Meet the Instructor

Ginger Armbruster

Chief Privacy Officer, City of Seattle

As Seattle’s chief privacy officer, Ginger Armbruster leads Seattle Information Technology’s Data Privacy, Accountability, and Compliance division. She's responsible for five citywide programs focused on privacy and surveillance compliance, public records, open data, compliance and policy, and responsible artificial intelligence.

Prior to this role, Armbruster worked for Microsoft on an international team of privacy specialists to resolve issues associated with multi-million-dollar marketing initiatives. She spent the first 20 years of her career working in sales and marketing for Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Johnson & Johnson, as well as several medical technology startup companies. 

Armbruster completed her undergraduate degree in political science at Barnard College, Columbia University. As a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Scholarship for Service Program (CyberCorps), she earned her master’s degree in infrastructure planning and management at the University of Washington, focusing on critical infrastructure cyber resiliency.