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  1. Mary Anne Franks

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    Mary Anne Franks is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on the intersection of civil rights, free speech, and technology. She is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law at George Washington University School of Law and the President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Her other areas of expertise include Second Amendment law, criminal law and procedure, and family law.

  2. Sahana Udupa

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    Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and founder of the Center for Digital Dignity. She has published widely on online extreme speech, disinformation, AI and content moderation, decoloniality, digital cultures, and platform governance. During her fellowship, she will explore the growing role of small social media platforms in shaping contentious speech, launching a new cross-national study, and will advance comparative research on encrypted messaging and extreme speech.

  3. Sasha Issenberg

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    Sasha Issenberg is a journalist and the author of four previous books, including The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, and, most recently, The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. He is a correspondent for Monocle, and has written for New York, the New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Politico Magazine. He teaches in the UCLA Department of Political Science.

  4. Miranda Wei

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    Miranda Wei is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington in the Security and Privacy Research Lab and member of the Tech Policy Lab. Her work investigates the security, privacy, and digital safety of everyday people through contemporary sociocultural lenses (e.g., gender, interpersonal relationships), especially on social media. Her work has been published in security and HCI venues including USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CHI, SOUPS, ACM CCS, and ACM IMC.

  5. Kendra Albert

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    Kendra Albert is a technology lawyer and a scholar of technology, gender, and power. They are a clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School, where they teach students to practice technology law. Kendra also teaches on technology and transgender rights in the Program on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Their scholarship has been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, ACM FAccT, Cell Patterns, Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, and in volumes such as Feminist Cyberlaw and the Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence.

     Kendra holds a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School and a BHA from Carnegie Mellon University. They serve as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Tor Project, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

  6. Zahra Stardust

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    Zahra Stardust is a porn studies scholar interested in the regulation of sexual cultures. Her work specializes in sexual media and sextech, focusing on the politics of sexual content moderation (including the production, distribution and regulation of explicit media), and the development of community-led, social justice sextech. Her first book Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance (Duke University Press, 2024) explores the clash between indie porn producers, governments and big tech. Her next co-authored book, Sextech: A Critical Introduction (Polity Press, 2025), examines key debates in sextech design, manufacture and governance. Zahra is a Lecturer in Digital Communication at the Queensland University of Technology and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society.

  7. Lucy Qin

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    Dr. Lucy Qin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University in computer science and at the Initiative for Technology and Society. Broadly, her background is in cryptography and usable security/privacy. Her current research uses qualitative research methods to understand various aspects of image-based sexual abuse. She also designs privacy tools/cryptographic protocols to support public institutions and nonprofits, such as Callisto, a nonprofit that supports survivors of sexual assault on college campuses.

  8. Allison McDonald

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    Allison McDonald is an Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. Her expertise is at the intersection of human-computer interaction and computer security and privacy. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, her work has investigated how technology can support or hinder the digital safety of sex workers, undocumented immigrants, and survivors of intimate partner abuse. Her work has been recognized with Best Paper Awards at both security and HCI venues, including the USENIX Security Symposium, IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, and the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

  9. Alan Rozenshtein

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    Alan Z. Rozenshtein is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He is a senior editor at Lawfare, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, and a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Nebraska College of Law. He was previously an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. From Oct. 2014 to April 2017, he served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where his work focused on operational, legal, and policy issues relating to cybersecurity and foreign intelligence. From October 2016 to April 2017, he served as a special assistant United States attorney for the District of Maryland. During this time he taught cybersecurity at Georgetown Law. While attending Harvard Law School, he was a Heyman Fellow, served as articles editor for the Harvard Law Review, and was a contributor to Lawfare.

  10. Jenna Leventoff

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    Jenna Leventoff is a Senior Policy Counsel at the ACLU, where she develops and advocates for policies related to protecting free speech and promoting robust access to communications tools. Prior to joining the ACLU, Jenna served as a Senior Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge where she advocated for universal access to affordable, reliable, broadband. Jenna also served as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Workforce Data Quality Campaign (WDQC) at the National Skills Coalition, where she led WDQC’s state policy advocacy and technical assistance efforts on state data system development and use. Jenna received her J.D, cum laude, and B.A from Case Western Reserve University.