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Tech Policy Grind Episodes
Artificial Intelligence 101 [S4E14]
Foundry Fellow Dyllan Brown-Bramble chats with Micaela Mantegna, Bikalpa Neupane, and Adil Islam on the basics of artificial intelligence.
Catching Up with the Oversight Board: Reporting on Content Moderation, Elections & Human Rights with Pamela San Martín [S4E13]
In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed interviews Pamela San Martín, Board Member of the Oversight Board to discuss the success, lessons learned, and the cases filed from their latest Annual Report.
Collaborating for a Secure, Stable Internet: A Conversation with ICANN’s Sally Costerton [S4E12]
Joe Catapano sits down with Sally Costerton, Interim President & CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Rethinking Multistakerholderism in Internet Governance with Ayden Férdeline [S4E11]
Meri chats with Ayden Férdeline about the Internet Governance ecosystem, the Global Digital Compact, and the roles of various stakeholders.
Gaming and Civil Rights with Albert Fox Cahn [S4E10]
Fellow Evan Enzer chats with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)’s Albert Fox Cahn on the intersections of speech, gaming and civil rights.
AI Integrity with Talha Baig [S4E09]
Reema chats with Talha Baig about how AI is applied in the integrity space – and the implications of AI on the integrity space itself.
Connecting the Dots Backwards with Ellen Magallanes [S4E08]
This week Meri sits down with Class 4 Fellow Ellen Magallanes to chat about her career in privacy law and work at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Finding the Tech Policy Community with Ashkhen Kazaryan [S4E07]
Class 4 Fellow Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with former Fellow Ashkhen Kazaryan about her journey to discover and evangelize the tech policy community.
Health Privacy 101 with Jordan Wrigley and Kirk Nahra [S4E06]
Today, class is in session for Health Privacy 101 with FPF’s Jordan Wrigley and Wilmer Hale & American University’s Kirk Nahra.
The TPG North American Tour: the Foundry Takes ICANN76, WiCyS ’23, and IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit [S4E05]
In this episode, we hit the road once again for our North American tour of some major tech policy conferences. This time, we head to the ICANN76 Community Forum in Cancún, Mexico, the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) 2023 Conference in Denver, Colorado, and the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC.
A DIY Tech Policy Major: Fellow Highlight with Lama Mohammed [S4E04]
Reema chats with Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed about her career path and DIY creation of a her own “tech policy major” at American University.
Welcome to Our New Foundry Fellows: the Next Generation of Tech Policy Professionals [S4E03]
In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed chats with new Foundry Fellows Ekene Chuks-Okeke and Lili Siri Spira on their tech policy journeys, induction to The Foundry, experience at State of the Net and more!
Digital Safety and That Section 230 Thing – Conversations from State of the Net (Part 2) [S4E02]
In this episode, Reema chats with Matt Perault (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Yaël Eisenstat (Anti-Defamation League) on the wonderful world of Section 230 and the current landscape of platform liability. Reema and Joe also talk child privacy and safety with Natalie Campbell (Internet Society).
What’s Going on with the Web? Conversations from State of the Net 2023 (Part 1) [S4E01]
For Part 1 of our conversations at State of the Net, Reema and Lama sit down with Alan Davidson (NTIA), Bertram Lee Jr. (Future of Privacy Forum), and Patrick Lin (Latham & Watkins).
Will the U.S. Ban TikTok? With Adam Kovacevich and Carl Szabo [S4E00]
Joe Catapano chats with Adam Kovacevich, Chamber of Progress and Carl Szabo, NetChoice on whether the U.S. can, will, or should ban TikTok.
A Year in Review with the Tech Policy Grind [S3E30]
In this episode, some familiar voices from the Tech Policy Grind team come together to review the revival of the pod with Season 3 this year.
When Law and Computer Science Meet: Fellow Highlight with Nathan Reitinger [S3E29]
Reema chats with Nathan Reitinger, Foundry Fellow, lawyer, and PhD Candidate on his career at the nexus of law and computer science.
Privacy Legislation in 2023: What’s Coming in the New Year? with Keir Lamont [S3E28]
Reema chats with Keir Lamont, Senior Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum to recap privacy legislation in 2022 and what’s coming in 2023.
Implementing the Rules of the Network Road: A Conversation with NANOG Executive Director Edward McNair [S3E27]
Joe Catapano, ILPF Class 4 fellow interviews Edward McNair, Executive Director of the North America Network Operators Group (NANOG).
Privacy, Antitrust, and Algorithmic Bias; Working at the Intersections with Caitlin Chin [S3E26]
Reema chats with Class 4 Foundry Fellow Caitlin Chin from CSIS, on her work at the intersection of privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic bias.
A Word with Our 2022 Policy Hackathon Winners [S3E25]
In this episode, Foundry Fellow Meri Baghdasaryan sat down with the representatives of three winning teams at the Foundry’s 2022 Policy Hackathon: “Trust, Safety and Privacy in the Metaverse.”
Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation and Prevention: A Very Merry CYBER CON Recap [S3E24]
Foundry Fellows Reema Moussa, Allyson McReynolds, Grant Versfeld & Lama Mohammed discuss highlights from the Foundry’s first ever virtual cybersecurity convention, CYBER CON, starring Amie D’souza, Josephine Wolff, Kassi Burns, Eva Galperin and Siena Anstis. They chat about the event’s key theme; cybersecurity risk mitigation in law and policy, as well as particular practices around of cyber insurance, cyber hygiene for lawyers, and spyware.
Pathfinding in Privacy Law: a Data Protection Officer’s Story with Lena Ghamrawi [S3E23]
Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind! This week, Reema chats with former Foundry Fellow Lena Ghamrawi on her pathway to becoming a privacy attorney. In this episode, she shares her experience growing up in the post-9/11 surveillance environment and how her passion for civil rights (and mentorship along the way) cultivated an interest in privacy law.
Perils of Prescriptive Policy: a Technologist’s View with Jeremy Avnet [S3E22]
How should tech policy guide engineers during development? Fellow Rebecca Kilberg chats policy implementation and the perils of prescriptive policy with technologist Jeremy Avnet.
Beyond Bitcoin: What is Web3, Anyways? [S3E21]
In this episode, Foundry Fellow, Dyllan Brown-Bramble sits down with Gabrielle Hibbert, a Fellow at the Decentralized Future Council and Hillary Brill an Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law to discuss the work of the Decentralized Future Council, the future of Web3 law and policy, and why early-career professionals should get up to speed on it.
Building a Career in Cybersecurity Public Service with Patrick Kyhos [S3E20]
Reema and former Foundry Fellow Patrick Kyhos chat about his career in cyber public service and the evolution of the Foundry.
Trust and Safety in the Metaverse [S3E19]
Foundry Fellows Lama Mohammed and Anuradha Herur discuss implementing trust and safety standards in the Metaverse with Jodi Masters-Gonzales, the Founder and Chief Futurist of Humble Science, Nina Jane Patel, the Co-Founder and Vice President of Metaverse Research at Kabuni, and Kristina Podnar, the Global Digital Policy Advisor at the XR Safety Initiative (XRSI).
Different Perspectives on the Metaverse [S3E18]
Class 4 Fellow Ashwini Natesan chats with a variety of stakeholders and professionals in the Metaverse space on their differing perspectives.
Privacy in the Metaverse with Libby Weingarten, Katitza Rodriguez, and Sasha Danielyan [S3E17]
Meri and Reema chat privacy in the Metaverse with Sasha Danielyan (Niantic), Katitza Rodriguez (EFF), and Libby Weingarten (Wilson Sonsini).
Metaverse 101 with Joel Scharlat, Calli Schroeder, and Chris Riley [S3E16]
Foundry Fellow Dyllan Brown-Bramble chats with Joel Scharlat, Director of Operations for the Cyber Bytes Foundation and Co-Founder of XR Village, Calli Schroeder, Global Privacy Counsel at EPIC, and Chris Riley, Senior Fellow at R Street, about the who, what, when, where and why of the Metaverse.