Carrie Goldberg

Carrie A. Goldberg (born 1977) is an American attorney who specializes in sexual privacy violations,[1][2] with a particular focus on helping victims of revenge porn[2] and online abuse.[3] She represents Lucia Evans and Paz de la Huerta who are both alleged victims of former film producer Harvey Weinstein.[4][5] Her firm is based in Brooklyn, New York City.[2]

Early life

Carrie grew up in Aberdeen, Washington.[6] She received her B.A. degree from Vassar College in 1999[7] and received her J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School.[6]

Career

Before starting her firm, she worked as the Director of Legal Services with the Vera Institute of Justice[2][6] and served as a case manager for victims of the Holocaust.[1][8]

She frequently attributes her experience of being harassed online and sexually extorted by an ex-boyfriend as the motivation behind starting her law firm.[1][2]

Although she is most known for her work against revenge porn, her career as an attorney is multi-focused, including work against sexual extortion,[2][9] online harassment,[3][10] 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[11][12][13] and in 2015 won a nearly $1 million settlement for a teenage client whose report of sexual assault was severely mishandled by her school's administration.[14]

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.[15]

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.[16]

In 2017, Sony Television announced that it was producing a dramatic television series based on Goldberg's life and work.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Turk, Victoria. "Meet the revenge porn lawyer working to put herself out of a job". Wired UK. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Talbot, Margaret. "The attorney fighting revenge porn". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Stewart, Sara (April 18, 2018). "How cyberstalking can ruin women's lives". New York Post. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ Farrow, Ronan. "Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Arrest". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  5. ↑ McKinley Jr., James C. "Prosecutor of Patz's Killer Takes Over Weinstein Inquiry". New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 Fekri, Farnia (April 30, 2017). "Carrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time". Motherboard. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  7. ↑ Pardes, Bronwen. "Cyber Rights". The Alumnae/i Quarterly. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Carrie Goldberg On Her Crusade Against Revenge Porn". MM.LaFleur. July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  9. ↑ Madlena, Chavala (April 5, 2017). "Sextortion: How Hackers Blackmail Young Girls into Performing Sexual Acts". Broadly. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  10. ↑ Goldberg, Carrie. "How to curb online harassment? Technology, law and advocacy can help". Washington Post. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  11. ↑ Stahl, Aviva (June 8, 2016). "'This Is an Epidemic': How NYC Public Schools Punish Girls for Being Raped". Broadly. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  12. ↑ Baker, Katie J.M. "Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  13. ↑ Del Valle, Gaby. "A Teen Alleges She Was Raped at School and Told to "Move On" by Administrators". Teen Vogue. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  14. ↑ Italiano, Laura (July 15, 2018). "City to pay $950K to disabled teen after sex assault by gang". New York Post. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  15. ↑ O'Brien, Sara Ashley. "1,100 strangers showed up at his home for sex. He blames Grindr". CNNMoney. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  16. ↑ "EPIC - EPIC Gives Freedom Awards to Goldberg, Kasparov, Rivest, and Wald". epic.org. Electronic Privacy Information Center. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  17. ↑ Otterson, Joe (September 22, 2017). "CBS Developing Drama Based on Internet Abuse Attorney Carrie Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
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