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Emily Parker is CoinDesk’s Managing Director of Global Content. Previously, Emily was a member of 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 the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup focusing 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 Silicon Valley social media startup Parlio, which was acquired by Quora. She has lectured all over the world and is currently represented by Leigh Bureau. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio programs. Her book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools. Emily speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with honors from Brown University and holds a master’s degree from Harvard in East Asian Studies. She has Bitcoin, Ether and smaller amounts of other cryptocurrencies.