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Date:
October 12, 2026
Start:
4:00pm
End:
5:00pm
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Location:
CCJ 2.310 (Jury Room)
Event type:
Coffee discussion

Join Katie Harbath, founder and CEO of Anchor Change and former Facebook public policy director, for a private coffee and conversation about technology, democracy, elections, and public policy. Drawing on her decade leading Facebook’s global elections team, Harbath will discuss the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology and democratic institutions, as well as career pathways in tech policy, government, and civic technology. The conversation will feature her forthcoming book, Disrupting Politics: A Front Row Seat to the Collision of Technology and Democracy, which offers a firsthand account of the defining moments that reshaped the relationship between technology and politics.

Biography: Katie Harbath is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and a global leader at the intersection of elections, democracy, civic, and tech. She is the founder and CEO of Anchor Change – a civic tech strategies firm focused on developing solutions at the intersection of tech, policy, and business focusing on global issues related to democracy, elections, and civic engagement online.

Prior to starting her own firm, she was a public policy director at Facebook where, over the course of ten years, she was credited with building out and leading a 30-person global team responsible for managing elections. She also played a significant role in building another team of over 30 people that work to get governments and elected officials around the world – at the local, regional, and national levels – to use Facebook and Instagram as a way to connect and engage with constituents.

Please RSVP to Susan Crane (scrane@austin.utexas.edu) if interested.

Specific audiences:
  • Texas Law students
Sponsored by:
  • The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the sponsor listed above or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.