My Primary Roles: EU policy analysis & digital rights advocacy
Project Context: Stanford In Government (SIG) Fellowship Recipient
This page documents my time as a research fellow on Access Now's policy team in Brussels, as a recipient of the Stanford In Government Fellowship. I spent most of my time working directly with the policy team to understand changing policies and determine advocacy strategy by attending EU committee hearings, researching social/cultural changes and legal risks in changing regulations, and preparing policy briefs used across Access Now and partner orgs. This was during the 2016 Brexit referendum, which had its own set of policy implications.
The bulk of my work was focused on digital rights advocacy, net neutrality, user privacy, and EU trade deals. Here are a few pieces that capture the essence of the work I did:
Why transparency matters in Europe’s trade negotiations
BEREC is closing its consultation on Net Neutrality. Did we save the internet?