Sarah Gardner

Sarah Gardner is the Founder and CEO of the Heat Initiative, a collective effort of concerned child safety experts and advocates encouraging leading technology companies to detect and eradicate child sexual abuse images and videos on their platforms. She previously served as Vice President of External Affairs at Thorn. During her 10-year tenure at Thorn, Sarah was integral to the organization’s growth from a small, scrappy tech start-up to a multi-million dollar nonprofit. She helped develop Thorn’s plan to eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet and led efforts to win the TED Audacious Prize, which spurred a $63M investment in the organization’s mission 2019.