Meet your youth safety team

Vaishnavi is the founder and principal of Vyanams Strategies (VYS). She is an expert in online child safety and privacy as well as age-appropriate design, policy development, and product guidance.

Prior to founding VYS, Vaishnavi spent 15 years developing, and scaling youth safety solutions at leading technology companies. She was the global head of youth policy at Meta, developing age-appropriate content and product policies across Instagram, Facebook, VR, AI, and messaging. She supported product launches such as parental controls, age assurance mechanisms, and interventions across child safety, self-injury, body image, and addictive engagement.

Before joining Meta, Vaishnavi led Twitter’s livestreaming and video content safety efforts, addressing bad actors seeking to exploit users. She was also Twitter’s first head of safety in the Asia-Pacific region, serving a large youth population. She responded to sensitive escalations, trained enforcement vendor teams, and incorporating insights from APAC into global policies and products. Her work spanned issues such as cyberstalking, deepfakes, and schoolyard harassment.

Vaishnavi previously served as Google’s child safety and privacy lead for the Asia-Pacific region. She worked with regional governments to assess emerging child safety regulations, sought civil society and youth perspectives on emerging child safety risks, and used these insights to inform Google’s product and policy prioritization. Vaishnavi began her career at Walt Disney Imagineering, supporting the company’s efforts to build magical and safe experiences for children at its international theme parks.

Jen Weedon brings deep expertise in adversarial thinking, safety by design, and socio-technical risk assessments to help organizations create safer digital experiences. She has spent over 15 years leading trust and safety, threat intelligence, and responsible innovation initiatives at tech companies in industries spanning social media, gaming, and cybersecurity. Most recently at Niantic, she served as Head of Red Teaming and Safety by Design, where she worked cross-functionally to evaluate risks in gaming and AR environments and embed protective strategies into product development—especially for features impacting youth.

Before Niantic, Jen held senior leadership roles at Meta, where she led global threat intelligence teams focused on areas including child safety, human exploitation, and influence operations. Her work helped transition trust and safety strategies from reactive enforcement to proactive, product-informed interventions. Her earlier experience includes cybersecurity and strategic intelligence roles at firms like Mandiant, where she advised both public and private sector clients on global digital threats. Her work has informed regulatory compliance efforts, public policy debates, and product governance for complex, high-risk technologies.

In parallel with her consulting work, Jen is a lecturer and researcher at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she teaches a graduate level course on Trust and Safety and studies emerging practices in AI red teaming. She holds a Master’s from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA from Smith College.

Kira Osborne is an independent consultant recognized for her expertise in technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) and child online protection. She supports governments, international organizations, and civil society by integrating policy analysis, legislative strategy, and stakeholder engagement into evidence based program delivery and capacity building.

As the International TFGBV Lead at Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Kira spearheaded a global TFGBV program and represented Australia as a subject matter expert at CSW68. Her portfolio includes project managing the UNFPA Framework for TFGBV Programming, which serves as a global standard for governments and donors, and co-designing international Social Media Self Defense training for women in politics and human rights defenders.

With a strong presence in the Asia-Pacific, Kira co-convened the Pacific Online Safety Symposium and led the co-design of Pacific specific training for frontline workers across the region. She has also undertaken extensive national research to establish actionable baselines for prevention and response across multilateral systems. Grounded in feminist, trauma-informed, and rights-based principles, Kira centers lived experience to ensure digital safety responses are ethical, practical, and effective. Ultimately, her work is driven by a commitment to fostering safe online spaces where policy and technology serve as catalysts for empowerment rather than instruments of harm, translating theory into tangible, real world action.

Chloé is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in Trust & Safety, policy management, and community operations. She has worked with industry leaders such as Twitter, Meta, and TaskUs, combining hands-on operational expertise with research into emerging Trust & Safety trends. 

With a strong background in detection, automation, and moderation workflows, she has supported companies in building and scaling their safety strategies and processes effectively. Her work spans many different areas of Trust & Safety, making her highly versatile in adapting to diverse challenges.

Chloé studied Humanitarian Project Management and Foreign Languages, developing a unique ability to approach complex global challenges with cultural fluency and analytical insight. Passionate about creating safer digital environments, she is committed to innovating in trust and safety operations or policy developmen

Kristin Alvandi is a social entrepreneur and child safety specialist whose work spans anti-trafficking initiatives and global technology driven harm prevention. Her career is rooted in
the belief that products when led with safety by design can protect the most vulnerable.

Kristin brings to Vys her experience as a Child Safety Specialist at Thorn, where she advises global technology platforms on policy and operations to combat child sexual abuse material online. In her work, Kristin has partnered with Trust and Safety teams to build out workflows for proactive CSAM detection systems, reduce false positives, and strengthen compliance with international child safety regulations.

Kristin is also the founder and former Managing Director of Sewing New Futures, a social enterprise in Delhi, India, that empowered survivors of sex trafficking and their children through vocational training, fair-wage employment, education access, and social justice. Under her leadership, the organization scaled from the first year impacting ten survivors to her fifth year impacting more than several thousands. Her work bridges lived experience, technology, and prevention focused on building safer systems for children worldwide.