Nicki Petrossi
Founder & Host, Scrolling 2 Death · Online child-safety advocate
Nicki Petrossi is a mom of three and a former social media executive turned social media reform advocate. In late 2023 she launched Scrolling 2 Death, a podcast for parents worried about social media, and has since produced more than 300 episodes with U.S. senators and lawmakers, tech whistleblowers, doctors, attorneys, teachers, and the parents and youth living these harms firsthand.
The Scrolling 2 Death community now reaches over a million parents every week. Nicki travels the country speaking at schools, conferences, and summits on online safety, and appears regularly on news segments including America's Newsroom on Fox, NBC, and Merit Street's Morning show with Dr. Phil.
In 2025 she co-founded the Tech-Safe Learning Coalition, a resource for parents concerned about school-issued technology; founded the S2D Foundation to fund that work; and launched The Heat is On, an investigative podcast and parent movement to hold Big Tech accountable for harms to children. She serves on the boards of the Alexander Neville Foundation and the Sustainable Media Center.
We're fighting against neuroscientists and technologists who have come together to build the most addictive algorithms that are yet to exist, and every single day they get smarter.
If your platform is addictive or predatory in any way, you do not get access to children.
It's never too late to make any kind of changes around the screen time or the access you've given your child.
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