Anne Collier

Editor of NetFamilyNews.org and founder and executive director of its parent organization, Net Family News, Inc., Anne is a writer and journalist who has worked in the news media since 1980. With SafeKids.com's Larry Magid, she co-directs ConnectSafely.org, a project of NFN and the leading interactive forum and information site on Web 2.0 safety. Anne and Larry co-authored MySpace Unraveled: A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking (Peachpit Press, 2006).

Anne founded the nonprofit Net Family News in 1999 on the premise that information empowers parents at a time when tech literacy has become an important part of parenting and key to youth safety on the fixed and mobile social Web. Anne worked on print, radio, TV, and Web versions of the Christian Science Monitor, served as an editor in consumer magazines and Webmaster and information design consultant for nonprofit organiziations, and has contributed to Staysafe.org, GetNetWise.org, Children's Technology Review, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's NetSmartz.org.

Anne currently serves on the advisory boards of the London- and Washington-based Family Online Safety Institute and GetNetWise.org, a project of the Washington-based Internet Education Foundation. In 2008, she served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, formed by 49 state attorneys general and Fox Interactive/MySpace and based at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

A Massachusetts native, Anne holds B.A. and M.A. degrees and now lives and skis with her husband and two sons in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah.