Marsali Hancock

President and CEO

As president of iKeepSafe.org, Marsali Hancock speaks nationally and internationally on digital citizenship issues: cyber-safety, security and ethics/responsibility.  She serves on industry consumer advisory boards and participates with online safety committees for industry leaders: AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, AOL, Symantec and Webroot.

Ms Hancock is a member of the NTIA Online Safety & Technology Working Group (OSTWG).  She received the 2009 FOSI Award for Outstanding Achievement and was a panelist and moderator at the FOSI conference. She participated in the planning and execution of the PointSmart.ClickSafe. Summit and currently serves on its Blue Ribbon Task Force, making recommendations for industry best practices. As a member of the National Cyber Security Alliance, she sits on the K-12 Educators Working Group to create curricula and set standards and priorities for educators. She was chosen by IMPACT, the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats, as its education partner for development and implementation of new educational strategies.

She is also active internationally as a member of the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Child Online Protection Group (COP) where she was invited to speak at the working group and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) forum in Geneva, Switzerland. She was invited by the EastWest Institute (EWI) to participate in its Worldwide Cybersecurity Summits, exploring new measures to secure the world’s digital infrastructure. Working with the Chinese government, Ms. Hancock produced two bilingual editions of children’s books from the Faux Paw the Techno Cat Internet Safety series: the books (Mandarin-English) address safe and ethical downloading and Internet addiction/managing screen time and are distributed to Beijing schools.

Ms Hancock is one of the noted contributors to the FTC’s NetCetera and served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, convened by 49 state attorneys general and Fox Interactive-MySpace.  She oversees iKeepSafe Coalition business development, strategic plans, and partnerships, including the development of the Faux Paw the Techno Cat® Internet Safety Series and support curriculum, which reaches into more than 100 countries. She also oversees iKeepSafe’s Generation Safe™: New Media Mentor for Digital Citizenship, a new product to help schools navigate the digital environment, protect them from liability, and integrate technology into existing whole school initiatives.

Recent speaking engagements include: Michigan’s Cyber Security Summit 2011, Internet Governance Forum remote panelist, ISTE conference, CUE 2011, Cable Show, Yahoo Digital Citizenship Conference, University of Maryland’s C3 Conference, Project Safe Childhood, The National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) Conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention (US Department of Justice), FOSI Online Safety Conference (Bahrain), Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-free Schools, American School Counselor Association, D.A.R.E. America, Optimist International, AT&T’s National Consumer Advisory Panel, Verizon’s Consumer Advisory Board, Boards of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) conference, StopCyberbullying Coalition Roundtable, and the US Senate.

Ms. Hancock interviews regularly with major media outlets on digital citizenship issues. She lives in Arlington, Virginia and enjoys violin performance, gardening, and traveling with her children.