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Emily Parker is CoinDesk’s Executive Director of Global Content. Previously, Emily served on the policy planning staff at the US 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 a co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup focused 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 in Literature, called it “a thoroughly researched and reported account that reads like a thriller”. She was chief strategy officer at Parlio, a social media startup in Silicon Valley, which was acquired by Quora. She has spoken publicly around the world and is currently represented by the Leigh Bureau. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio shows. Her book has been assigned to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD, and other schools. Emily speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated cum laude from Brown University and has a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard. She has Bitcoin, Ether and smaller amounts of other cryptocurrencies.