Anne Collier is co-founder and co-director of ConnectSafely.org, the leading interactive resource for parents, teens, educators, advocates and everyone engaged and interested in the impact of the fixed and mobile social Web. The site serves as a public platform to give parents, teens and all stakeholders a voice in the public discussion about social Web safety and youth.

As co-director, Collier is responsible for the day-to-day management of the organization. Her specific responsibilities include updating the site with the latest youth-technology news and safety information, responding to parents' concerns about their kids' well-being online, educating families on real-life approaches and practices for safe, healthy online social lives and providing supporters, media and policymakers with solid information and analysis on social Web safety and youth.

In addition to her role as co-director of ConnectSafely.org, Collier is an author, writer and journalist. As the founder and editor of NetFamilyNews.org, the “community newspaper” for parents and online safety advocates, Collier aims to empower and educate parents with the latest news and information on children’s technology interests and practices. In 2006, Collier added author to her list of roles, when she teamed up with technology analyst, Larry Magid and co-authored, MySpace Unraveled: A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking (Peachpit Press, 206). Collier also provides kid-tech news and commentary to AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, and other organizations.

Prior to ConnectSafely.org, Collier worked on the print, radio and TV versions of the Christian Science Monitor. In 1995, she helped develop and launch the Christian Science Monitor's Web site, CSMonitor.com. Four years later, Collier founded the non-profit Net Family News, Inc., on the premise that information empowers parents at a time when tech literacy has become an essential part of parenting.

Collier currently co-chairs the Online Safety & Technology Working Group at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the first such task force under the Obama administration and serves on the Advisory Councils of the Washington- and London-based Family Online Safety Institute and the National Crime Prevention Council's Circle of Respect Initiative and on the Advisory Board of GetNetWise.org, a project of the Washington-based Internet Education Foundation. In 2008 she served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force administered by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and formed by 49 state attorneys general and MySpace.

Collier has worked in the news media - print, radio, TV and the Web - since 1980. She has contributed to several consumer magazines, as well as GetNetWise.org, Children’s Technology Review, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's NetSmartz.org and the Web site of London-based Childnet International.

A Massachusetts native, Collier holds a B.A. and M.A. degrees from Principia College and the University of Chicago. She currently lives and skis with her husband and two sons in Salt Lake City, Utah.