Elaine tells stories that help us face the challenges of digital afterlives.

Elaine is a professor of psychology, an author, and an expert guide through the murkier territories of online life and death. In All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of Your Personal Data (Robinson, 2019), she argues that what happens to our data when we die is the perfect lens for understanding the true power big tech wields over our information, and our identities. She’s currently writing Exposed: A Life in Data (Elliott & Thompson Books), an examination of technology and privacy across the life span, and she just completed her first novel, After Olivia, which takes the experience of meeting an attractive stranger online to a disturbing new level.

When she isn’t writing or speaking, Elaine is a practicing psychotherapist and tells tales onstage and online for live storytelling projects, including The Moth and Mortified. 

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