Kaliya Young
- Co-founder of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW)
- Co-author of A Comprehensive Guide to Self-Sovereign Identity
- Long-time advocate known as Identity Woman
Bio
Kaliya Young, known widely as Identity Woman, is a central figure in decentralized identity. She co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), the unconference where much of the field's foundational work is debated, and co-authored a leading guide to self-sovereign identity. Her work spans verifiable credentials, wallets, and the governance frameworks around them.
Profile built from public IIW and personal-site records.
Where their work shows up
Young's advocacy shaped the self-sovereign identity framing and the issuer, holder, verifier model now being deployed at population scale through the EUDI Wallet. See verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.
Podcasts
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- PodcastA Digital Identity Digest
Short weekly episodes from standards veteran Heather Flanagan that "translate geek to human" on identity standards, wallets, and the web platform.
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- PodcastUbisecure
Ubisecure's interview show with identity leaders, 102 episodes on digital identity, organisation identity, and governance. No new episode since January 2024.
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