beck Haberstroh (they, them) is the Program Manager for Digital Safety Training and Resources at PEN America. In their role, they focus on developing resources, workshops, and other forms of support that meet the digital safety needs of authors, librarians, and faculty. They regularly collaborate with unions, professional associations, community groups, publishers and others to host trainings and events addressing topics such as doxing defense, peer support, and online abuse response protocols.
Haberstroh’s background weaves together a passion for education, the arts, organizing and technology justice. Before coming to PEN America, they taught courses in writing, media, photography, film and performance at the University of California, San Diego and were recognized with a Graduate Teaching Scholar Fellowship. They also worked in education and public programs at Pioneer Works, an interdisciplinary arts space, and Genspace, a community biology lab, both in New York City. As an artist, their work has been shared in Zoom rooms, museums, public parks, black box theaters and galleries. Their writing has been published by Nothing Personal, HereIn, Paper Cameras Press, Syllabus Project, imaginedTheatres and SCREEN_.
Haberstroh has a BA with honors from Brown University and an MFA in visual art from UCSD.