Sarah McLaughlin
FIREStaff Speaker
Sarah graduated magna cum laude from Drexel University in 2014 with a B.S. in political science and a minor in history. In 2012, Sarah began working with FIREas a Program Assistant through Drexel’s cooperative education program and remained on ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ’s staff for through the rest of her undergraduate career. After graduation, Sarah defended students and faculty facing censorship in ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ’s Individual Rights Defense Program, where she worked for five years. She also served as director of ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ’s Targeted Advocacy program, where she focused on U.S. universities’ relationship with international threats to free speech and art censorship. Her writing about free speech issues, including protest and blasphemy laws, has been featured in publications including Foreign Policy, Artsy, The Huffington Post, and New York Daily News.
Recent Writings
- Australia blocks social media for teens while UK mulls blasphemy ban,
- Gov. Greg Abbott’s order ‘hardening state government’ against China is dangerously hard to parse,
- From the UK to Germany to Singapore: Police are watching what you post,
- Iranian agents accused of attempted assassination on U.S. soil — again,
- In baffling decision, Harvard excuses violence against student briefly disrupting Chinese diplomat’s speech,
- Police killings worsen crisis of mob violence against Pakistan’s blasphemers,
- Brazil bans X — and threatens daily $9,000 fine for those still trying to use it,
- UN may hand authoritarian governments new weapon to silence dissent,
- UK police threaten to prosecute speech from ‘further afield online’ while internet crackdowns and blackouts strike around the world,
- UK government issues warning: ‘Think before you post’,
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