Ellen Jin
Co-President
Ellen received her B.A. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College. She then went on to complete a MPhil in Law from the University of Oxford, focusing on healthcare, intellectual property, and consumer protection. She developed an interest in privacy law issues when she was a policy intern at the Future of Privacy Forum. She is interested in digital technology transformation, healthcare, and AI issues in privacy.
Harshini Malli
Co-President
Harshini graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration, an additional major in Ethics, History, and Public Policy, and a minor in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. This past summer, she was a judicial extern in the Northern District of California. She is a clinical student in the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Policy Clinic, and is interested in the intersection of technology, civil liberties, and criminal justice.
Connor Hughes
Vice President of Programming
Connor is a double bear and studied Economics and Political Science as an undergrad and completed an M.Sc in Behavioral Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He spent his 1L summer working at Orrick and Xcel Energy on energy and infrastructure projects and regulatory matters. He is broadly interested in telecommunications privacy, energy regulation, and antitrust law.
Kathy Bui
Vice President of Communications
Kathy Bui graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science and minored in Global Studies. Before law school, she worked at Endeavor, a global entertainment and sports talent agency, in their in-house litigation department. This past summer she was a judicial extern at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She is interested in the intersection of technology, media, and entertainment law, and specifically how social media companies and consumer-facing sites adapt to evolving privacy regulations.
Maxwell Melnik
Vice President of Operations
Maxwell received his B.A. in New Media & Communication Technology from The Ohio State University. Before law school Maxwell worked at Xcel Energy, first as a Rotational Analyst, primarily in the IT and Security departments, and then as a Security Analyst in Vulnerability Management. He is interested in privacy and cybersecurity compliance and how evolving regulations affect the technology, media and telecommunications industry.
Idil Delmas
LL.M. Representative
Idil graduated from a double degree in Laws, holding a Bachelor.of Laws from both King’s College London and University Paris Panthéon-Assas. She also has a Masters in Private International Law. She then pursued internships in White Collar Crime and Fintech. She has written about privacy rights and BigTech for a student legal news journal in the United Kingdom. She is interested in surveillance and privacy regulation from a civil liberties perspective.
Sapir Shabo
LL.M. Representative
Hailing from Tel Aviv, Israel, Sapir is a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer. She holds an LLB and an LLM from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Over the past two years, she has been working at the Israel National Cyber Directorate as the dedicated legal counsel for the national Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT). She is interested in emerging technologies in privacy, surveillance issues, and cybersecurity regulation and standards.
Nadia Ghaffari
1L Representative (Programming)
Nadia graduated with a B.A. in Sociology and minors in Public Policy and Human Rights from UC Berkeley. She completed her Honors Thesis in Sociology on police use of surveillance technologies and activist mobilization in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also worked at Dropbox for one year as a Legal Analyst prior to starting at Berkeley Law. She is interested in technology, civil liberties, and digital rights (particularly in the face of the carceral state).
Jessica Lynn
1L Representative
(Programming)
Jessica graduated with a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley. Before law school, she worked in digital marketing at the software company Atlassian for five years. She is interested in the intersection of technology, privacy, and civil liberties.
Sophia Wang
1L Representative
(Professional Development)
Sophia Wang graduated from NYU with a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Economics. In college, she conducted Know Your Rights workshops on encounters with ICE and researched the use of biometrics and surveillance technology in immigration law enforcement. Before law school, she assisted data privacy counsel at a media and marketing company. She is interested in privacy litigation and consumer protection.
Abby Smith
1L Representative
(Professional Development)
Abby graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.B.A in Business Administration and an additional major in Economics. She then went on to work as an advertising strategist for a data science firm where she led monetization methods for Boosted Search. It was here that she gained an interest in privacy law from her work enhancing algorithms and implementing personalization with first party data. She is interested in consumer justice, data privacy, and labor rights.