Carrie Goldberg

Carrie A. Goldberg (born 1977) is an American attorney who specializes in sexual privacy violations,[1][2] particularly revenge porn[2] and online abuse.[3] She represents Lucia Evans and Paz de la Huerta, alleged victims of the film producer Harvey Weinstein.[4][5] She is based in Brooklyn, New York City.[2]

Early life and education

Goldberg grew up in Aberdeen, Washington.[6] She received a B.A. degree from Vassar College in 1999[7] and a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School.[6]

Career

Before setting up her firm, she worked as the Director of Legal Services with the Vera Institute of Justice[2][6] and as a case manager for victims of the Holocaust.[1][8]

She says her experience of being harassed online by a former partner was her motivation to start her law firm.[1][2][9]

Her work against revenge porn is best known but her career as an attorney is broader, including work against sexual extortion,[2][10] online harassment,[3][11] and cyberstalking, as well as representing victims of sexual assault. She has criticised New York City Department of Education for failing to protect and to provide care for female African-American students who were sexually assaulted at school[12][13][14] In 2015 she obtained a settlement of $950,000 for a teenage client whose report of sexual assault was badly mishandled by her school's administration.[9][15]

Goldberg also represents Matthew Herrick who is suing the gay dating app Grindr for failing to stop a user from sending sexually aggressive men to his home and job under the assumption that they were going to have violent sex.[16]

She is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a non-profit that tries to raise awareness of life-altering consequences of revenge porn. In 2017, the Electronic Privacy Information Center awarded her a Privacy Champion award.[17]

In 2017, Sony Television announced that it was developing a dramatic television series based on Goldberg's life and work.[18]

Her book, Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls, was published by Plume in August 2019.[19]

References
  1. Turk, Victoria. "Meet the revenge porn lawyer working to put herself out of a job". Wired UK. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  2. Talbot, Margaret. "The attorney fighting revenge porn". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  3. Stewart, Sara (April 18, 2018). "How cyberstalking can ruin women's lives". New York Post. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  4. Farrow, Ronan. "Behind the Scenes of Harvey Weinstein's Arrest". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  5. McKinley Jr., James C. "Prosecutor of Patz's Killer Takes Over Weinstein Inquiry". New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  6. Fekri, Farnia (April 30, 2017). "Carrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time". Motherboard. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  7. Pardes, Bronwen. "Cyber Rights". The Alumnae/i Quarterly. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  8. "Carrie Goldberg On Her Crusade Against Revenge Porn". MM.LaFleur. July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  9. Groves, Gerard; Morton, Henry (February 4, 2019). "Revenge porn: 'I became the lawyer I needed'" (video interview). BBC News.
  10. Madlena, Chavala (April 5, 2017). "Sextortion: How Hackers Blackmail Young Girls into Performing Sexual Acts". Broadly. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  11. Goldberg, Carrie. "How to curb online harassment? Technology, law and advocacy can help". Washington Post. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  12. Stahl, Aviva (June 8, 2016). "'This Is an Epidemic': How NYC Public Schools Punish Girls for Being Raped". Broadly. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  13. Baker, Katie J.M. "Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  14. Del Valle, Gaby. "A Teen Alleges She Was Raped at School and Told to "Move On" by Administrators". Teen Vogue. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  15. Italiano, Laura (July 15, 2018). "City to pay $950K to disabled teen after sex assault by gang". New York Post. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  16. O'Brien, Sara Ashley. "1,100 strangers showed up at his home for sex. He blames Grindr". CNNMoney. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  17. "EPIC - EPIC Gives Freedom Awards to Goldberg, Kasparov, Rivest, and Wald". epic.org. Electronic Privacy Information Center. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  18. Otterson, Joe (September 22, 2017). "CBS Developing Drama Based on Internet Abuse Attorney Carrie Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  19. Goldberg, Carrie (2019-08-13). Nobody's victim : fighting psychos, stalkers, pervs, and trolls. Amber, Jeannine. [New York, New York]. ISBN 9780525533771. OCLC 1111577543.
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