Courtney C. Radsch works on the nexus of technology, media, and human rights as a journalist, scholar, and rights advocate. Currently, she is the director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute where she produces and oversees cutting-edge research into AI and journalism, news media market structures, and technology policy and helps design smart policy solutions to protect and bolster journalism’s financial and editorial independence in the digital age.

Her work is grounded in a feminist empirical research agenda that is focused on mitigating concentrations of power that undermine human rights, democracy, and individual liberty. Her book Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) drew from her pioneering ethnographic research on social movements and technology in the Arab Spring. She completed her PhD in international relations (2013), MS in foreign service (2012) at Georgetown University, and holds a BA in mass communications from UC Berkeley (2000).

Radsch is a senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation, a nonresident fellow at Brookings and the Center for Democracy and Technology, and was a 2022 postdoctoral fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. Her analysis and commentary have been published in top media outlets as well as peer-reviewed and law journals. Radsch has been an advisor to the UN, OECD, OSCE, World Economic Forum, International Science Council, and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and regularly provides expert testimony to policymakers in the United States and around the world. She has led advocacy missions and media assessments in more than a dozen countries and trained journalists and free expression activists around the world.