Silvia Semenzin is an Italian author, scholar and activist, whose work focuses on gender-related violence, digital rights, and emerging technologies, especially blockchain.

[12][13] After her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the UCM, in the ERC grant team of Samer Hassan,[6] and as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.

In November 2018, she was promoter and spokesperson, with the aid of Amnesty International[2] and other organizations, of the Italian national campaign “Intimità Violata” to ask for a law against image-based sexual abuse (revenge porn).

[19][20][21][22] The campaign attracted the support of politicians like former President of the Parliament Laura Boldrini,[23] especially after the dismissal of the Tiziana Cantone suicide case.

Since then, she has become an advocate on online gender-related violence matters,[25] regularly speaking on international media like RTVE,[26] Vanity Fair,[2] Wired,[27] GQ,[28] ANSA,[29] RAC 1,[30] and others.