About Anne Collier
A writer and youth rights advocate, Anne Collier is founder and executive director of the US-based nonprofit Net Safety Collaborative and has been chronicling developments in children and teens' tech and media use at NetFamilyNews.org since 1999. She is currently strategy lead in the development of a child rights-based regulatory sandbox for child online safety and wellbeing, a first in the 25+ year-old field of child online safety. Anne has served on three national task forces on youth Internet safety, advises platforms such as Roblox, YouTube and Yubo and, with scholars at Stanford University, co-edited Social Media and Youth Mental Health, published in 2024 by the American Psychiatric Association.