CGHR runs a Practitioner Series each year in Lent term, which often features rights activists, aid practitioners and journalists etc. Our speakers relate stories about their own experience — how they came to work in the field that they are in — with details about what the work itself involves. The session thus offers a combination of substantive discussion of the speaker’s work and critical views on the challenges of working in their area, as well as personal and practical insights into how they ended up doing what they do and how they would advise others thinking about practice/policy as a possible future after studies/research.

In this talk, we speak to Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.). He is also a Practitioner-in-Residence at N.Y.U. Law School’s Information Law Institute and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, Ashoka, and TED. As a lawyer, technologist, and activist, Albert has become a leading voice on how to govern and build the technologies of the future. He started S.T.O.P. with the belief that local surveillance is an unprecedented threat to public safety, equity, and democracy.

The online session will be moderated by CGHR Co-Directors Dr. Ella McPherson and Dr. Sharath Srinivasan.

zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/98394417381?pwd=SXB1dUt0cXlHbjR6bEh0ZEJtM2dZUT09

Meeting ID: 983 9441 7381