Jen Weedon
Head of Redteaming and Adversarial Planning, Niantic Labs
2023
Jen Weedon is an experienced and cross-functional leader in ensuring safer experiences online. She began her career in the cybersecurity industry, working to anticipate threats and contextualize their impacts through intelligence analysis and risk management across government, industry, and civil society. A strong advocate for online community welfare, Jen transitioned to focus more directly on user safety while at Facebook from 2015-2022, where she built teams and spearheaded novel efforts focused on identifying and disrupting emerging harms (ranging from child safety, to hate/extremism, to influence campaigns and counter-surveillance). Her innate curiosity eventually led her into the realm of gaming and AR, where she has shifted her focus to preventative work and safety by design. Today, Jen leverages her unique expertise and interdisciplinary experience in building Niantic’s trust and safety program, and is an active mentor and contributor in the trust & safety community.
Jen is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Smith College. She was a Fulbright recipient in Ukraine, a Foreign Policy Interrupted fellow, and a founding fellow of the Integrity Institute. She leads the Trust and Safety Professional Association’s working group on Safety by Design and is a member of the Prosocial Design Network’s Prosocial Technologist Advisory Council.
At the Summit
The inaugural Eradicate Hate Summit was a truly impressive gathering of leaders dedicated to finding lasting and effective solutions to violent extremism. I was particularly moved by the prominence given to survivors and family members of victims of hate and violence throughout the event. Their stories and those of so many others must be at the center of what we do and why we do it.
