Theodora Skeadas is a public policy strategist and thought leader at the forefront of technology ethics, platform governance, and responsible AI.

She currently works as Community Policy Manager at DoorDash, where she develops and implements trust and safety policies to protect users at scale. In addition, Theodora is Head of Red Teaming at Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit committed to collaborative red teaming and improving the safety of generative AI systems. She is also a Strategic Advisor for Technology Policy at All Tech Is Human, where she helps shape cross-sector solutions for more ethical and inclusive tech development, and a member of the Board of Directors at Integrity Institute.

Previously, Theodora worked on Twitter’s global Public Policy team, focusing on human rights, disinformation, content moderation, child exploitation, and managing the company’s Trust and Safety Council. She has also consulted with organizations including National Democratic Institute, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Committee to Protect Journalists, Partnership on AI, Duco, the W7, and the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy at King’s College London, exploring ethical responses to online harms and the governance of emerging technologies. She has an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA from Harvard College.

Research Interests

• Online harms
• Digital authoritarianism
• Just War Theory
• Terrorism

Teaching

• Terrorism, Radicalization, and Extremism

Publications

• Netanyahu's UNGA Speech Escalated Digital Warfare in Gaza: https://www.techpolicy.press/netanyahus-unga-speech-escalated-digital-warfare-in-gaza/
• The Work of AI Red Teaming: Automation and the Human Infrastructure: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715070.3748281
• Control for Whom? Keeping an Eye on the Dark Side of America’s New Wearables Campaign: https://www.techpolicy.press/control-for-whom-keeping-an-eye-on-the-dark-side-of-americas-new-wearables-campaign/
• Red Teaming Generative AI in Classrooms and Beyond: https://www.techpolicy.press/red-teaming-generative-ai-in-classrooms-and-beyond/
• Why The Cloud Should Be a Public Utility: https://www.techpolicy.press/why-the-cloud-should-be-a-public-utility/
• Red Teaming artificial intelligence for social good - The Playbook (UNESCO): https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000394338
• Digital Violence, Real World Harm: Evaluating Survivor-Centric Tools for Intimate Image Abuse in the age of Gen AI: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68a5697a0e26ebf0d8fb10cf/Digital_violence_real_world_harm_evaluating_survivor_centric_tools_for_intimate_image_abuse_in_the_age_of_generative_AI_8_18.pdf
• Reality Check: A New Evaluation Ecosystem Is Necessary to Understand AI's Real World Effects: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18893
• Red Teaming for Trust: Evaluating Multicultural and Multilingual AI Systems in Asia-Pacific: https://openreview.net/forum?id=SPlhZYuH9e
• Prevention by Design: A Roadmap for Tackling TFGBV at the Source: https://techandsocialcohesion.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TFGBV-Report-2025-Final-March-2025.pdf
• Technology Policy Tracker: Advancing Collaboration and Insights in Tech Policy: https://www.integrityinstitute.org/blog/technology-policy-tracker-advancing-collaboration-and-insights
• AI-Ready: An Evaluation Guide for Health and Human Services Agencies: https://digitalgovernmenthub.org/library/ai-ready-an-evaluation-guide-for-health-and-human-services-agencies/
• Preventing and Disrupting the Spread of Gendered Disinformation in the Context of Electoral Processes and Democratic Rollback: https://www.ndi.org/sites/default/files/Conference%20Report%20from%20the%20Global%20Partnership%20Gendered%20Disinformation%20Conference_final.docx.pdf
• Digital Disruption: Measuring the Social and Economic Costs of Internet Shutdowns & Throttling of Access to Twitter: https://www.techpolicy.press/digital-disruption-measuring-the-social-and-economic-costs-of-internet-shutdowns-throttling-of-access-to-twitter/
• Technology Companies Must Make Platforms Safer for Women in Politics: https://www.techpolicy.press/technology-companies-must-make-platforms-safer-for-women-in-politics/
• Comment on Meta’s Approach to the Term “Shaheed”: https://integrityinstitute.org/blog/comment-on-metas-approach-to-the-term-shaheed