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Friend,
Say hello to S.T.O.P.’s newest interns! We’re thrilled to welcome this talented group and can't wait to see what the rest of the spring has in store.
Our Spring 2026 Intern Class
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Anusha Dani
Research Intern
Anusha Dani is a student at NYU majoring in Politics with minors in Public Policy and History. She has experience in state and federal government, including work with a Washington State Senator and the executive branch in Washington, D.C. Her interests center on government transparency, freedom of information, and accountability in the use of surveillance technologies. Anusha plans to attend law school and continue work that strengthens public oversight of government institutions and builds trust between the U.S. government and its citizens.
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Anjali Del Toro Chandel
Civil Rights Intern
Anjali is a recent graduate of Barnard College. She graduated with a major in Psychology, earning Departmental Distinction, and a minor in Political Science. Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she previously worked for a local immigration law firm in Chicago, providing legal services and outreach to the Midwest community. At S.T.O.P., she is interested in exploring the intersection of surveillance and privacy issues, and the U.S. immigration system, with a specific focus on First and Fourth Amendment considerations. In her free time, she enjoys baking, hiking, and going to the beach with friends.
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Arabelle Park
Advocacy Intern
Arabelle Park (she/her) is a student at Barnard College studying Political Science and Human Rights, and minoring in Computer Science. She has researched the historical impacts of surveillance on Asian American communities and built databases tracking government surveillance and content moderation. Her work has centered on the disparate impacts of technology on communities and broader civil rights conversations in federal tech policy. On campus, Park is engaged in policy work, journalism, and student organizing. She enjoys long walks, dog-watching, and playing in musical ensembles.
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Dian Dian Jonas-Walsh
Civil Rights Intern
Dian Dian is a recent graduate of Barnard College, where she majored in American Studies. She wrote her thesis about eugenics, nativism, and social class within taxidermy. Previously, she worked as an archivist at the American Museum of Natural History and the Center for Brooklyn History.
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Erin Taylor
Legal Intern
Erin Taylor is a 3L in the evening program at CUNY School of Law and currently works at NBCUniversal in the Corporate Legal Affairs department. She has served as an editor on the CUNY Law Review for the past three semesters, where her work has focused on issues of race, surveillance, privacy, and free speech. Erin’s academic and professional interests sit at the intersection of national security, technology, and civil liberties, and after graduation she hopes to pursue a career in international law with a focus on surveillance and freedom of expression.
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Jessica Lin
Civil Rights Intern
Jessica Lin is a political science student at Boston University dedicated to helping underprivileged communities get the support they need. Jessica has also previously worked with various non-profits and law firms.
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Kevin Hernandez
Research Intern
Kevin is a graduate of Rice University, where he studied Computer Science. His past research has focused on human-computer interaction and how AI is restructuring our learning, labor, and governance. He has worked with collaborators at Stanford University, Columbia University, and public interest technology consulting firms. He is interested in how language models and agentic systems influence human sense-making and deliberation, and in designing AI systems that better these processes.
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Lucy Jackson
Nonprofit Development Intern
Lucy is currently a student, author, and advocate for technological change.
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Maxx Kipnes
Legal Intern
Maxx Kipnes is a third-year law student at Georgetown University, studying data privacy, intellectual property, and entertainment law. After graduating from Georgetown Law in May, Maxx intends to seek admission to the District of Columbia and New York bar associations.
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Michael Endrias
Research Intern
Michael Endrias is a J.D. Candidate at Howard University School of Law, specializing in privacy and internet governance. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from The New School. Michael has affiliations with the Supervised Program for Alignment Research, the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, and the Internet Infrastructure Coalition. Outside of his professional work, Michael enjoys urban biking, reading non-fiction, competitive SSB, and blogging.
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Nava Ebadollahi
Civil Rights Intern
Nava is a junior at Columbia University studying Philosophy with a minor in Science and Society. Her interests focus on AI governance, technology regulation, and the ethical implications of emerging technologies on human autonomy. She previously interned at Suffolk University's Legal Innovation and Technology Lab, where she assisted Massachusetts residents by producing an accessible guided interview for small claims cases. Nava is the Print Co-Executive Editor for the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review and a researcher at Columbia's cognitive science lab. She explores the intersection between philosophy and technology, assessing the moral implications of assigning AI personhood and its subsequent implications. Her work is committed to determining technology's effects on society and advocating for advancements in accountable AI regulation.
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Nikki Muggli
Legal Intern
Nikki Muggli is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Maine School of Law (Class of 2027) in Portland, Maine, where she is active in student leadership, privacy, and public interest work. She serves as a staff editor and incoming managing editor for the Student Informational Privacy Journal and as a member of the Moot Court Competition Team. Her professional experience spans digital privacy, trade compliance, and human rights, including a legal externship at Geiger focused on privacy policy development, regulatory risk management, as well as a legal internship with the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) working on state privacy legislation and policy comment drafting. During her first-year summer, she worked to advance asylum-based advocacy and immigration policy at the Alliance of Idaho, developing legal research and client-centered advocacy skills in support of immigrant communities. Before law school, Nikki earned a master’s degree in International Relations with an emphasis in global governance from IE Business School in Madrid. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Kyung Hee University in South Korea, completing an undergraduate thesis on reframing internet shutdowns through a human-centered security lens and studying abroad at EDHEC Business School in France, while interning with the U.S. Department of State on internet freedom and human rights policy and with the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee under Baek Buhm Suk.
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Reily Fairchild
Research Intern
Reily is a research intern at S.T.O.P. and a recent graduate from UC Berkeley, where she studied Applied Mathematics and Data Science. She previously worked as the technical lead for an open access overlay journal of infectious disease preprints, a product management intern for the National ACLU, and as a data analyst for the Eviction Research Network. In her free time, she enjoys biking, tinkering, and dancing.
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Kyla Schwarzbach
Advocacy Intern
Kyla Schwarzbach is a senior at Barnard College majoring in Urban Studies with a concentration in Geography. She is passionate about maintaining affordable and sustainable communities. Her current research focuses on urban branding in San Francisco neighborhoods and housing policy in the Bay Area. She has a strong interest in public advocacy and exploring the intersection between technology and human rights.
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Keep an eye out for the great work ahead!
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In Solidarity,
Team S.T.O.P.
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