Nana-Kwabena Abrefah is an Advisory Board Member for Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. He works as Privacy Associate at the law firm Venable, LLP in its Washington, DC office. Nana is a 2021 graduate of the Law Center, and as a student, he engaged with a range of the school’s privacy and tech policy offerings. He worked on privacy and immigration matters as a Student Advocate in the Federal Legislation Clinic, was a Tech Law Scholar, worked at the Institute for Technology Law & Policy, and served as a research assistant for Tanina Rostain. As part of his coursework, he researched how privacy and surveillance interact with and affect marginalized communities.
Currently, he assists clients in complying with and advocating with respect to various U.S. privacy laws at the state and federal levels. Outside of work, he also serves as a Board Member for the ACLU of DC.
Nana earned a B.A. at Columbia University in Political-Science Economics with a Concentration in Math. You can email Nana at naabrefah@venable.com.

Joe Bateman is a Vice President on the Impact Finance team at JPMorganChase where he provides concessionary loans to community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to finance their affordable housing and small business lending activities.
Previously, Joe worked as Director, Impact Investing at Social Finance, an impact investment and advisory firm, where he developed and managed impact-focused investment funds focused on enabling new career paths for low-income workers. Joe also worked on the US investments team at Luminate, a global philanthropic investor. In this role, Joe expanded Luminate’s portfolio of for-profit and nonprofit organizations working at the intersection of civic empowerment, racial justice, and digital rights, providing significant post-investment organizational support to the portfolio. Before working at Luminate, Joe led teams at Summit Consulting to conduct due diligence and portfolio monitoring for more than $1 billion in loans to CDFIs from the US Department of the Treasury, mid-sized US banks, and philanthropies.
Joe began his career working in human rights advocacy at the Washington Office on Latin America, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization focused on changing US foreign policy toward Latin America. He holds a Master of International Business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and bachelor’s degrees in International Studies and Spanish from the University of Mississippi.
Joe Bateman also serves on the board of MediaJustice, a social and racial justice organization that provides strategic and narrative leadership to advance a liberatory vision for media and technology.

Dan Bateyko is a multidisciplinary researcher at Cornell University’s Department of Information Science and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's AI, Law, and Society Lab. He studies how lawyers make sense of artificial intelligence, and how their understanding shapes law and policy. He has worked on projects at the Institute for Law & AI, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and the Stanford Internet Observatory. As a former Research Coordinator for the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, Dan co-authored American Dragnet, detailing the scope of Immigration and Customs Enforcement surveillance and garnering significant media attention, with coverage in NPR, USA Today, LA Times, and other news outlets.
His work has been supported by a Google Public Policy Fellowship, an Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellowship, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. He holds a Masters of Law and Technology from Georgetown University Law Center, where he received the IAPP Westin Scholar Book Award for excellence in privacy law.

Heidi Boghosian is a New York City-based privacy advocate, author, and attorney who has led several civil liberties and social justice organizations. These include the National Lawyers Guild and currently the A.J. Muste Foundation for Peace and Justice. For 20 years, Heidi has co-hosted the civil liberties radio show and podcast Law and Disorder. She has written amicus briefs in cases addressing government overreach or misconduct, including those involving the Cuban Five, the SHAC 7, former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Ross Ulbricht, creator of The Silk Road website. Her books on surveillance, policing, and technology include Spying on Democracy (2013); “I Have Nothing to Hide” and 20 Other Myths About Privacy and Surveillance (2021), and Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy (forthcoming June 2025 Beacon Press.)

Ignacio Cofone is Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, working jointly at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a governing body fellow of Reuben College. He is also an affiliated fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the Quebec AI Institute. Before joining Oxford, he was the Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University.
Ignacio’s research examines how the law can and should adapt to social and economic changes driven by data and AI. His recent book, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy (CUP 2023), argues that AI requires restructuring privacy and data protection law based on the duties that we owe one another as members of society—typically captured by extracontractual obligations—because basing these bodies of law on individual control has become ineffective. His current research focuses on how to prevent and redress nonmaterial AI harms and on regulatory design that fosters human-centred AI.
Ignacio obtained doctorates from Yale Law School (JSD) and from Hamburg University and Erasmus University Rotterdam (joint PhD, rerum politicarum), as well as common law and civil law degrees. He has been appointed for visiting positions at NYU School of Law, University of St Gallen, Bar-Ilan University, Tilburg University, and Torcuato Di Tella University and advises governments, courts, and other organizations on how to adjust law and regulation in view of AI—such as by working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on an overhaul of private sector Canadian privacy law. He actively welcomes candidates for doctoral and postdoctoral supervision at the Faculty of Law, particularly but not only from scholars with interdisciplinary or comparative law backgrounds.
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For details on his publications, please see SSRN or Google Scholar. He posts about AI and data on Twitter [X] and LinkedIn.

Josie Duffy Rice is a journalist, writer, law school graduate, and podcast host whose work is primarily focused on prosecutors, prisons, and other criminal justice issues.
She is the host of the podcast UnReformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, released in January 2023, which she also co-wrote. In addition, she co-hosts What a Day, Crooked Media’s daily news podcast, two days a week. She is also the creator and co-host of the podcast Justice in America. Until May 2021, she was President of The Appeal, a news publication that publishes original journalism about the criminal justice system.
Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Slate, among others. She was a writer on the FX show The Premise. Josie was also a consulting producer for Campside Media’s #1 podcast Suspect.
Josie has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Late Night with Seth Meyers, All In with Chris Hayes, and others. She’s also been a guest on podcasts such as You’re Wrong About, 5-4, Call Your Girlfriend, The Dig, 92Y, Why Is This Happening?, Citations Needed, and many more. She’s also been a regular guest host of Political Gabfest.
Josie’s a graduate of Harvard Law School and received her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. She is currently a Type Media Fellow, and was previously a 2020 New America Fellow and a Civic Media Fellow at University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. She is writing a book and lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.

Jonathan Frankle is Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, where he leads the AI research team toward the goal of bringing the latest advances in large language models, computer vision, and reinforcement learning to Databricks’ 12,000 enterprise customers. He arrived via Databricks’ $1.3B acquisition of MosaicML, which he co-founded and led as Chief Scientist. In addition to his technical work, he is actively involved in AI policymaking. In that capacity, he served as the inaugural staff technologist at the Center on Privacy & Technology in 2015-16. He earned his PhD at MIT, where he empirically studied deep learning with Prof. Michael Carbin, specifically the properties of sparse networks that allow them to train effectively (his "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" - ICLR 2019 Best Paper, MIT Thesis Award). He earned his BSE and MSE in computer science at Princeton. He has previously spent time at Google Brain and Facebook AI Research.

Chris Gilliard is the co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and the author of the forthcoming book from MIT Press, Luxury Surveillance.

Sam Hinds translates complex insights to global audiences and decision-makers. Based in New York City, she is active as a writer, speaker, performer, and grassroots organizer in the bodily autonomy movement. She was recently Director of Communications for Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Before that, as Director of Creative Strategy at Data & Society, Sam launched foundational scholarly work on disinformation and directed immersive off-the-record expert spaces to tackle harms from algorithmic bias, surveillance, and networked hate. Before working in tech, Sam supported political exhibitions and installations at Creative Time, covered intellectual history as Editor-at-Large of The New Inquiry, and ran post-genocide accountability and documentation projects at the International Center for Transitional Justice. Sam currently serves as a Senior Advisor for the Critical Internet Studies Institute.

Lilly Irani is an Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego where she co-directs the Just Transitions Initiative and serves as Faculty Director of the Labor Center. She is author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Redacted (with Jesse Marx) (Taller California, 2021). Chasing Innovation has been awarded the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for feminist anthropological research on work, science, or technology, including biomedicine.
She is a co-founder of the now worker-led data worker advocacy organization Turkopticon. She also serves on the steering committee of the San Diego Transparent and Responsible Use of Technology (TRUST) Coalition as part of Tech Workers Coalition.

Kristina Irion is Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. At Amsterdam Law School, she is the Director of the Academic Excellence Track (AcET), the Head of Studies for the interdisciplinary Bachelor's programme Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) and a lecturer in the new Advanced Master in Technology Governance. Until 2017, she had been Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University then in Budapest. Dr. Irion obtained her doctorate from Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, and holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Dr. Irion’s research focuses on European data law, the governance of transnational digital technologies and sustainable computing policies. A baseline of her research is the interpretation and analysis of the transformational processes that reconfigure the legal properties of digital data in line with societal needs. Here she focuses on the EU legal framework on personal data and data governance. Besides, she focuses on the governance of transnational digital technologies and global data value chains from the perspective of European law and international economic law. More recently, her research has embarked on the analysis of EU law and policy of data centres’ sustainability.
Dr Irion has published widely on the GDPR and international data flows, digital and data sovereignty, and source code secrecy in digital trade law (see for a list of publications). In terms of societal relevance, much of the commissioned research she has led or contributed to did generate a significant impact on public policy. She frequently provides expertise to the European Commission and the Parliament, the Council of Europe, the OECD, national governments as well as civil society organizations. Next to the advisory board of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, she is a member of the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (epic.org) and the scientific committee of CPDP.ai conferences.

Elizabeth Joh is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. She researches and writes primarily in the areas of policing, surveillance, and technology. Her work in this area focuses on the impacts of new technologies on democratic policing and its effects on privacy and civil liberties. She has written in nationally prominent law journals as well as in publications including the New York Times, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times. Professor Joh is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Faculty Advisory Board member of the University of California CITRIS Policy Lab, an Affiliate Scholar with Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, and served on the University of California Presidential Working Group on Artificial Intelligence. Professor Joh received her J.D. and Ph.D. in Law and Society from New York University.

O’Donavan Johnson is the Director of Development & External Affairs at CDT, leading fundraising, partnership engagement, and marketing for the organization. He has over 15 years of experience in nonprofit management and higher ed, with additional background in communications, policy, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Prior to joining CDT, O’Donavan directed the Mid-Atlantic region for Princeton University’s Office of Advancement. He previously led a $70 million capital campaign at the largest Jesuit high school in the U.S. Before that, O’Donavan lobbied Illinois state lawmakers as Executive Director of a K-12 education policy organization, taught at the undergraduate level, and worked as a graphic designer.
O’Donavan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) and a Master of Arts in Philosophy from DePaul University (Chicago, IL). Born and raised in Chicago, he has called Washington, D.C. home since 2016.

Robin Mansell (PhD 1984, Simon Fraser University Canada) is Professor Emerita, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science and Scientific Director, International Observatory for Information and Democracy, Paris. She is Fellow of the British Academy, UK Academy of Social Sciences, Oxford Global Society and CITI (Columbia Institute for Tele-Information). Past-President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany and LIRNEAsia, Sri Lanka. Formerly Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy at SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit) University of Sussex (1988-2000) and Administrator at the OECD (1986-87), she holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa University of Fribourg and was recipient of the ICA C. Edwin Baker and IAMCR Distinguished Contribution award. Her research focuses on media and communications regulation and policy, data and digital platform governance, privacy and surveillance, the socio-technical features of data systems, and the political economy of innovation in digital technologies. She is author of more than 120 papers and author/co-editor of 23 books, including Handbook of Media and Communication Governance (2024 Edward Elgar), Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communications Research: One Forum, Many Voices (Palgrave 2023), Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics (2020, Edward Elgar) and Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation and Governance (2012 Oxford University Press).

Lori McGlinchey is the director of the Ford Foundation’s Technology and Society program. She leads Ford’s efforts to support organizations working globally to ensure that the internet and digital technologies are designed and governed in ways that advance social and economic justice, particularly for those experiencing persistent discrimination. She previously served as a senior program officer at Ford, where she led key grantmaking efforts to expand broadband equity and challenge harmful corporate and government surveillance, extractive data practices, and discriminatory predictive technologies. She also developed funding strategies to advance free expression and address information disorder and disinformation. Previously, Lori was senior program officer for the U.S. Democracy Fund of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), responsible for developing and leading funding strategies on U.S. media and internet policy, government accountability, journalism, and documentary film. She also served as assistant director of OSF’s U.S. programs and developed a special initiative to address the politicization of science-based U.S. policymaking and its impact on free expression, reproductive justice, climate policy, and whistleblower protections. She also developed a program to strengthen communications, governance, fundraising, leadership, and technology capacity for OSF grantees.

Ulises A. Mejias is professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, recipient of the 2023 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and a Fulbright Specialist from 2021 to 2025. His latest book, co-authored with Nick Couldry, is "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (Penguin Random House). Dr. Mejias is co-founder of Tierra Común, a network of activists, educators and scholars working towards the decolonization of data (tierracomun.net), and he also serves on the board of Humanities New York, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. Petra has crossed many borders and has been working on migration issues since 2008. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is the author of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, published in 2024 by The New Press. The book chronicles 6 years of work across the world’s borders and sharing the stories of people-on-the-move who find themselves at the sharpest edges of innovation, at great expense of their rights and lives. The Walls Have Eyes was named a finalist in Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards for nonfiction. Molnar’s work often appears in outlets like Al Jazeera, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and many others and she is a frequent advisor to various governments and the United Nations. Molnar also co-runs the Migration and Technology Monitor, a collective of journalists, artists, and researchers working from a participatory ethos to interrogate technological experiments at borders, incubating community projects directed by people-on-the-move who are the true experts border surveillance on the ground.

Jules has served for 15 years as CEO of the Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies.
Jules has led the development of numerous codes of conduct and best practices, assisted in the drafting of data protection legislation and presented expert testimony with agencies and legislatures around the world. He is an IAPP Westin Emeritus Fellow and the 2023 recipient of the IAPP Leadership Award.
Jules is an adjunct faculty member for the AI Law & Policy Seminar at William & Mary University Law School. He is also a lecturer in the Privacy Protection Officer course at the Magid Institute, the Faculty of Law and the Federman Center for Cyber Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jules is co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy, published by Cambridge University Press (2018). More of his writing and research can be found at www.fpf.org and on Google Scholar and SSRN.
Jules has worked on consumer protection issues for 30 years, having served as Chief Privacy Officer at AOL and at DoubleClick, as Consumer Affairs Commissioner for New York City, as an elected New York State Legislator, and as a congressional staffer for then-congressman Charles Schumer.
Jules serves on the Advisory Boards of Open DP | Harvard University Privacy Tools Project, the California Privacy Lab (University of California), and on the George Washington University Law School Privacy and Security Advisory Council. From 2011-2012, Jules served on the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. He served on the founding board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and on the boards of a number of privacy and consumer protection organizations including TRUSTe, the Network Advertising Initiative, and the Center for Copyright Information.

Rashida Richardson is a Distinguished Scholar of Technology and Policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a Senior AI Policy Expert in the Responsible AI Practice Group of the Institute of Experiential AI at Northeastern University, and a Senior Counsel, Artificial Intelligence at Mastercard. Rashida is a nationally recognized expert in the civil rights and social implications of artificial intelligence and legal practitioner of emerging technology policy issues. She has previously served as an Attorney Advisor to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission and as a Senior Policy Advisor for Data and Democracy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden Administration. Rashida has worked on a range of civil rights and technology policy issues at the German Marshall Fund, Rutgers Law School, AI Now Institute, the American Civil Liberties Union of New York (NYCLU), and the Center for HIV Law and Policy. Her work has been featured in the Emmy-Award Winning Documentary, The Social Dilemma, and in major publications like the New York Times, Wired, MIT Technology Review, and NPR (national and local member stations). She received her BA with honors in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and her JD from Northeastern University School of Law.

Hinako Sugiyama is an international lawyer, currently serving as a Digital Rights Fellow and Senior Counsel at the International Justice Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. With a focus on advanced technologies, she researches how state and corporate decisions impact individuals, including those with lived experiences, and takes actions with them to achieve the future they aspire to. She specializes in international human rights law, participatory action research, and corporate compliance. With the support of Ford Foundation’s Spyware Accountability Initiative grants, Hinako leads coalition-building to amplify investigative journalism and civil society actions against digital surveillance in Africa. She also heads a project funded by the Japan Law Association, investigating the use of surveillance technologies and automated decision-making tools by Japanese law enforcement agencies. Before joining UC Irvine, Hinako served as a Columbia Global Public Service Fellow at Access Now and worked as a legal intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She also spent six years at the Tokyo office of an international law firm, where she led cross-border investigations into multinational companies’ misconduct, including corruption and fraud in Global Majority countries, and supported remedial efforts, such as improving compliance and ethics programs. Hinako holds a B.A. from Keio University in Tokyo (with a focus on political philosophy and media communications), a J.D. from Hitotsubashi Law School in Tokyo (with a focus on business law), and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York (with a focus on corporate compliance). She is a qualified lawyer in both Japan and New York State.

Emily has worked at the nexus of technology, design, and the public interest for nearly 20 years. She has worked in government, the private sector, and academia in different roles. With a depth of experience in product and program management, service design, and user research, she has served as an advisor to senior executives transforming the products, services, and organizations they run. In each role she translates an understanding of human and organizational needs into effective and viable solutions.
Her work began in international development, designing programs for women in the Middle East, where she first observed the disconnect between digital technology and its intended users. This insight led to roles in product management, eventually culminating in government
service from 2013 to 2018, where she was a co-founder of the first agency-level team of the U.S. Digital Service, and served as Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
After serving as Managing Chair of the Georgetown Initiative on Tech & Society until June 2024, Emily is now focused on creating a primary source archive of the founding story of the U.S. Digital Service, teaching, and exploring the complex relationship between technology and public
policy.

Meredith is the Chief of Staff at Public Knowledge. She previously worked on Public Knowledge’s Communications Team, most recently as Digital Outreach Director. Meredith has an extensive background in internet policy, including previously holding positions at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Consumers Union, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the Federal Communications Commission.
Meredith earned her Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin, and her Bachelor’s degrees in Communications and Political Science from the Ohio State University in Columbus. In her free time Meredith is active in performing arts in DC.