Laura Tribe was a Senior Technology Policy Fellow at the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society.
Laura Tribe is among Canada’s top digital policy experts and a leading voice representing the public interest in regulatory and policy spaces. She has spent the last 7 years as the Executive Director of OpenMedia, a grassroots non-profit advocating for improved Internet policies in Canada.
Over her career, Laura Tribe has developed policy recommendations curated from the input and priorities of hundreds of thousands of internet users and put them at the forefront of government and corporate decision-making. She has testified before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), appeared before parliamentary committees, and launched a federal investigation into the RCMP’s illegal use of Stingray cell phone surveillance devices.
Laura Tribe holds a BA in Media, Information and Technoculture from Western University and an MA in Communications from Carleton University, where she studied the intersection of human rights and information communication technologies.