Holly Grosshans

Holly Grosshans is Senior Counsel for Tech Policy at Common Sense Media. She advances state, federal, and international policies that create safer digital spaces for children and teens and hold technology companies accountable for how their products affect young people. Her work covers addictive social media design, children's online safety and privacy, and the promotion of gambling and gambling-like features to young people.

Holly has helped draft legislation that became law in California, Illinois, and New York. She has also testified before state legislatures and submitted regulatory comments in the United States and abroad, including in Maryland, New York, Colorado, California, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She champions safety-by-design approaches, which require tech companies to build strong privacy and safety protections into products used by children rather than leaving families to manage online risks on their own.

Previously, she spent 15 years as a prosecutor, first in Illinois, where much of her work with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force focused on prosecuting online predators who target children, and then at the U.S. Department of Justice.