Emily Parker is CoinDesk’s executive director of global content and a TV anchor on CoinDesk TV. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets. She is the author of “Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground.” Her book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools. She lived and worked in Asia and speaks Chinese and Japanese. Emily has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, BBC and other television and radio shows.