About Me

I’m a lawyer working at the intersection of national security and privacy. I’m currently Regulatory Counsel for Privacy at Google. Before that, I spent nine years in the Justice Department’s National Security Division, most recently as Director of Policy & Technology, helping intelligence and law enforcement agencies adopt emerging technology like artificial intelligence, building compliance programs, and conducting investigations and trainings. The details are on my résumé and LinkedIn.

In the past, I’ve worked for the National Park Service in Yosemite and Earthjustice in Alaska. I built a system for diagramming relationships among terrorist groups and worked on rule of law reconstruction in post-conflict Timor-Leste. My article about the state secrets privilege analyzes the complex balance between civil liberties, privacy, and national security.

Outside of work, I love exploring the world through hiking, backpacking, and traveling, and you’ll usually find me taking pictures along the way. I’ve spent two months in the Alaskan wilderness, climbed mountains like the Grand Teton and Mount Shasta, gone backcountry skiing, and visited places around the world from the Arctic Circle to the tropics of the Indian Ocean and the southern reaches of Patagonia.

I’m also deeply interested in technology, and I enjoy tinkering with programming and web development, like building this website.

I love reading. I’m a bit of a science fiction and fantasy nerd, though I also read plenty of historical and contemporary fiction, as well as non-fiction.

If you’d like to chat, feel free to drop me a line.