Career
She is the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). In 2006, York authored Morocco – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture, a travel book on Morocco. In 2008, she joined the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace, where she worked on the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations, and Herdict, and conducted research on distributed denial-of-service attacks.
In 2011, she moved to the EFF, where she is the director of international freedom of expression.
York has been called "one of the leading scholars on Internet control and censorship" and a specialist on free expression and social media in the Arab world. Her research on the role of social media in the Arab Spring has been widely cited.
In June 2011, Foreign Policy named her one of the top-100 intellectuals discussing foreign policy on Twitter. York"s writing on free expression has also been published in The Guardian, Bloomberg and Foreign Policy.
She is a regular columnist for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera English and writes for Global Voices Online, where she is also on its board of directors as of 2011.
In May 2014, she gave a talk with Jacob Appelbaum suggesting the safer sex and harm reduction movements could show advocates of liberty and privacy how their work can better reach mainstream audiences.