Ginny Badanes leads Democracy Forward, an initiative within Microsoft\u2019s Technology & Corporate Responsibility organization that is focused on addressing ongoing challenges to the stability of democracies globally. The program includes efforts to protect elections, political parties, campaigns, and NGOs from cyber-enabled threats. The Democracy Forward team also leads Microsoft\u2019s work to improve the information ecosystem, which includes combating disinformation, expanding news distribution, increasing media literacy, and working with community-based programs and newsrooms to use technology to expand their reach. <\/p>\n
Ginny was named to Washingtonian\u2019s 2021 & 2022 \u201cMost Influential People\u201d list for national security and defense. She is a graduate of Duke University and currently lives in Arlington, VA with her husband, Dave, and their three boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11626,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Ginny","last_name":"Badanes","title":"Senior Director, Democracy Forward","organization":"Microsoft","website":"","twitter":"gbadanes","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":""},"event":[98],"class_list":["post-11332","ona_speaker","type-ona_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-ona23"],"yoast_head":"\n