Emily Parker

Emily Parker is CoinDesk's executive director of global strategy. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets. She is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book tells the stories of Internet activists in China, Cuba and Russia. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, called it "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller." Her book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools. She was chief strategy officer at the Silicon Valley social media startup Parlio, which was acquired by Quora. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio shows. Emily has lived in China and Japan and speaks Chinese and Japanese.