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Amber Scorah
Founder

Amber quietly builds strategy for loud impact. She works with people who know what's broken and need a safe way to act on it. As co-founder of Psst.org, she helped build a secure platform for collective whistleblowing by AI and tech workers. Before that, she built a whistleblower media platform as co-founder of Lioness, helping hundreds of people bring forward public interest information. She also built a bipartisan paid-leave campaign that reached 135,000+ people and both presidential campaigns, and has spent years helping individuals and groups of workers at powerful tech companies figure out the smartest, safest, most impactful way to act.

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In the press
The New York Times
Coverage of Lioness and workers navigating non-disclosure agreements
On the whistleblower media platform Amber cofounded and the workers it helped bring information forward.
WIRED
For Tech Whistleblowers, There's Safety in Numbers
In its Rogue edition, Amber was featured for her work creating a collective approach to whistleblowing in AI and tech.
Columbia Journalism Review
Whisper Networking
On the networks forming among government and tech workers to share information and support each other when speaking up.
Tech Policy Press
Anthropic Warned Big Companies About Mythos. Workers and Watchdogs Need a Seat at the Table.
On how AI accountability groups, unions, and whistleblowers were left out of Anthropic's response to a major cybersecurity crisis — and what it will take for the field to earn a seat at the table.

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