Anthropic. Ryn shares insights from time spent at TikTok and their current work on Anthropic's safeguards team, where they help build safety into AI models from the ground up. 

David Polgar, founder of All Tech is Human, shares how he built a 55,000-member community focused on responsible technology without a tech background. Polgar reveals the motivations driving trust and safety professionals as they seek to reclaim the internet's original promise of global connection. 

John Starr sits down with our new host, Pailes Halai, Thorn's Sr. Manager of Key Accounts & Partnerships, to hear how he got here and his interest in uncovering the stories of trust and safety pros in the AI industry.