Class of 2027

Shelby is a J.D. candidate and Allen and Erika Lo Endowed Tech Scholar interested in working at the intersection of technology, civil rights, and privacy. She is the President of the Georgetown Plaintiffs’ Law Association and a member of OutLaw.

Before law school, Shelby worked as a software engineer and people manager at The MITRE Corporation. Her prior projects include developing a privacy threat model called MITRE PANOPTIC, creating an educational framework for artificial intelligence with the National Science Foundation, and authoring literature on advancing gender equity in undergraduate computer science education. She had the pleasure of hiring, mentoring, and managing her department’s interns. Before coming to MITRE, Shelby worked as a program manager at Microsoft, where she managed the development of software solution patterns to accelerate customer adoption of Azure Stack Edge and Hub technologies.

Shelby is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she designed an interdisciplinary degree in Computer Science, Media Studies, and Public Policy and earned a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Outside of school, Shelby enjoys writing poetry, cheering on the Washington Spirit, and convincing her friends and family to move to DC.