CyberParenting: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Perceptions of Youth Internet Use Today

Tim Sparapani, Principal at SPQR Strategies, PLLC, is a legislative, legal and strategic consultant who helps companies understand and respond to the pressures created for businesses, consumers and governments by emerging technologies. Tim’s specialties are privacy, cybersecurity, technology and constitutional law. Tim’s clients are a diverse mix of industry leading companies, dynamic technology startups, and thought leading advocacy organizations.

Tim is a frequent public speaker on topics related to emerging technologies. He has testified before Congress five times and given more than 500 TV, radio and print interviews. Tim writes frequently for Forbes and other publications on these topics.

Tim’s SPQR Strategies clients have asked him to undertake important, ongoing responsibilities. For example, Tim served for 3 years as the Vice President, Policy, Law & Government Affairs for the Application Developers Alliance, a trade association serving more than 30,000 application “app” developers and 200 member companies. Tim has also served as General Counsel for several app company and tech startups. He advises other start-up tech companies on a range of policy matters including cybersecurity, patent reform, online safety and security.

Tim was the first Director of Public Policy at Facebook. Tim was responsible for developing and implementing the company’s interaction with the federal, state, local and foreign governments and with opinion and policy makers. He managed these roles as the company grew from 150 million to more than 900 million active users and from 350 employees to more than 3,000. Prior to joining Facebook, Tim was Senior Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he helped advance the constitutional principle of the right to privacy, representing the ACLU before Congress, the Executive Branch and the media. For the more than four years preceding his time at the ACLU, Tim served as an associate at the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro where he helped clients navigate interconnecting constitutional, statutory, political and policy challenges. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the law school at the University of Michigan.

Meghan Leahy is the mother of three young daughters. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Secondary Education from The Catholic University of America and taught English Literature in a gifted & talented curriculum at an all-boys school for 5 years. Meghan also holds a master’s degree in school counseling from Johns Hopkins University. She's a Parent Educator with PEP (Parent Encouragement Program) in Kensington, MD, and is certified as a Parent Coach through the Center for the Challenging Child, LLC in Roseville MN. She is certified as a Renée Trudeau Personal Renewal Group Facilitator (Mother’s Groups). Meghan is a columnist for The Washington Post, writing about all things parenting and is currently working on her certification to be a facilitator through the Neufeld Institute.

Alicia Kozakiewicz, at age 13, became the victim of an Internet luring and was abducted to another state where she was held captive. She is the founder of The Alicia Project, an international advocate, public speaker, and media personality who has devoted her life to raising awareness of missing persons and protecting children against predatory crime.

She has been featured in PBS’s award-winning, Alicia’s Message and EIE’s Emmy-winning, Alicia’s Story, on the Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Phil, Fox & Friends, Good Morning America, Anderson Live, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, and more, and in numerous publications including People and Cosmopolitan. Additionally, Alicia has joined Investigation Discovery.

She co-authored an OJJDP publication, You’re Not Alone: The Journey From Abduction to Empowerment, testified before Congress, and works to pass Alicia’s Law nationally.

Alicia has received a Jefferson Award and the Courage Award from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Currently, she is working towards her M.A. in Forensic Psychology. Her focus is to not only assist in the recovery of the missing, but also to support those, and their families, who have been affected by abduction and sexual exploitation.

When Rolonda is not working on her academic studies she is involved in a multitude of extracurricular activities mainly focusing on international affairs and politics. She is involved with her schools Model United Nations team including a conference in Tianjin, China. Along with Model UN she is a part of her schools YMCA DC Youth and Government team and one of the 8 students from her school asked to participate in The Aspen Challenge. In Youth and Government youth are asked to write bills regarding current DC issues. For the 3 years she attended she has always written a bill about education. With the Aspen Challenge scholars were given problems in their community to solve over a 6 week time period. Her school chose to host an Embassy Day I order to connect youth from DC with cultures from around the world. You can also find her on the field playing girls’ soccer for her school or cooking a delish dish in her kitchen.

Antigone spearheads the efforts of Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board, a team of leading safety organizations from across the globe that provide Facebook with cutting edge research and advice on best practices, as well as its Global Safety Network.

Antigone also serves on the International Advisory Board for WePROTECT and the boards of the Family Online Safety Institute, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

Prior to joining Meta, Antigone spent 10 years working for a State Attorney General. As Senior Advisor to the Attorney General, she helped establish the office’s first online privacy and safety unit. She also led the National Association of Attorneys General’s 2012-2013 presidential initiative “Privacy in the Digital Age.”

Before serving in the public sector, Antigone used her juris doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School as a corporate attorney and her masters in education as a middle school and high school teacher. Antigone received her B.A. from Columbia University.