Adele Zeynep Walton is a British Turkish journalist, online safety campaigner and the author of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World. Adele has channelled a personal loss into campaigning and advocating for a safer digital world. She regularly works with parliamentarians and policy-makers, bereaved families and parents, and fellow tech justice campaigners and activists. She is also the co-founder of Logging Off Club, which brings people together at phone free events to reconnect and explore connection, curiosity and wellness.
Adele is an online safety campaigner with Families and Survivors to Prevent Online Suicide Harm and Bereaved Families for Online Safety. She is also a member of the Online Safety Act Network, Founding Member of Ctrl + Alt + Reclaim, NextGen Advisor at the Sustainable Media Center and Youth Leader of the For Us coalition.
As a freelance journalist Adele has written for The Independent, the i, Dazed, i-D, VICE, Metro, The Big Issue, Jacobin, Open Democracy, Tribune, Huck, gal-dem, The New Arab and more. Her articles have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Swedish, Turkish and Spanish, and she has featured on Times Radio, LBC Radio, Sky News, BBC Radio Scotland and Channel 4 News and more.
