Sarah Jeong (; born 1988) is an American journalist specializing in information technology law and other technology-related topics. A member of the editorial board of The New York Times from 2018 to 2019, she was formerly a senior writer for The Verge and a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book about online harassment.
Early life and education
Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988. When she was three years old, her parents immigrated to New York as students and brought Sarah with them. Raised as a Southern Baptist, Jeong attended a religious high school near Los Angeles. She later told Willamette Week that the Internet helped her to counter religious dogmas of her upbringing such as creation science, saying, "it's how I unbrainwashed myself".
Jeong studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. She received a green card...
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