Niharika Vattikonda - Junior Board Member

Niharika Vattikonda is an incoming graduate student at the University of Oxford, where she will pursue an MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is a technology policy researcher with a background in health data privacy and digital health and has previously worked at the Future of Privacy Forum and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Niharika’s recent research has focused on genetic data privacy and reproductive health privacy rights in the United States following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Through the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program, Niharika holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics (Quantitative) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the first graduate from Duke University’s Digital Intelligence Certificate program. As a student, Niharika co-wrote the Duke Chronicle’s award-winning “On Tech” column and led research at the Duke Cyber Policy and Gender Violence Initiative at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Niharika is currently based in Washington, D.C. and will attend Harvard Law School starting in Fall 2025, through the Junior Deferral Program.