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Rita Katz

Rita Katz is the founder and executive director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks and analyzes extremist movements. Her decades of experience include assisting in a wide range of governmental terrorism investigations and developing counterterrorism strategies used across the tech sector. Katz is the author of "Saints and Soldiers: Inside the Internet-Age Terrorism, From Syria to the Capitol Siege" (Columbia University Press; October 11, 2022).