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We’re thrilled to introduce you to S.T.O.P.’s inaugural Junior Board! With so much work to be done, this incredible group of emerging tech, social justice, and privacy leaders will help our team stay at the cutting edge of anti-surveillance advocacy.
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Alec Harmon
Alec Harmon is a software engineer and currently a technical lead who has expertise in the payments, financial information, and ad tech space. Since graduating from McGill University in Montreal, Alec has worked on multiple social technology projects helping thousands of Americans reach out to their representatives as well as automated the finding and scheduling of Covid vaccines for tens of thousands of New York State residents. While living in Atlanta, he participated in educating students with refugee status through the International Rescue Committee. Additionally, Alec frequently participates with the Greenpoint Hunger Program to help feed the community.
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Aliya Bhatia
Aliya Bhatia is a policy and campaigns professional working at the intersection of technology, human rights, and civic participation. She currently works at Ranking Digital Rights, where she works to increase public engagement around the team's research on corporate power and tech companies' commitments to human rights. Prior to this, she worked on expanding access to the first digital decennial census in New York State, working with 150+ partners and community-based organizations. She has worked with The Brookings Institution, Civic Hall, Digital Justice Lab, Silicon Harlem, the New York Immigration Coalition, and Canada's NDP.
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Emily Lyon
Emily Lyon is a Brooklyn-based director and producer, working at the intersection of storytelling and social impact. The three core issues at the center of her work are technology privacy, intersectional feminism, and environmental justice. In 2020, she founded Future Facing Films, which creates short comedies that delve into the consequences of facial recognition. Other social impact projects include: curating Expand the Canon (a call to action for theatre to include women playwrights in the classics), working on the 2021 Hollywood Climate Summit, creating an environmental justice card game with The Civilians R&D Group, and teaching Storytelling for Impact.
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Justin Campos
Justin is a member of the Junior Board. He is an MPA candidate at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He is studying public policy with a concentration in the study of inequality, race, and poverty. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2019 with a BA in the College of Social Studies. He is excited about the work that S.T.O.P. is doing to address the ways in which mass surveillance disproportionately impacts marginalized communities.
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Melanie Strouse
Melanie is an experienced relationship builder and manager with a demonstrated history of working in both for-profit and non-profit settings. Currently on the monetization brand partnerships team at Freshly, she's previously worked in nonprofit development roles at Common Sense Media, Read Ahead, The Moth, and the New York City chapter of National Organization for Women. A published poet and photographer, Melanie has a master's degree in international affairs, specializing in media and culture from The New School, and a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University.
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Natalie Mathes
Natalie currently researches internet misinformation with Media Matters for America. She has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from The George Washington University, and a master’s degree in philosophy from the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she focused her studies around ethics, moral psychology, social epistemology, and political philosophy. Her current interests involve all things at the intersection of technology, media, democracy, and ethno-nationalism.
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Patrick K. Lin
Patrick K. Lin is an author interested in artificial intelligence, technology policy, and algorithmic bias. He has worked for public interest organizations such as the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Federal Trade Commission. While completing his law degree at Brooklyn Law School, Patrick wrote Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System.
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Santana Jackson
Santana Jackson is a first year law clerk in the cyber/data/privacy practice group at Cooley LLP in Washington, DC. Prior to working at Cooley she was a law student at NYU School of Law and participated in the Technology Law and Policy Clinic for two semesters, the second one being an advanced clinic. Santana was also previously a legal fellow at the Policing Project where she researched surveillance technology used by police and governmental entities. She is passionate about mitigating the use and harm of surveillance technology, commercial surveillance, algorithmic/AI bias, and generally consumer data protection. Santana grew up in Charlotte, NC and studied at Georgetown University, where she majored in Government and minored in Justice and Peace Studies.
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Selma Haveric
Selma is an attorney at Weil, Gotshal, and Manges. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she worked as a student attorney for the Criminal Justice Institute, representing indigent clients in criminal matters. Before law school, she attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied journalism and wrote on the Women's Issues Beat for the school newspaper.
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We can't wait to see what's in store for S.T.O.P. and the amazing work we'll do with our new Junior Board this year. Please donate to S.T.O.P. today to help make 2022 our biggest year yet in the fight to abolish mass surveillance. |
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With thanks,
Sam Van Doran
Development Director
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