On August 25, 2025, the Tech Justice Law Project welcomed its first Legal Fellow, Maddy Batt.
Maddy comes to tech accountability work from a background in civil rights and immigrant justice movement lawyering. Prior to TJLP, she worked to combat abusive technologies in the immigration system at Just Futures Law and app-based loan sharks at New Economy Project. She graduated from NYU School of Law with Order of the Coif honors in May 2025, where she was a Hays Civil Liberties Fellow and interned at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Make the Road NY. At NYU Law, Maddy advocated in partnership with immigrant organizers through the Immigrant Rights Clinic and low-income drivers as co-president of the Taxi Worker Defense Collective. She is committed to resisting the use of technology to surveil and disempower marginalized communities and their movements.