Valiant Richey
Global Head of Outreach and Partnerships for Trust & Safety, Tiktok
2023
Valiant (Val) Richey is the Global Head of Outreach and Partnerships for Trust & Safety at TikTok. He leads a team that oversees transparency initiatives, user empowerment programs, and engages civil society to enhance safety on the platform. Prior to this role, Val spent five years at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. Before joining the OSCE, he served for thirteen years as a prosecutor in the United States handling sexual assault, child exploitation and human trafficking cases. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in political science from Boston University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington.
At the Summit
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
