19 Facts About Nicole Wong

Nicole A Wong is an American attorney, specializing in Internet, media and intellectual property law.

Nicole Wong earned the nickname "the Decider" while she was vice president and deputy general counsel at Google, where she was responsible for arbitrating issues of censorship for Google.

Nicole Wong currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business strategy firm, and is a member of the Mozilla Foundation's Board of Directors.

Nicole Wong, a fourth-generation Chinese American, was born in the United States.

Nicole Wong's great-grandfather was a Chinese immigrant who entered the United States through Canada and harvested potatoes in Idaho, worked at a laundry in Michigan and became a cook in Livermore, California.

Nicole Wong grew up in Del Mar, California, and initially wanted to be a journalist because her aunt was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

Nicole Wong attended Georgetown University where she worked as a news editor at the campus paper and radio station.

Nicole Wong has a fellowship in poetry and later received her JD degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 1995.

Nicole Wong was an associate at Perkins Coie LLP in 1997 and was named a partner in 2000.

Nicole Wong represented media clients including the Los Angeles Times, The Walt Disney Company, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Nicole Wong eventually got promoted to Vice President and Deputy General Counsel in 2004.

In November 2012, Nicole Wong left Google and became the legal director of products at Twitter.

Nicole Wong is currently a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group.

Nicole Wong has served on the governing committee of the ABA Communications Law Forum since 2001, and on the board of directors of the First Amendment Coalition since 2007.

Nicole Wong is on the advisory board at University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Nicole Wong previously served on the Board of Governors of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association from 1996 to 1998, and as a co-chair of the Practising Law Institute's Internet Law Institute from 2001 to 2004.

Nicole Wong had testified four times before the US Congress regarding Internet policy.

Nicole Wong has taught media and Internet law courses as an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and University of San Francisco School of Law in 1997 and 1999.

In November 2020, Nicole Wong was named a member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.