Manisha graduated from the Foster School of Business studying Finance and minoring in Law, Societies and Justice. She is interested in social impact and public sector consulting which allows her to learn about the intersection of higher education, economic development, and technical business background to give back to underprivileged groups. She researched the Lab’s background […]

Zoe earned a J.D. from the UW School of Law. She has a background in computer science and is interested in the social implications of human-robot interaction and how law enforcement uses technology.

Angelina McMillan-Major is a PhD student in the Linguistics Department. Angie’s research focuses on computational methodologies for low-resource language documentation and revitalization and the interaction between language, technology, and society.

Salt is a PhD student in the Dept. of Communication at UW. He works with the Community Data Science Collective studying online peer production projects such as Linux, Scratch, and Wikipedia. Salt has a background in free/libre/open source software, information security, and community organizing.

Elias is a PhD student at the UW Information School. Elias’ research explores rites of passage and liminality within the contexts of technology and design. In particular, Elias is interested in the intersection of liminal spaces and things, and the human interactions that are found there. Elias has a background in art and design, writing, […]

María P. Angel is a Ph.D. student in Law. She is interested in the intellectual history of privacy law scholarship, and believes that algorithms are pushing twenty-first century American law scholars to inadvertently propose the contours of a post-algorithmic privacy. She also works at the intersection of tech policy and Science, Technology, and Social Studies […]

Pardis was a postdoctoral scholar at University of Washington, who worked with Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner. She received a B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). As part of her doctoral research, she developed a usable privacy and […]

Lucy earned a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Her research focuses on the security and privacy-related needs and practices of understudied or underserved populations, e.g. resettled refugees.

Savannah was a J.D. candidate at the UW School of Law. Her research examines agricultural technologies and food resiliency. She is interested in the intersection of intellectual property and technology law, and has a background in analytics and digital media marketing.

Julia (JJ) Citron (summa cum laude, Colgate University 2020), was a Research Assistant at the Tech Policy Lab with a focus on the intersection of race, law and technology. She serves on the cabinet of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro, NY.