Violet Blue
Violet Blue is a six-time Independent Publisher Book Award ("IPPY") winning investigative journalist on cybersecurity, Covid-19, privacy, and human rights, having bylined for outlets including O The Oprah Magazine, Engadget, Financial Times, CNN, CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, and many others.
Ms. Blue's books have sold over 2.2 million copies and have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian. Her most notable book appearance was on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Ms. Blue's most notable charity contribution was donation of over 200,000 sales of The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, the International Rescue Committee, and the American Civil Liberties Union, raising £3.7m for migrant charities.
Guardian UK called Ms. Blue, "One of the leading figures in tech writing in the world."
Her new book A Fish Has No Word For Water won 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards GOLD and has been selected as National Indie Book Awards 2023 Finalist. KIRKUS calls it "Gripping." BookLife/Publisher's Weekly describes it as a "Superb memoir" with "Sharp dialogue, incisive observations, and polished prose."
Blue's book on personal digital privacy and security, The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy, was praised by ELLE Magazine as, "An illuminating handbook for women." Ingram Collection Development Librarian Becky Walton wrote, "Highly recommended for public and school libraries, as well as social science and technology classes." Book Riot wrote, "It's up to each one of us to protect our own privacy, and The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy is a crucial weapon in that fight."
Ms. Blue's many other book titles have been featured in BBC, Blender, Bizarre Magazine, BookRiot, ChicagoNow, Cinematical, CNET, CNN, Columbia Journalism Review. Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan UK, Daily Dot, DAME Magazine, ELLE, Forbes, Foreword Reviews, Forum, Gizmodo, Glamour, Guardian UK, Harper's, Jane, Marie Claire, Maxim, Men's Fitness, Men's Health. MSNBC, Newsweek, New York Times, NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, PBS Mediashift, Playboy, Redbook, Salon, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, Savage Love, Self Magazine, SFist, SF Weekly, Utne Reader, Vice (Motherboard), Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, WebMD, and Wired. Her work has been cited in numerous books including David Levy's Love + Sex With Robots, The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, and others.
She has also been a guest on The Tyra Banks Show, CNN, NPR, BBC, and HBO's Thought Crimes.
She is a member of the Internet Press Guild, The Authors Guild, The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ), the World Health Network, and Advisor to online legal privacy resource Without My Consent. Her conference appearances include ETech, LeWeb, CCC, the Forbes Brand Leadership Conference, two Google Tech Talks, and several talks over many years at SXSW Interactive.
Ms. Blue has 15 years of experience in leading healthcare crisis communications workshops and trainings. This includes Media Training for UCSF Global Health Masters Program, Yearly UCSF Health immersive NGO trainings (Complex Humanitarian Emergency Training for Doctors Without Borders, American Red Cross applicants) and human rights conventions such as The Oslo Freedom Forum. Ms. Blue led trainings for San Francisco Sex Information's crisis communications workshops for nurses, therapists, and sexuality and gender students, as well as trained new counselors to staff the organization's emergency hotline.
Ms. Blue's father was a nuclear engineer and mother was a defense engineer for the US government. Blue is the only surviving member of her family and grew up homeless on the streets of San Francisco.
Ms. Blue's additional accomplishments:
Ms. Blue is in no way associated with the unauthorized use of her (trademarked) name and/or likeness in pornographic films.
Ms. Blue's books have sold over 2.2 million copies and have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian. Her most notable book appearance was on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Ms. Blue's most notable charity contribution was donation of over 200,000 sales of The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, the International Rescue Committee, and the American Civil Liberties Union, raising £3.7m for migrant charities.
Guardian UK called Ms. Blue, "One of the leading figures in tech writing in the world."
Her new book A Fish Has No Word For Water won 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards GOLD and has been selected as National Indie Book Awards 2023 Finalist. KIRKUS calls it "Gripping." BookLife/Publisher's Weekly describes it as a "Superb memoir" with "Sharp dialogue, incisive observations, and polished prose."
Blue's book on personal digital privacy and security, The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy, was praised by ELLE Magazine as, "An illuminating handbook for women." Ingram Collection Development Librarian Becky Walton wrote, "Highly recommended for public and school libraries, as well as social science and technology classes." Book Riot wrote, "It's up to each one of us to protect our own privacy, and The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy is a crucial weapon in that fight."
Ms. Blue's many other book titles have been featured in BBC, Blender, Bizarre Magazine, BookRiot, ChicagoNow, Cinematical, CNET, CNN, Columbia Journalism Review. Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan UK, Daily Dot, DAME Magazine, ELLE, Forbes, Foreword Reviews, Forum, Gizmodo, Glamour, Guardian UK, Harper's, Jane, Marie Claire, Maxim, Men's Fitness, Men's Health. MSNBC, Newsweek, New York Times, NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, PBS Mediashift, Playboy, Redbook, Salon, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, Savage Love, Self Magazine, SFist, SF Weekly, Utne Reader, Vice (Motherboard), Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, WebMD, and Wired. Her work has been cited in numerous books including David Levy's Love + Sex With Robots, The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, and others.
She has also been a guest on The Tyra Banks Show, CNN, NPR, BBC, and HBO's Thought Crimes.
She is a member of the Internet Press Guild, The Authors Guild, The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ), the World Health Network, and Advisor to online legal privacy resource Without My Consent. Her conference appearances include ETech, LeWeb, CCC, the Forbes Brand Leadership Conference, two Google Tech Talks, and several talks over many years at SXSW Interactive.
Ms. Blue has 15 years of experience in leading healthcare crisis communications workshops and trainings. This includes Media Training for UCSF Global Health Masters Program, Yearly UCSF Health immersive NGO trainings (Complex Humanitarian Emergency Training for Doctors Without Borders, American Red Cross applicants) and human rights conventions such as The Oslo Freedom Forum. Ms. Blue led trainings for San Francisco Sex Information's crisis communications workshops for nurses, therapists, and sexuality and gender students, as well as trained new counselors to staff the organization's emergency hotline.
Ms. Blue's father was a nuclear engineer and mother was a defense engineer for the US government. Blue is the only surviving member of her family and grew up homeless on the streets of San Francisco.
Ms. Blue's additional accomplishments:
- Ms. Blue has lectured to cyberlaw classes at UC Berkeley (Boalt; Samuelson Law Clinic), colleges and community teaching institutions, UCSF's NGO Global Health Training Program, many international tech conferences (ETech, LeWeb, SXSWi) and co-led a cybersecurity training for high risk journalists at global human rights conference Oslo Freedom Forum. Ms. Blue is a trained crisis counselor.
- Wired's 25 Faces of Innovation, Forbes "The Web Celeb 25"
Ms. Blue is in no way associated with the unauthorized use of her (trademarked) name and/or likeness in pornographic films.
