Lea is the CISO of Lacework and on the board of USENIX. They work to build respect for users into products and systems through deeply-integrated security and privacy. They were previously the CISO and Head of Privacy Engineering at Twitter, Global Lead of Privacy Technology at Google, came in to fix security and privacy at Zoom, and CPO of Humu. They earned a Ph.D. in computer science (with a focus on cryptography) at Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley.