About the Founder

Trust, safety, and technology policy position companies and organizations to innovate, while also ensuring their products are used responsibly and for their intended purposes. Nile Johnson founded the Labyrinth Consulting Lab as a thoughtful and strategic approach to solving trust, safety, and technology policy challenges for companies, entrepreneurs, technologists, researchers and civil society. Anchored in the concepts of process, progress, and success, this trifecta is the foundation of Nile’s approach to solving these nuanced, multi-stakeholder issues.

Having invested more than 15 years refining the skills necessary to successfully execute this work, Nile’s breadth of experience includes foreign and public policy, trust and safety, regulatory and government affairs, corporate responsibility, board membership, building and scaling programs and internal and external processes, tech startups, and big tech.

Nile began her career as a Team Leader with AmeriCorps, followed by serving at the White House under the Obama Administration, on Capitol Hill, and as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State where she focused on trade and economic policy in Sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe.

After joining a political campaign, Nile launched into tech where she worked for ThousandEyes, Inc., a network intelligence company, and for JUUL Labs, Inc. building its first corporate responsibility and trust program. Following this, Nile joined Google, Inc. as a core member of its inaugural Global Elections Integrity team under the Trust and Safety organization where she drove company-wide global elections strategy across a host of product areas and led dozens of stakeholders across product area enforcement teams and product policy teams to successfully ensure alignment on and policy development of product intelligence, product area risk assessments, escalations, and enforcement. Nile continued her work in trust and safety at Google by leading regulatory transparency in content moderation through a cross-functional team across the U.S and Asia-Pacific, developing and optimizing end-to-end strategic responses to rapidly evolving regulatory challenges in both geographical regions.

Nile has served as one of Hearken, Inc.’s first board members, where she shaped policy decisions and provided oversight of executive leadership with specific focuses on finance, compensation, risk management, and governance. She is also a former Advisory Board member for Marketplace Risk, the world’s foremost resource for risk management, trust and safety, regulatory and compliance, and legal strategy.

Previously the Senior Director for Applied Trust and Safety for the Institute for Security and Technology, Nile built the company’s first trust and safety program, including assembling a 10-member advisory board of trust and safety luminaries from across the industry to inform the strategic direction of the program.

Nile earned her MA in International Affairs from the American University School of International Service, where she is currently an alumni board member, and earned her BA in Philosophy from Spelman College.