Deborah Lauter is Senior Vice President, Policy and Programs, for the Anti-Defamation League, one of the leading civil rights/human relations organizations fighting hatred and bigotry. Based in New York City, she has been with the ADL for sixteen years, having previously served as its National Civil Rights Director and Southeast Regional Director in Atlanta.

Deborah oversees the key areas in ADL’s domestic portfolio, including Civil Rights; Education; the Center on Extremism; Government Relations; and Technology and Society.

Over the past ten years she has supervised ADL’s work to combat hate on the internet, including the publication of ADL’s Cyber Safety Action Guide, a toolkit for users, as well as ADL’s Cyberhate Curriculum for grades 9-12. ADL has also been convening and engaging internet and social networking companies along with the legal community, academia and other civil society organizations in discussions on cyberhate. In October, 2014, ADL released Best Practices for Responding to Cyberhate which provides useful and important guideposts for the industry and users to address the challenges.

Deborah received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law, New York. Prior to joining the staff of ADL she practiced corporate law in San Francisco, and served as the Community Relations Director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

She has published numerous op-eds and articles on issues at the forefront of the American Jewish community, and has appeared on local, national and international radio and television news programs.

Juniper is Google's public policy lead for YouTube. She also works on child safety and controversial content across products. Juniper joined Google in 2012, to lead content policy development for social products, setting policy guidelines for issues like harassment and hate speech. Prior to Google, Juniper practiced law in the public sector. First defending the constitutional rights of public school students as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, and then leading the Santa Clara County Social Justice and Impact Litigation project, where she litigated and worked on policy reform around issues including LGBT equality, criminal justice reform, and health policy. Juniper holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Brown University and a J.D. from New York University, both magna cum laude. She is a certified mediator in New York and California. Before becoming a lawyer, Juniper was a teacher in Oakland, CA.

Monika Bickert is Facebook’s head of product policy. Her global team manages the policies for what types of content can be shared on Facebook and how advertisers and developers can interact with the site. Monika originally joined Facebook in 2012 as lead security counsel, advising the company on matters including child safety and data security.

Prior to joining Facebook, Monika served as Resident Legal Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, where she specialized in Southeast Asian rule of law development and response to child exploitation and human trafficking. She also served as Assistant United States Attorney for 11 years in Washington, DC, and Chicago, prosecuting federal crimes ranging from public corruption to gang-related violence.

Monika received a B.A. in Economics and English from Rice University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.