Angela Sherrer is the Director and Associate General Counsel of Global Law Enforcement and Safety at Twitter. She plays a key role in the identification and mitigation of the legal risks associated with requests for user data, requests for content removal, efforts to curb online abuse, enforcement of Twitter rules, and Twitter’s ability to comply with legal demands and legal requirements from around the world. Before joining Twitter, Angela was an attorney with the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, where she aided executive branch officials in ensuring the privacy and civil liberties of US citizens were protected in national security programs. Angela previously worked as Assistant Counsel to the Governor of New York State, as an attorney in the National Security Division of the US Department of Justice, as a federal prosecutor, as an Associate Counsel of the New York State Division of Human Rights, and as a local prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She has dedicated her career to public service and global work to protect the fundamental human rights of society’s most vulnerable people.
