He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Oxford, and UCSD, and is currently Scholar in Residence at the Aspen Institute's Global Leadership Network and Co-Director of a Working Group at Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center.
From 2003 through 2009 he was on staff at Free the Slaves, the sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, itself the world's first and longest-running human rights NGO.
He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California - San Diego, Oxford, and Yale and is a global fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society.
While social media receives the most attention, a wider range of technology deserve causal credit for shaping socio-political change.
A related project undertaken by Choi-Fitzpatrick's Good Drone Lab developed an award-winning method for estimating crowd sizes (NBC lx).