Clare Morell

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Clare Morell is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing Project. Prior to joining EPPC, Ms. Morell worked in both the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice, as well as in the private and non-profit sectors. She is also the author of The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones, published by Penguin Random House.

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Clare Morell is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Technology and Human Flourishing Project. Prior to joining EPPC, Ms. Morell worked in both the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice, as well as in the private and non-profit sectors. She is also the author of the forthcoming book, The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones, which will be published by Penguin Random House.

At the Department of Justice, Ms. Morell worked as an Advisor to Attorney General Bill Barr. As part of her work for the Attorney General, she helped oversee the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice and served as Editor of the Commission’s final report. A major focus of the Commission’s report was the challenges that Big Tech’s end-to-end encryption presents to law enforcement for gaining lawful access to crucial intelligence in criminal investigations, like domestic terrorism, as well as human and drug trafficking crimes. Ms. Morell also supported the Attorney General’s work on Section 230 reform as one of his main priorities.

Prior to her role with the Office of the Attorney General, Ms. Morell worked on judicial nominations for the White House Counsel’s office and monitored all nominations data to create high-level presentations for briefing White House leadership. From her experience, Ms. Morell brings an intimate knowledge and understanding of how policy is advanced within the Executive Branch of the federal government, particularly in the Department of Justice and the White House.

Ms. Morell has had opinion pieces published in the Wall Street JournalFox NewsBloomberg News, The New York Post, Newsweek, the Washington Examiner, National Review, First ThingsNational Affairs, American Affairs Journal, Deseret News, The Federalist, The Hill, Public Discourse, WORLD MagazineThe American Conservative, the Washington Times, and the Daily Signal.

Ms. Morell has testified before Congress. Her policy work has also been featured in The New York Times and she has done television interviews with Fox News, Blaze TV, EWTN, and Epoch TV and print interviews with The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, and WORLD Magazine among others.

Ms. Morell received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she majored in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. She graduated summa cum laude and received the Edmund A. Walsh Award for academic achievement in international law. She also is proficient in Spanish.

Ms. Morell lives with her husband and three children in Washington, D.C.

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This Summer, Take a Family Digital Detox

Clare Morell

Why a 30-Day digital detox may be the best gift you can give your kids—and how to make it work.

Articles

After Babel / June 2, 2025

Parents are discovering the secret to keeping kids off smartphones

Clare Morell

Parents can defeat the smartphone epidemic. They can’t do it alone.

Articles

Washington Post / June 2, 2025

Supreme Court’s Free Speech v. Paxton Decision Could Protect Kids Online

Clare Morell

Can a state place age restrictions on pornography websites so that children cannot access their material? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide…

Articles

Newsweek / May 27, 2025

Congress Should Extend The ‘Take It Down’ Act With These 3 Rules Protecting Kids From…

Clare Morell

There has been a lot of attention, some might even say hysteria, in the news recently around artificial intelligence (AI)….

Articles

The Federalist / May 19, 2025

An Artificial Intelligence Action Plan

Clare Morell

These comments were submitted to the White House in response to the request for comment it solicited for developing the…

 

App Stores Are Enabling Online Abuse of Kids—Time to End It

Clare Morell

For years now, children across our country have been systematically duped by predators into exposing themselves sexually online. The next step is…

Articles

The Daily Signal / May 15, 2025

Parents, Put Down the Phones

Clare Morell

Most efforts to protect kids from the harms of technology focus on delaying smartphones and social media for children and…

Articles

The Dispatch / April 22, 2025

Passing the Point of Resistance

Clare Morell

How school cellphone bans can change parents’ minds—and kids’, too.

Articles

Commonplace / March 31, 2025

The World Wide Web: Examining Harms Online

Clare Morell

On Wednesday, March 26, EPPC Fellow Clare Morell testified before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, in a…

Testimony

 

This Is No Time to Go Wobbly on Screen Use

Clare Morell

Adults have a responsibility not only to monitor but to guide children’s engagement with technology.

Articles

Wall Street Journal / February 9, 2025

TikTok Is Digital Fentanyl—U.S. Ownership Won’t Change That

Clare Morell

Last year, in a historic bipartisan effort, Congress passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The law…

Articles

First Things / January 31, 2025

America’s Families Need a Strong Federal Trade Commission Under Trump

Clare Morell

The new Donald Trump administration has already signaled in many ways that it wants to prioritize the parent-child relationship and…

Articles

The Daily Signal / January 30, 2025

Careful analysis of what today’s digital technologies mean for you and your family, what the risks are, and what it might look like to protect human flourishing in a digital age from Senior Policy Analyst Clare Morell of the Technology and Human Flourishing Program.