Shannon Pierson serves as the Senior Fellow of Public-Interest Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, where she conducts flagship research on defending low-resource organizations like nonprofits, municipalities, and schools from cyber attacks. Shannon also organizes the annual Cyber Civil Defense Summit, a mission-based gathering of cybersecurity academics, policymakers, White House officials, hackers, and industry experts working to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. She previously worked on Meta’s Integrity, Investigations, and Intelligence (i3) team and has consulted for Microsoft and other major technology companies. She has also conducted cybersecurity and technology policy research at leading think tanks and research institutions, including the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, the German Marshall Fund, the Wilson Center, and the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy.
