A Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, Eirliani holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard University. She is concurrently a Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Technology and Democracy. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of "Harvard Students in AI" program hosted by the Berkman Klein Center. She is a former New America Open Technology Institute Fellow and P.E.O. International Peace scholar. Since its inception in 2016, she was a founding member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council as an expert on child online safety. In December 2022, Eirliani made global headlines following her resignation from the council, speaking out against the meteoric rise in hate speech after Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. In response, Musk dissolved the council four days later. Her work has been profiled by inter alia the BBC, CBC, NPR, Slate, Harvard Public Health, the Sunday Times, and Business Insider.