Director
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use

Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D. is the director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use. She has degrees in special education and law. She taught “at risk” children, practiced computer law, and was an educational technology consultant before focusing her professional attention on issues of youth risk online and effective management of student Internet use. Nancy’s emphasis is on applying research insight about youth risk and effective research-based risk prevention approaches to these new concerns of youth risk online.

She has worked in the field of youth risk online since 1995. Nancy is author of two books. Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Cruelty, Threats, and Distress (Research Press) and Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens, Helping Young People Use the Internet Safety and Responsibly (Jossey Bass). CSRIU is introducing narrated slides presentations, with reproducible handouts, for professional development, parents, and students in 2009.

Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use