Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Facebook. Responsible Innovation Manager. Menlo Park, CA (April 2020-Present). Supervisors: Pablo Quintanilla, Zvika Krieger. Drive workshop strategy and execution to help cross-functional product teams develop ethical foresight and build responsibility into Facebook products and services from the outset.
  • Intel Labs. Senior Research Scientist. Santa Clara, CA (2016-2020).Supervisors: Lama Nachman, John Sherry.
    • Responsible AI Strategy. Co-developed and executed Intel’s Responsible AI program. Worked with a cross-functional task force to write human-rights-based responsible AI principles, create ethics checkpoints for technological processes, and design internal responsible AI tools and training processes.
    • Municipal Data Governance Policy. Conducted stakeholder outreach (civil society, academic researchers, and city privacy and equity staff) to co-develop principles and data-sharing tools for responsible data governance.
    • Privacy Research and Practice. Principle Investigator for social science privacy research projects within Intel Labs, focusing on issues of bias, inequity, and inclusion arising from emerging technologies. Led ethnographic interviews and other qualitative fieldwork with persons historically underserved by technology in sites including Pittsburgh, East Oakland, San Jose, New York, and rural Sweden. Advised internal design, policy, and engineering teams on contextually appropriate interventions based on the meaning and use of technology in those communities.
  • City of Oakland. Vice Chair, Privacy Advisory Taskforce. Oakland, CA (2018- 2020). Supervisor: Brian Hofer. Mayoral Appointee to Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission (PAC) (volunteer). Evaluated social costs of surveillance technology on historically disempowered members of the Oakland community, including people of color, undocumented workers, and religious minorities. Worked with privacy and equity staff in San Jose, Santa Clara County, Portland, and Seattle to craft social impacts and privacy use policies honoring civil rights and civil liberties of all community members.
  • New York University. Postdoctoral Privacy Research Fellow. Information Law Institute and Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication. New York, NY (2012-2014). Supervisor: Helen Nissenbaum. Conducted qualitative and policy research on user attitudes towards privacy risks in mobile health tracking data. Developed an undergraduate course posing philosophical, social, and legal inquiries into the impact of digital communications in order to prepare students to recognize, contextualize, and analyze ethical challenges created by new information technologies.
  • Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law. Policy Intern. Berkeley, CA (2010-2012). Supervisors: Jennifer Urban, Jason Schultz. Drafted whitepapers, model legislation, and amicus briefs for public interest technology clients, including measures for protecting consumer privacy from smart grid and biometric technologies.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation. Privacy and Civil Liberties Intern. San Francisco, CA (2010). Supervisors: Cindy Cohn, Lee Tien. Drafted whitepaper on the judicial oversight of the state secrets privilege under national security doctrine, particularly as regarding U.S. government domestic wiretapping of Muslim Americans.
  • Center for Democracy & Technology. Human Rights Extern. San Francisco, CA (2010). Supervisor: Jim X. Dempsey. Researched Internet freedom of expression under international human rights treaties, focusing on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and prohibitions on freedom of expression in Latin American countries.
  • University of Washington. Ph.D. Researcher. Seattle, WA (2000-2007). Supervisor: David P. Corina. Working closely with members of the American Deaf population, assessed neural underpinnings of signed languages and visual attention across sensory modalities. Created and taught a graduate seminar on ethical issues arising from technologies designed and deployed without consultation with impacted vulnerable populations.

EDUCATION

  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law: J.D. with Law & Technology Certification
  • University of Washington: Ph.D. Cognitive Science with Neuroscience Specialization             
  • University of Texas: M.A. Linguistics                                                                               
  • Purdue University: B.S. Neurobiology & Physiology