Judi Westberg Warren

Judi Westberg Warren has nearly two decades’ experience working with non-profit organizations spanning the nation from Orange County, California to Washington, DC. Since 2004, Westberg Warren has served as president of Web Wise Kids, a national 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that implements innovative and effective educational programs to assist youth to stay safe online and help parents access and utilize trustworthy information about Internet safety. Under her direction, more than ten million ‘tweens and teens and thousands of parents in the U.S. have benefited from Web Wise Kids programs.

In addition to directing the staff and initiatives of Web Wise Kids and serving as a nationally renowned expert on Internet safety for a wide variety of media outlets, Westberg Warren also forges partnerships for the organization with elected officials, law enforcement, educators, corporations, foundations and parents within the internet and digital safety communities. In this way, she helps to ensure that Web Wise Kids’ highly effective programs – designed to be fun, challenging and interactive videogame-style simulations based on real-life scenarios (cyber bullying, cyber crime, sexting) — reach children and parents.

Westberg Warren represents Web Wise Kids at White House Briefings on Children’s Issues, Congressional and Senatorial hearings on Internet safety, Department of Juvenile Justice conferences, and other speaking engagements. In September 2009, Westberg Warren testified before the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Adolescent Web Awareness Requires Education Act (AWARE act, H.R. 3222). She was honored to meet with the Office of the First Lady on the issue of Internet safety and has testified before a Select Committee of the California State Senate and the National Committee on Missing and Exploited Children. She has recently joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) educational working group sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

In 2005, Westberg Warren represented Web Wise Kids and the United States at an international conference on Internet safety in Taiwan. She serves on the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, The Advertising Council Committee on Internet Safety, The Internet National Cyber Security Association, Cyber Safety Advisory Committee for the state of California and The SafetyWeb Product Advisory Council.

Other of Westberg Warren’s career distinctions include a nomination for Orange County (California) Business Woman of the Year by Bank of America in 2005; and being named “One of 20 Women to Watch in 2009 in Orange County” by OC Metro Magazine.

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