Introducing Our Fall 2021 Interns!

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Friend, We’re thrilled to introduce you to S.T.O.P.’s 2021 fall interns! With so much anti-surveillance work to be done, we’ve expanded to include our first ever Research Intern team to help us stay on top of the latest “innovations” in surveillance technology. Our incredible cohort were selected from hundreds of applicants from all around the world. Together, we know we’ll do amazing work in the fight to abolish mass surveillance.   Our Fall 2021 Intern Class Aidan McKay Research Intern Aidan is a senior at Swarthmore College studying Sociology and Anthropology. He is interested in the overlap between private and state surveillance, value-form theory, and modernist literature. Prior to joining S.T.O.P.'s research team, he researched the intersection of surveillance and EdTech and organized for labor justice at his old institution, UC San Diego. Amber Rahman Advocacy Intern Dedicated to transnational justice for all, Amber is committed to organizing towards liberation alongside marginalized, surveilled, and occupied communities within the U.S. and abroad. She is a prospective African American Studies major at Princeton University with a minor in Technology and Society who seeks to study through an abolitionist framework the ways in which technology is being used to further exacerbate and uniquely evolve systems of injustice related to incarceration, policing, and imperialism.  Arjun Ravi Research Intern Arjun is a senior at Georgetown University studying Economics and Mathematics. He had hands-on experience understanding police surveillance working at the Metropolitan Police Department and has researched how algorithmic risk assessments in the criminal justice system affect sentences and judges' preferences. At school, he is a leader of the Georgetown Mock Trial Team and the Chair of the Steering Committee for Georgetown’s Carroll Round Conference in International Economics. Brianna Webb Communications Intern Brianna Webb is a third year student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is studying Communication and Sociology with a focus in Sex, Gender, and Race studies. She is interested in racial equity, data rights, and international relations. Fatima Ladha Civil Rights Intern Fatima Zehra Ladha (she/her) is a second year law student at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is interested in privacy, consumer protection, and making technology more equitable for communities of color and immigrants. Before law school, Fatima worked at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, where she was a Community Advocate in the National Security and Civil Rights program. Fatima grew up in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and studied at Stanford University, where she majored in English and African & African American Studies. Kianna Ortiz Advocacy Intern Kianna Ortiz is a sophomore at New York University studying Anthropology, Sociology, and Social and Cultural Analysis. She is also an alum of the Center for Court Innovation’s Youth Justice Board, where she researched issues of police and surveillance and co-authored the Board’s All Eyes on Us report. She is interested in how surveillance affects local communities of color and how education and advocacy can help liberate communities from the criminal justice system. It's been amazing to see how much S.T.O.P. has grown in such a short amount of time, but we know the fight against mass surveillance is an uphill battle. Please donate to S.T.O.P. today as we rise to meet this unprecedented challenge. With your support, we can’t wait to see how much we’ll accomplish this fall.  With thanks, Albert Fox Cahn Executive Director Share Tweet Forward Copyright © *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*, All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|* *|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* Our mailing address is: *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|* *|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.