CJ Adams is an associate at Google Ideas and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He oversees the development of the Digital Attack Map and Project Shield, an initiative that uses Google’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigation technology to protect free speech online. Before joining Google, Adams worked with the Polaris Project, where he designed and built new tools for combating organized criminal networks–-improving the flow of information between victims, service providers, and law enforcement officers in thousands of human trafficking cases each year. Adams has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and an MBA from the University of Oxford.
