Benjamin Shultz is an award-winning online safety expert.
Ben serves as Lead Researcher at the American Sunlight Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit that fights online abuse. He is also a Data Research Fellow at Agora Digital Transformation and an External Doctoral Researcher at the Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences.
Ben began his career in Washington, D.C. analyzing Russian influence operations as a contractor for the U.S. federal government, before moving into research roles across Europe focused on disinformation, democratic backsliding, and social media regulation. He held a fellowship at the Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society in 2025.
Ben completed an M.A. in International Relations at Syracuse University, with stops in Washington, D.C. and Strasbourg, France, after earning a B.A. in Political Science at Sonoma State University. He calls Berlin home.