Brian Fishman
Co-Founder, Cinder
2021, 2022
Brian Fishman is a co-founder of Cinder, an integrated platform for Trust and Safety. He previously led policy work regarding terrorism and hate organizations at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Fishman served as the director of research at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point; conceived and ran Palantir Technologies’ disaster relief program; worked in-house at New America, a think tank; and worked on Capitol Hill. Fishman authored The Master Plan: ISIS: al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory (Yale University Press, 2016), which was built on a pathbreaking course he taught at West Point in 2008 about the Islamic State’s plan to govern. He maintains affiliations with the Combating Terrorism Center, New America, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the University of California, Berkeley.
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
