Tech Policy Grind

Foundry Fellow Ekene Chuks-Okeke chats artificial intelligence and intellectual property with Juyoun Han, Franklin Graves, and Elena Gurevich.

Recent law school grad and Class 4 Fellow Allyson McReynolds talks through her career beginnings on the Hill to a pivot into cyberlaw.

Foundry Fellow Dyllan Brown-Bramble chats with Micaela Mantegna, Bikalpa Neupane, and Adil Islam on the basics of artificial intelligence.

In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed interviews Pamela San Martín, Board Member of the Oversight Board to discuss the success, lessons learned, and the cases filed from their latest Annual Report.

Joe Catapano sits down with Sally Costerton, Interim President & CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Meri chats with Ayden Férdeline about the Internet Governance ecosystem, the Global Digital Compact, and the roles of various stakeholders.

Fellow Evan Enzer chats with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)'s Albert Fox Cahn on the intersections of speech, gaming and civil rights.

Reema chats with Talha Baig about how AI is applied in the integrity space - and the implications of AI on the integrity space itself.

This week Meri sits down with Class 4 Fellow Ellen Magallanes to chat about her career in privacy law and work at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Class 4 Fellow Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with former Fellow Ashkhen Kazaryan about her journey to discover and evangelize the tech policy community.

Today, class is in session for Health Privacy 101 with FPF's Jordan Wrigley and Wilmer Hale & American University's Kirk Nahra.

In this episode, we hit the road once again for our North American tour of some major tech policy conferences. This time, we head to the ICANN76 Community Forum in Cancún, Mexico, the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) 2023 Conference in Denver, Colorado, and the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC.

Reema chats with Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed about her career path and DIY creation of a her own "tech policy major" at American University.

In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed chats with new Foundry Fellows Ekene Chuks-Okeke and Lili Siri Spira on their tech policy journeys, induction to The Foundry, experience at State of the Net and more!

In this episode, Reema chats with Matt Perault (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Yaël Eisenstat (Anti-Defamation League) on the wonderful world of Section 230 and the current landscape of platform liability. Reema and Joe also talk child privacy and safety with Natalie Campbell (Internet Society).

For Part 1 of our conversations at State of the Net, Reema and Lama sit down with Alan Davidson (NTIA), Bertram Lee Jr. (Future of Privacy Forum), and Patrick Lin (Latham & Watkins).

Joe Catapano chats with Adam Kovacevich, Chamber of Progress and Carl Szabo, NetChoice on whether the U.S. can, will, or should ban TikTok.

In this episode, some familiar voices from the Tech Policy Grind team come together to review the revival of the pod with Season 3 this year.

Reema chats with Nathan Reitinger, Foundry Fellow, lawyer, and PhD Candidate on his career at the nexus of law and computer science.

Reema chats with Keir Lamont, Senior Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum to recap privacy legislation in 2022 and what's coming in 2023.

Joe Catapano, ILPF Class 4 fellow interviews Edward McNair, Executive Director of the North America Network Operators Group (NANOG).

Reema chats with Class 4 Foundry Fellow Caitlin Chin from CSIS, on her work at the intersection of privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic bias.

In this episode, Foundry Fellow Meri Baghdasaryan sat down with the representatives of three winning teams at the Foundry’s 2022 Policy Hackathon: “Trust, Safety and Privacy in the Metaverse.”

Foundry Fellows Reema Moussa, Allyson McReynolds, Grant Versfeld & Lama Mohammed discuss highlights from the Foundry's first ever virtual cybersecurity convention, CYBER CON, starring Amie D'souza, Josephine Wolff, Kassi Burns, Eva Galperin and Siena Anstis. They chat about the event's key theme; cybersecurity risk mitigation in law and policy, as well as particular practices around of cyber insur...

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind! This week, Reema chats with former Foundry Fellow Lena Ghamrawi on her pathway to becoming a privacy attorney. In this episode, she shares her experience growing up in the post-9/11 surveillance environment and how her passion for civil rights (and mentorship along the way) cultivated an interest in privacy law.