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Carrie Goldberg is an American attorney who specializes in sexual privacy violations,[1][2] with a particular focus on helping victims of revenge porn[3] and online abuse.[4] She represents Lucia Evans[5][6] and Paz de La Huerta[7][8], who are both alleged victims of disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein.[9][10] Her firm is based in Brooklyn, New York. [11]

Early Life

Carrie grew up in Aberdeen, Washington,[12] home of Kurt Cobain.[13] She graduated from Vassar College in 1999[14] and received her law degree from Brooklyn Law School.[15]

Career

Before starting her firm, she worked as the Director of Legal Services with the Vera Institute of Justice[16][17] and served as a case manager for victims of the Holocaust. [18][19]

She frequently attributes her experience of being harassed online and sexually extorted by an ex-boyfriend as the motivation behind starting her law firm.[20][21]

Although she is most known for her work against revenge porn, her career as an attorney is is multi-focused, including work against sexual extortion[22][23], online harassment[24][25], and cyberstalking, as well as representing victims of sexual assault. She frequently calls out the New York City’s Department of Education for not protecting and providing care for African-American female students who were sexually assaulted at school[26][27][28] and recently won a nearly $1million settlement for a teenage client whose report of sexual assault was severely mishandled by her school's administration.[29]

Goldberg also represents Matthew Herrick who is suing gay dating app Grindr for failing to stop a user from sending sexually aggressive men to his home and job under the assumption that they were going to have violent sex.[30]   

She is a Board Member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a non-profit that seeks to bring awareness around the life-altering consequences of being a victim of revenge porn. In 2017, the Electronic Privacy Information Center honored her with the Privacy Champion award.[31]

In 2017, Sony Television announced that it was producing a dramatic television series based on Goldberg's life and work.[32]


References

  1. ^ Turk, Victoria. "Meet the revenge porn lawyer working to put herself out of a job". Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  2. ^ "Taking Trolls to Court". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  3. ^ "Taking Trolls to Court". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  4. ^ "How cyberstalking can ruin women's lives". New York Post. 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  5. ^ "Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Arrest". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  6. ^ "Prosecutor of Patz's Killer Takes Over Weinstein Inquiry". Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  7. ^ "Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Arrest". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  8. ^ "Prosecutor of Patz's Killer Takes Over Weinstein Inquiry". Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  9. ^ "Prosecutor of Patz's Killer Takes Over Weinstein Inquiry". Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  10. ^ "Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Arrest". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  11. ^ "Taking Trolls to Court". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  12. ^ "Carrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time". Motherboard. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  13. ^ "Fire Sweeps Through Museum Of History In Kurt Cobain's Hometown Of Aberdeen". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  14. ^ "Vassar Alumnae/i on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  15. ^ "Carrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time". Motherboard. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  16. ^ "Taking Trolls to Court". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  17. ^ "Carrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time". Motherboard. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  18. ^ Turk, Victoria. "Meet the revenge porn lawyer working to put herself out of a job". Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  19. ^ "Carrie Goldberg On Her Crusade Against Revenge Porn". MM.LaFleur. 2017-07-12. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  20. ^ Turk, Victoria. "Meet the revenge porn lawyer working to put herself out of a job". Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  21. ^ "Taking Trolls to Court". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  22. ^ "Sextortion: How Hackers Blackmail Young Girls into Performing Sexual Acts". Broadly. 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  23. ^ "Taking Trolls to Court". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  24. ^ "How cyberstalking can ruin women's lives". New York Post. 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  25. ^ "How to curb online harassment? Technology, law and advocacy can help". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  26. ^ "'This Is an Epidemic': How NYC Public Schools Punish Girls for Being Raped". Broadly. 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  27. ^ "Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  28. ^ Valle, Gaby Del. "A Teen Alleges She Was Raped at School and Told to "Move On" by Administrators". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  29. ^ "City to pay $950K to disabled teen after sex assault by gang". New York Post. 2018-07-15. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  30. ^ O'Brien, Sara Ashley. "1,100 strangers showed up at his home for sex. He blames Grindr". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  31. ^ Center, Electronic Privacy Information. "EPIC - EPIC Gives Freedom Awards to Goldberg, Kasparov, Rivest, and Wald". epic.org. Retrieved 2018-07-24. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  32. ^ Otterson, Joe (2017-09-22). "CBS Developing Drama Based on Internet Abuse Attorney Carrie Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
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