Avatara Smith-Carrington (they/them) is the current Tyron Garner Memorial Law Fellow at Lambda Legal, and a Researcher on the Institute’s project on algorithmic fairness & disability rights.

Prior to joining Lambda Legal as a Fellow, Avatara was the 2018-2019 Linda Kennedy Fellow in Advocacy at the Homeless Persons Representation Project, interned with Whitman-Walker Health, and was an Access to Justice Tech Fellow at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service. Prior to entering law school, Avatara worked as a digital campaigner at Planned Parenthood Action Fund in Washington, D.C.

Avatara serves as a Board Member on the Advisory Board of the Kairos Fellowship, which is designed to build the next generation of leaders in the field of civic tech, digital campaigning, and online organizing. In their spare time, Avatara commits themself to work that interrogates the use of technology to reinforce exercises of power in both virtual and physical spaces.

Avatara received their B.A. from Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey and their J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. They are licensed to practice in the state of Maryland.