Molly Sauter is currently currently a Vanier Scholar and Ph.D. student at McGill University. Her research broadly focuses on hacker culture, digital activism, internet law and regulation, and depictions of technology in the media Sauter is also a research affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and at the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. She is the author of The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, published by Bloomsbury, which is an analysis of the history and development of activist distributed denial of service actions. Sauter is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and holds an M.Sc in Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.