Violet Blue (violetblue.com) is a six-time Independent Publisher Book Award winning investigative journalist on cybersecurity, privacy, digital rights, and Covid-19, having bylined for O The Oprah Magazine, Engadget, Financial Times, CNN, CBS News, The San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Science, The Spinoff, and many others. The Guardian called Ms. Blue, "One of the leading figures in tech writing in the world."Ms. Blue's books have sold over 2.2 million copies with translations in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian. Her most notable book appearance was on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her book A Fish Has No Word For Water won 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards GOLD, was a National Indie Book Awards 2023 Finalist, a 2023 Kindle Book Awards Winner, and a Publishers Weekly BookLife Editor's Pick. BookLife/Publisher's Weekly described it as a "Superb memoir." KIRKUS called it "Gripping," urging readers to "Get it."She is a member of the Internet Press Guild, The Authors Guild, The New Zealand Society of Authors, the International Federation of Journalists, PEN, the World Health Network, and Advisor to online legal privacy resource Without My Consent.Ms. Blue has 15 years of experience in leading healthcare crisis communications workshops and trainings. This includes media trainings for UCSF Global Health Masters Program, Yearly UCSF Health immersive NGO trainings (Complex Humanitarian Emergency Training for Doctors Without Borders, American Red Cross applicants) and human rights conventions such as The Oslo Freedom Forum. Ms. Blue led trainings for San Francisco Sex Information's crisis workshops for nurses, therapists, and sexuality and gender students.Her most notable charity contribution was donation of over 200,000 sales of The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, the International Rescue Committee, and the American Civil Liberties Union, raising £3.7m for migrant charities.Ms. Blue's forthcoming book examines Aotearoa New Zealand's internationally praised Covid-19 response, with support from The Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.