About Pratishtha Arora
Pratishtha Arora is a practitioner-advocate, trust & safety leader and gender and technology specialist with over a decade of experience building safer digital spaces through policy, research, training and field work. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Social & Media Matters (S&MM), a civil society organisation working on digital safety, online rights, media and AI literacy, and child online safety across India and the Asia Pacific. Her work focuses on designing curricula and programmes and provid direct, real-time support to victims of cybercrime. Beyond S&MM, she is a Board Member at SHIELD (Italy), where she leads Regional Strategy for Asia Pacific, is a member of the Bureau of Indian Standards and member of a Trust and Safety Committee.