Career

Aftab became the chief of the United States. National Action Committee for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s World Citizen"s Committee on Protecting Innocence in Danger group in 1999. In 2005, the United States Congress issued a resolution that recognized her efforts to combat cyberbullying as Executive Director of StopCyberbullying and WiredSafety. She was the co-recipient of the RCMP"s Child Recovery Award in 2011.

Her clients have included Facebook, Disney and Nickelodeon.

In July 2011 her detractors incited a swatting incident at her home when they contacted police claiming her house was the site of murders and hostages. Aftab was on vacation at the time and a local police swat team investigated the false claims.

According to the British blogger Katie Jones, Aftab tried to coerce her into releasing control of the domain, Katie.com, which was also the name of a newly published book Jones refused and wrote about the incident on her website.

Achievements

• In 2010 she received the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director"s Community Leadership Award and was one of 28 members in the Online Safety and Technology Working Group of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Membership

She became a member of the Board of Directors for the non-profit, TRUSTe in 2003. Her organization, WiredSafety, became a member of Facebook"s Safety Advisory Board in 2009 and in April, Aftab appeared on Good Morning America for its Town Hall Meeting on sexting. Aftab was one of the organizers for a 2015 anti-cyberbullying event in Ireland, and has been a member of the advisory boards for Music Television"s A Thin Lincolnshire, Fair Play, Sesame Street Online and the Ad Council.

Members of radical Internet groups who disagree with her anti-cyberbullying campaigns have "launched a massive Internet harassment campaign" against her.