Geoffrey Fowler is the Head of Public Engagement for the Youth AI Safety Institute at Common Sense Media. He is a former columnist at The Washington Post, where he advocated for the users of technology. Previously, he worked as a columnist, reporter, and foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, where he covered Big Tech, China, the Olympics, and more. Geoffrey won the Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious honor in business journalism, for commentary in 2020, and was a finalist for commentary in 2024. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Social Anthropology and Afro-American Studies and has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He lives in San Francisco with his family, who have to put up with his never-ending gadget experiments.
