Jen Lee

Jen Lee, from Queens, New York, is pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University, where she triple-majored in international studies, public health, and sociology. She earned a master’s degree in public policy at the University of Cambridge. Jen aspires to continue fighting to make technology accountable to people, and use her legal education to become a stronger policy advocate. As the technology policy lead at the ACLU of Washington, Jen led the drafting and introduction of the People’s Privacy Act and the country’s strongest algorithmic accountability bill. She helped introduce and pass the United States’ first county-wide facial-recognition ban. Jen serves as a co-chair of Seattle’s Community Surveillance Working Group and the Association of Computing Machinery’s FAccT conference. At Johns Hopkins, she received both the Provost’s and the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards and the Outstanding Senior Award. She was the keynote speaker at the Electronic Privacy Information Center AI Symposium.