My path hasn't followed the typical tech trajectory. It started with a belief: that the rules governing our world, legal, technological, cultural, determine who gets access and who gets left out.
As a legal fellow at NASA, I began to understand how institutions encode their values into their structures. At the White House, in First Lady Michelle Obama's policy shop, I saw how policy can be wielded to reshape opportunity. At the U.S. Department of Commerce, I led President Obama's manufacturing initiative and worked on U.S.-Africa trade and energy agreements, work that showed me how systems scale.
Then I moved into technology. At Airbnb, I helped create Project Lighthouse, an industry-first initiative to measure and address discrimination on the platform. When 1.3 million users refused to commit to non-discrimination and left, it proved something important: platforms make choices, and those choices matter.
At Meta, as Associate General Counsel and Civil Rights Product Lead, I led the Race Data Measurement initiative, developing privacy-preserving methodologies to understand how marginalized communities experience technology. I created Project Height, a framework for inclusive product development paired with a $250K+ scholarship program investing in the next generation of civil rights and tech leaders.
Today, as Chairwoman of the Digital Civil Rights Coalition, I lead a global network working to shape an inclusive digital ecosystem. As an appointed member of the FCC's Communications Equity and Diversity Council, I co-chair the Innovation and Access Working Group, developing national strategies for digital access.
And through it all, I've been a storyteller. An award-winning filmmaker producing docuseries centered around healing and hip hop, because I know that systems don't change until stories do.