14 Facts About Janneke Parrish

Janneke Parrish was born in Pennsylvania to an American father and Dutch mother, a nurse practitioner, who immigrated to the United States.

Janneke Parrish attended Rosewood High School and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Janneke Parrish then went on to attend North Carolina State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religious studies with a minor in Middle East studies.

Janneke Parrish holds a Master of Science in Human Rights and International Politics from the University of Glasgow.

Janneke Parrish became an advocate for abortion rights after having an abortion at 19 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Janneke Parrish worked in Austin, Texas on the Apple Maps team for five years, first as a data analyst in 2015, and then as a program manager.

Janneke Parrish helped Cher Scarlett organize the movement and together they published some of the stories on Medium, which gained national attention.

Janneke Parrish performed analysis of the stories to create statistics that could track what the stories were about.

Janneke Parrish was placed under investigation for the leak and suspended.

Janneke Parrish was questioned over video conference, and shortly afterward, she said a courier arrived at her home to collect her company-owned devices.

Janneke Parrish deleted screenshots off of the computer she said were of innocuous things like programming bugs she was working on.

Janneke Parrish told The Verge in an interview that Apple encourages employees to use their work phones as their personal phones.

Janneke Parrish continued to post the digests after she was placed under investigation by Apple.

On October 10,2024, the NLRB charged Apple with illegally firing Janneke Parrish for advocating for workplace changes and for restricting its employees' use of social media and Slack in violation of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.