Emerald is the Founder and CEO of the Digital Resilience Project, a not-for-profit dedicated to supporting people experiencing technology-facilitated abuse through safe, ethical, and trauma-informed digital safety services. Her work focuses on translating complex cybersecurity and intelligence concepts into practical, real-world interventions that restore control without increasing risk.
Emerald brings over twenty years of experience in open-source intelligence (OSINT). She spent more than a decade within the Australian Government’s security and intelligence community, contributing to national security programs through the application of operational countermeasures underpinned by OSINT capabilities.
More recently, as Principal Intelligence Advisor at OSINT Combine, Emerald advanced ethical, evidence-based approaches to intelligence practice. She now applies this expertise to address critical gaps in the domestic and family violence response system, building capability at the intersection of cybersecurity, safeguarding, and social impact.
