Cybercrime

Isabel Linzer is an elections and democracy fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology, where she contributes expertise in human rights, democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, and technology to CDT’s research and policy work. Her portfolio includes information resilience, AI and elections, and international democracy and elections. Isabel has worked on these issues in previous roles at Freedom House and with the technology and human rights team at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. While at Freedom House, Isabel led a project tracking the intersection of elections, the internet, and human rights around the world. She also played a key role in establishing a new international policy field on transnational repression, co-authoring reports on digital and physical attacks by governments against their nationals overseas. Isabel’s writing has been published in The Washington Post, Slate, Just Security, and Foreign Affairs, among other leading outlets. She holds a master’s degree in public policy for global affairs from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in government and French from Wesleyan University.