Fighting for Human Rights and Women's Rights in the Digital Age

NOELLE MARTIN
A World Leading Voice on Deepfake Abuse. Award-Winning Activist and Law Reform Campaigner. Lawyer. PhD Candidate. Media Commentator. Advisor. Keynote Speaker. Feminist.
LAW AND POLICY

Noelle Martin has a Bachelor of Laws and Arts (major in philosophy) from Macquarie University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Western Australia.
She was admitted as a lawyer in Western Australia in 2020.
She has worked as a judge's associate (Research Orderly) at the Supreme Court of Western Australia, and at the Department of Justice in Western Australia.
She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Western Australia Law School. Her research focuses on the regulation of technologies of human replication (deepfakes, generative AI, and hyper-realistic avatars).
Her Higher Degree by Research is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST IMAGE-BASED ABUSE/DEEPFAKE ABUSE
Since Noelle Martin was a teenager, she has been the target of perpetrators creating and distributing fake intimate images and deepfake videos of her without consent. She has turned her survival story into a global fight for justice.
She was awarded Young Western Australian of the Year in 2019, listed as an honoree on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list of 2019, nominated for Advocate of the Year for the marie claire 2023 Women of the Year Awards, and listed on marie claire's 2023 Power List of '20 Women Who Have Inspired Us this Year' for her efforts to help criminalise image-based sexual abuse across Australia, and advocate for justice in the digital rights space.
She was the only Australian to stand with two Attorney Generals - in New South Wales and Western Australia - at history-making press conferences announcing new criminal offences to distribute, record, and threaten to distribute or record, intimate images and videos without consent.
Beyond Australia, she has fought for justice in news media, documentaries, or delivered speeches all over the world: from the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, France, Spain, and Ireland, to name a few.
Her work has reached the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, and the Boston Globe, among countless others.
She has served as an advisor for the Pathways to Digital Justice project with the World Economic Forum. Served as a panellist at the United Nations CSW NGO, and was quoted by the FBI and Homeland Security in an official report on deepfakes after being invited to speak with them on the matter.


RESEARCH:
(1) IMMERSIVE TECH & THE METAVERSE; and
(2) THE REGULATION OF DEEPFAKE ABUSE.

Noelle Martin completed her Master of Laws dissertation on the vast global implications of the metaverse. She was supervised by Associate Professor Julia Powles at the University of Western Australia.
Her joint work and research on the metaverse have been featured in the Financial Times (US), MIT Tech Review, the UK’s Times Radio, and Sky News Australia, among others.
She has also published a research article on the regulation of deepfake abuse (and online harms more broadly) in Australia, with a case study on Australia's eSafety Commissioner.
Her open access article has been published in the Griffith Law Review, a leading law journal. See: 'Online safety regulation of deepfake abuse: a case study on Australia's eSafety Commissioner'.