Meet Our Team
Confronting tech industry abuses requires a cross-sector response. By bringing together leaders across law, technology, and research, Tech Justice Law builds innovative and winning legal strategies to hold tech companies accountable.
Meetali Jain
Director & Founder
Meetali Jain serves as TJL’s founding executive director. Over the course of her career, Meetali has worked as a lawyer, policy advocate, campaigner and educator. She started her career by representing detainees post-9/11 accused of terrorism, including at Guantanamo Bay, and by organizing in South Asian and Muslim communities impacted by surveillance and racial profiling. She’s also litigated cases involving human rights, immigrant justice, and challenging corporate power. Meetali worked at the Morrison & Foerster and Goldstein Demchak law firms, taught human rights and constitutional law in law clinics at American University, Seton Hall, and in law schools across South Africa. In 2017, while working as Campaign and Legal Director at Avaaz, Meetali began working on issues of disinformation and broader tech harms globally. In 2021, she joined Reset Tech where she focused primarily on issues of tech law and policy in the US. Meetali clerked for the Honorable Virginia Phillips in the U.S. Central District of California and for Justice Yvonne Mokgoro in the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She serves on the Boards of the Integrity Institute, Type Media Center, and is an advisor to the California Initiative for Technology and Democracy (CITED), and Design It For Us (DIFU) and ReThink Citizens Youth Squad Advisory Coalition, both youth-led movements to build better tech spaces for young people.
Sarah Kay Wiley
Managing Director
Sarah Kay Wiley is a lawyer, researcher, and expert in tech companies’ monetization strategies. At Tech Justice Law Project she spearheads strategic efforts in litigation, policy advocacy, and corporate accountability to protect consumers in the digital age. Before joining TJLP, Sarah was Policy Director at Check My Ads Institute, the digital advertising industry’s first watchdog. There, she led groundbreaking campaigns to expose opacity in the advertising technology supply chain, drafted model legislation, and helped spur congressional inquiries into ad-funded harms. Prior to her policy work, Sarah was a Knight News Innovation Fellow at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores the political economy of the news industry and the evolving relationships between platforms, AI companies, advertisers, and journalism. Sarah earned her law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2016. Before entering academia, she advised startups on data privacy and intermediary liability issues. Outside of work, Sarah can be found skiing, mountain biking, or trail running—basically anything that involves moving downhill at questionable speeds.
Melodi Dinçer
Senior Staff Attorney
Melodi (she/ella) is a tech justice lawyer and expert in digital replicas, data privacy, and regulating so-called artificial intelligence products. She has conceived of and authored dozens of agency comments and amicus briefs on a variety of tech issues filed before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), U.S. Copyright Office (USCO), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), and various state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Melodi is also a Fellow with the Institute of Technology, Law and Policy at UCLA and a Lecturer at UCLA Law, where she runs the Information Policy Lab, an experiential course where students learn how to practice tech law in the public’s interest. Before coming to LA, she was a Supervising Attorney with NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic and published scholarship offering a justice-informed method for client intake in tech law clinics. She has also served as a Legal Research Fellow with the Knowing Machines Research Group, a Fellow with NYU Law’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and an Appellate Advocacy Fellow with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). She clerked for the Honorable Arenda L. Wright Allen on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Beyond tech lawyering, Melodi is a trained musician, dancer, and acrobat.
Tiffany Gillis Brown
Litigation Counsel
Tiffany Gillis Brown is an attorney with a background in healthcare, civil rights, and emerging technology. Before joining the Tech Justice Law, Tiffany was a Legal and Policy Analyst at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division where she focused on legislative and regulatory trends and the intersection of civil rights law and technology, including AI. She co-led the Division’s working group on AI, focusing on tracking and analyzing key litigation, creating avenues for interagency collaboration, and developing the Division’s enforcement strategy in the tech space. Prior to joining the Division, she was a Policy Analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a Paralegal at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Networks and Technology Enforcement Section, and has held various policy and consulting positions in the private sector. She is a graduate of Duke University and the George Washington University Law School.
Maddy Batt
Legal Fellow
Maddy Batt (she/her) is TJL’s Legal Fellow. Maddy comes to tech accountability work from a background in civil rights and immigrant justice movement lawyering. Prior to TJL, 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 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.
Kushal Dev
Operations Consultant
Kushal Dev is a researcher and communications strategist operating at the intersection of tech justice and queer youth expression. Prior to work at TJL, he was a Research Fellow & Production Associate at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, where he managed research projects on data privacy policy and online youth safety and co-produced award-winning podcast seasons focused on the intersections of free expression, technology, and immigrant rights.
Board of Directors
Melanie Sloan
Board Chair
Partner, Summer Strategies
Senior Advisory, American Oversight
Adam Hollander
Treasurer
Partner, Slarskey LLC
Laura Bingham
Secretary
Director of Temple University Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology
Advisory Board
Carrie Goldberg
Founding Attorney, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC
Ravi Iyer
Managing Director, USC Marshall School’s Neely Center
Peter Romer-Friedman
Founder & Managing Partner, Peter Romer-Friedman Law
Linda Singer
Partner, Motley Rice, LLC
Olivier Sylvain
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Senior Policy Research Fellow, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University