Ciarra Lee - Junior Board Member

Ciarra Lee is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School. Ciarra graduated from Cornell University in 2021 with a degree in Information Science and Sociology. While at Cornell, she researched at the Digital Due Process Clinic in the department of Science and Technology Studies, where she analyzed abortion surveillance via search engine optimization, geofencing, and ad strategies of crisis pregnancy centers (“anti-abortion clinics”) prior to the overturn of Roe. She also worked at the Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation, exploring how technology can be used to promote diversity and inclusion, fair assessment, and evidence-based teaching in higher education. Prior to attending law school, Ciarra worked in a client-facing technical product role at BlackRock, where she focused on product development, client adoption and support, and internal knowledge management strategy for the firm's investment compliance product. She is passionate about cyberlaw, speech, disinformation, surveillance, data privacy, algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property. Ciarra aims to focus on the intersection of technology and racial, gender, socioeconomic, and disability justice in her future legal career.