Can You Hear Me Now? A Digital Security Training for Movement Lawyering
Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe. What does digital safety and security look like in an increasingly oppressive organizing landscape? How do you ensure that your confidential communications with comrades are protected from state interference and observation? Join Ría Thompson-Washington, mass defense expert and president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild, for an interactive workshop about digital security and safety for movement lawyers.
Faciliated By Ría Thompson-Washington
Ría Thompson-Washington (they/she/elle) is an anti-racist activist, Afro-Latine, Queer, nonbinary feminist living on unceded Anacostean known as Washington, DC. They have spent over twenty years, organizing and training Black and Latine people, working on various campaigns in the Labor movement to Occupy Wall Street, and more recently, providing legal support to Movements. She is the president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild and the founder of Rialistic Strategies, a boutique consulting firm that develops creative, strategic campaign plans through digital organizing and narrative construction for base-building organizations and their members.