RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am interested in how the legal and technical infrastructures behind information systems limit or empower the ability to organize against the powerful and provide collective care. My visual art extends this inquiry through humor and abstraction.
EMPLOYMENT
2022–Present, Senior Strategist, Privacy & Data Governance, ACLU
2020–Present, Freelance Researcher, Various (Access Info Europe, Center for Democracy and Technology, NYU's The Gov Lab, Immigrant Defense Project, Surveillance Resistance Lab)
2020–2021, Technology & Public Purpose Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
2017–2020, Digital Services Expert, OFCIO, OMB, White House
2016–2017, Senior Advisor, GovEx, Johns Hopkins University
2015–2016, Policy Analyst, OFCIO, OMB, White House
2014–2015, IT Specialist, Data.gov, General Services Administration
2013–2014, Policy Analyst, Sunlight Foundation
EDUCATION & LICENSES
2022, Bar Admission, State of New York
2009, J.D., Environmental Law, Western New England University Law School
2004, B.A., Media Studies & Film, University of Massachusetts
RESEARCH & CALLS TO ACTION
2025, Navigating Your State’s Digital ID System & Demands for Protecting Human Dignity and Choice from Digital Identification Systems, Surveillance Resistance Lab
2025, How Congress Can Delete DOGE, Tech Policy Press
2022, Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust, McGill University
2021, What Should You Consider When Investing In “Smart City” Technology?, Harvard Kennedy School
2021, Your Guide to Watching the Watchers, Harvard Kennedy School
2021, Everything Local Surveillance Laws Are Missing In One Post, Harvard Kennedy School
2021, Whose Streets? Our Streets! (Tech Edition): 2020-21 “Smart City” Cautionary Trends: 10 Calls to Action to Protect and Promote Democracy, Harvard Kennedy School
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT & WORKSHOPS
2022, Python for Public Policy, NYU
2021, Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age, Harvard Kennedy School
2017, Digital Security Training (Organizer & Host), Georgetown Law
2017, Leadership Development Training, Equal Justice Works
2013, API Workshop, Tech Lady Hackathon
TEACHING, LECTURES, & SYMPOSIUMS
2025, DOGE and Data Privacy, UIC Law
2022, Location Data in Context, National Academies
2022, AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium, McGill University
2021, Technology and Public Purpose Series, Harvard Kennedy School
2021, Protecting and Promoting Democracy with Technology, Harvard Kennedy School
2020, Annual Meeting, The Association of American Law Schools
2019, Environmental Data Management Workshop (Keynote), NOAA
2019, Balancing Data Use with Data Privacy Seminar, Georgetown Law
2018, Open Government Data, George Washington Law
2017, Performance Analytics - Tools & Techniques, Johns Hopkins University
2015, From Revolution to Evolution: Digital Tools in Law Practice, Georgetown Law
2016, CodeX FutureLaw, Stanford
2014, Iron Tech Lawyer, Georgetown
PANELS & PODCASTS
2025, DOGE and the United States of AI, Tech Policy Press podcast
2025, Disrupted Alliance, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
2025, How Digital ID Threatens Democracy, Safety, and Our Humanity, RightsCon
2022, An Overview of Surveillance Technology Markets, RightsCon
2021, New Screen Deal, Cornell Tech
2021, Surveillance in the Urban Space, RightsCon
2021, threesixtyCITY, New Cities podcast
2021, Fellow Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School podcast
2020, A survey of government (open) data regulations, CSVConf
2019, An inside look at government data making (Reprise), NICAR
2018, An inside look at government data making, NICAR
2017, Beyond FOIA, SRCCON
2017, Fighting Crime with Data in the US and Abroad, SXSW
2016, Discovering Open Data Standards, wc3 SDSVoc
2016, Behind the curtain, NICAR
2015, Let's Work Together: How Government Data Can Be Bettered, Visualized
2015, Political Data, Visualized
2015, Your Laws, Your Data: Making Government More Open, SXSW
2014, Listen to testimony in favor of state Open Data Policy, Technical.ly Baltimore
ART TRAINING, RESIDENCIES, & EXHIBITIONS
2024, Completely Artistic Paintings to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, MidMountain Collective Group Show
2024, To the Streets!, School of Poetic Computation
2023, Fellow In Residence, MidMountain Arts Collective
2023, Oil Painting, Washington Studio School
SERVICE & ORGANIZING
2024–Present, Steward/UET, ACLU Staff United
2023–Present, Pro Bono Attorney, Pal Legal
2023–Present, Board Member, MuckRock
2015–Present, Organizer, Civic Tech Book Club
2013–2020, Organizer, DC Legal Hackers
AWARDS & HONORS
2019, Fed 100, FCW
2014, 10 Women to Watch in Legal Tech, American Bar Association
2014, Fastcase 50, Fastcase
SELECTED PRESS
2025, What’s next for our privacy?, MIT Tech Review
2024, AI is beyond government control, StateScoop
2024, After giving wrong answers, NYC chatbot to stay online for testing, StateScoop
2023, Researchers worry about data access in a Threads-ruled world, Fast Company
2023, Twitter’s Community Notes is the fiercest 2024 primary battleground, Daily Dot
2023, A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition—and Landed in Big Trouble, Wired
2023, Why federal LGBTQI+ data collection should concern state, local officials, StateScoop
2021, Is New Orleans Trading Internet Access for Corporate Surveillance?, The New Republic
2020, Unemployment Checks Are Being Held Up by a Coding Language Almost Nobody Knows, The Verge
2018, How Legal Hackers Are Changing The Legal Industry, Forbes
2017, Hackers Aren't the Only Ones Defending Your Right to Federal Data, Wired
2017, Sunlight's Williams to GSA, FCW
2014, Searchable Video May Bolster Government Transparency in California, techwire
2014 Ordinance requires Pittsburgh government to publish data online, TribLIVE
2013, Garcetti orders release of city data, but scope uncertain, Los Angeles Times