Julia Angwin is the founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Proof News, a new nonprofit journalism studio launching this year. She covers technology policy and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is an investigative journalist and entrepreneur who founded The Markup, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom that produced methodologically precise investigations into the impact of technology on society. She is a longtime technology reporter who led data-driven investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal that were Pulitzer Prize finalists. She was also a member of a team at The Wall Street Journal that won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of corporate corruption. Her New York Times bestseller, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, published in 2014, chronicles her attempts to evade having her data exploited. Her 2009 book, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, was an early look at the promise of social networks and the boardroom battles to control the emerging technology. She has a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. She is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Brown Institute, under the auspices of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.