Biography

I am an international lawyer from the US and incoming-PhD candidate in International Relations & Politics. My research focuses on digital surveillance and data protection in the FemTech industry. Motivated to pursue this research following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US in June 2022, I sought to harness my experience as a litigator and researcher at the intersection of law and technology to build a project aimed at investigating the burgeoning global data economy surrounding FemTech, and how to protect the data ecosystem of FemTech products from misuse and abuse under the incentive structures created by legal regimes hostile to reproductive freedoms. Previously as a practicing attorney, I have worked at a global law firm, concentrating my practice on international arbitration and foreign sovereign litigation matters, and particularly on matters concerning issues of public international law. There, I maintained an active pro bono practice of matters concerning international human rights and international criminal law. This involved, for example, working with the Human Trafficking Legal Clinic to seek justice for migrant workers in diplomatic households in proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and with the Center for Reproductive Rights in proceedings challenging Texas' SB-8 abortion ban. I also assisted in the drafting of comments on the ICC’s policy guide for gender-based crimes with the PILPG, and supervised student research on the applicability of international law in cyberspace with Temple University Law School’s Institute for Innovation, Law & Technology. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to pivot these interests into my full-time focus as a PhD candidate at Cambridge.

Previous Education

University of Pennsylvania Law 2021
University of Cambridge International Relations 2018
Lafayette College International Affairs & French 2017