Sarah Oh is Co-Founder of T2, a new public short text platform.
Sarah has more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of tech and rights-based issues globally, most recently as Human Rights Advisor at Twitter where she is focused on the use of social media to promote and safeguard human rights.
Previously she led Facebook’s crisis response efforts in the Asia-Pacific region as a senior member of the Strategic Response Team within the Office of the CEO and COO. In this role, she oversaw Facebook’s response to major elections and events in the region, including the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar. Sarah instituted path-breaking processes that enabled civil society to influence global product design decisions at the company.
Sarah has advised non-profit organizations focused on media development, violence prevention, and social cohesion for more than a decade. From 2014 to 2017, she designed online hate speech and digital rights programs in Myanmar during the country’s “connectivity revolution” with tech entrepreneurs and grassroots leaders. Sarah began her career at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs where she served as the Institute’s inaugural Silicon Valley Partnerships Representative.
Sarah is currently a Nonresident Fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab at The Atlantic Council and member of Search for Common Ground’s President’s Leadership Council. She was previously a Visiting Scholar at The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute at the University of California.
Sarah earned a B.A. in political science with honors from Northwestern University and grew up in Southern California.