Mary Pat is the Acting Executive Director for the Institute for Technology Law & Policy.  As Acting Executive Director, she leads the Institute’s strategic planning, fundraising, and programming.  She also serves as a liaison between the Institute and Georgetown Law alumni and oversees the Georgetown AI and Legal Profession (GAILP) initiative.  Before her term, she served as the Institute’s Academic Program Director, where she ran the Technology Law & Policy Scholars program, Master of Law & Technology program, and Technology Law & Policy LL.M. program.

Prior to joining the Institute, she was a Fellow in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where her research and writing focused on the impacts of technology on civil liberties, as well as issues pertaining to content moderation and online speech.  She previously served as Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, specializing in advising technology companies in international trade and national security matters.  She also clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Honorable Graham C. Mullen III on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.  She holds a J.D. from Duke University School of Law, summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, cum laude.