ReThink Citizens Board of Directors
Trisha Prabhu
Trisha Prabhu is a 26-year-old global responsible technology advocate who is widely recognized as one of the first young, Gen Z voices to rethink our digital status quo–and demand a safer, kinder internet. Trisha’s journey began in the 8th grade: at just 13, she invented ReThink, a patented technology that aims to proactively stop cyberbullying. Trisha’s message to “ReThink hate” was ultimately shared with digital citizens around the world. ReThink was featured at Google, The White House Science Fair, and on ABC’s Shark Tank.
Today, Trisha leads ReThink Citizens, a youth-led nonprofit on a mission to empower young people to become changemakers rethinking the internet. To date, the organization has impacted tens of thousands of youth across the country and been recognized/celebrated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Trisha is a passionate public speaker and has delivered 120+ talks in cities around the world (including a TED talk) about reclaiming our humanity in the digital age. She is also the author of ReThink the Internet, a first of its kind “by youth, for youth” guide to responsible digital citizenship. ReThink the Internet was a 2023 ILLINOIS READS pick.
Trisha is JD-MBA joint degree candidate at Yale Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.
Larry Magid
He is CEO of ConnectSafely.org, writes a weekly column for the San Jose Mercury News, and regularly for Forbes.com. He is the host of the twice-weekly ConnectSafely Report for CBS News Radio and a frequent technology analyst on BBC’s World News television and World Service Radio along with local and network stations across the U.S. and around the world. He served for 20 years as the on-air technology analyst for CBS News and host of the popular CBS show, Eye on Tech.
He’s been a contributor to the New York Times and was, for 19 years, a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times with columns appearing in the Washington Post and numerous other papers around the world.
He has written several books including the best-selling Little PC Book and Larry Magid’s Guide to the New Digital Highways.
Larry served on the Obama Administration’s Online Technology Working Group and the Harvard Law School Berkman Center’s Internet Safety Technology Task Force and the board of directors of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and advisory boards of PBS Kids, Internet Congressional Caucus and Family Online Safety Institute as well as safety advisory boards for Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Twitter, Comcast and Roblox. He has a doctor of education degree from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Kristin Bride
In 2020 Kristin lost her son Carson. He took his life after he had been viciously cyber-bullied through anonymous apps on Snapchat. Carson was 16. In the wake of unimaginable loss, Kristin transformed her grief into action.
In 2021, she co-founded the Online Harms Prevention Workgroup. She also filed a national class action lawsuit against anonymous apps Yolo and LMK, forcing Snapchat to immediately remove these apps from its platform.
In 2023, Kristin testified before Congress about the harmful designs used by tech platforms to addict our children. For nearly five years, Kristin has advocated for the strongest online safety legislation for children at both state and federal levels.
Kristin co-founded the annual Social Media Victims Remembrance Day on June 23rd, to honor young people who have lost their lives or suffered severe harm due to social media.
Kristin is a founding member of the survivor parents advocacy group Parents RISE!. She also founded her own nonprofit, the Carson J Bride Effect. Kristin continues to be a leading voice for social media reform.