Urooba Abid - Junior Board Member

Urooba Abid is a recent graduate with a passion for utilizing impact litigation, integrated advocacy, and justice-oriented storytelling to achieve social change. As a Muslim-American, she is particularly interested in scrutinizing how surveillance infrastructure targets minority communities. Urooba is currently working as a paralegal with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, supporting ongoing Fourth Amendment litigation at the federal and state level. Prior to joining the ACLU, Urooba interned with the Public Interest Law Center, the Federal Trade Commission, and Lyft’s public policy team, where she fostered her interest in the intersections of technology regulation, digital privacy, and government transparency.

Urooba received her B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, where she developed her scholarship and advocacy as a Civic Scholar.