John Starr is the VP of Operations & Strategic Impact at Thorn, where he has served on the leadership team for nearly 5 years. Before joining the team at Thorn, John built and scaled the global Trust and Safety content policy team at Twitter, leading safety, identity, counter-CSAM, and integrity policy efforts for the company. The path to T&S work isn’t always obvious; this holds true for John’s journey as well, which includes time as an analyst at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the FBI before he landed at Twitter.

Content marketer by day, creative adventurer the rest of the time. Andrew brings a love of stories and community-building to the Safe Space podcast. When not producing podcast magic, you'll find him trail running and taking film photographs (though never simultaneously) throughout the Sierra foothills, tending to his sourdough starter "baby," or exploring Northern California's food and nature gems with his actual human kids in tow.