Vision
To create a society in which communities can reap the benefits of technology while holding tech companies accountable for the harms their products facilitate.
Who We Are
Tech Justice Law Project works with a collective of legal experts, policy advocates, digital rights organizations, and technologists to ensure that legal and policy frameworks are fit for the digital age. By bringing together a range of critical players in the technology law and policy space, Tech Justice Law Project advocates for better, safer, and accountable online spaces.
Tech Justice Law Project is a legal initiative of Campaign for Accountability, a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that uses research, litigation, and aggressive communications to expose misconduct and malfeasance in public life.
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Meet Our Team
Meetali Jain
Director & Founder
Meetali Jain serves as TJLP’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
Director of Legal and Strategic Initiatives
Sarah Kay Wiley is a lawyer, researcher, and strategist working at the intersection of technology, law, and public accountability. At Tech Justice Law Project, she spearheads strategic efforts in litigation, coalition-building, and legislative advocacy to protect consumer rights and promote corporate accountability 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 adtech 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, platform liability, and First Amendment 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
Policy Counsel
Melodi (she/ella) is a tech justice lawyer with expertise in data privacy, “AI” policy, and biometric surveillance. Her critical approach explores how legal and political institutions enable corporate technologies to target marginalized communities in our schools, workplaces, homes, streets, and beyond. She has authored numerous agency comments and amicus briefs filed before the Federal Trade Commission, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Copyright Office, California Privacy Protection Agency, 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 continues to teach courses on data privacy, tech policy, and advocacy. Before coming to LA, she was a Supervising Attorney with NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic; her recent paper in the Clinical Law Review offers a justice-informed approach to client selection for tech law clinicians. 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.
Maddy Batt
Legal Fellow
Maddy Batt (she/her) is TJLP’s Legal Fellow. 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 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.
Tiffany Gillis Brown
Consultant
Tiffany Gillis Brown is an attorney with a background in healthcare, civil rights, and emerging technology. Before joining the Tech Justice Law Project, 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.
Kushal Dev
Consultant
Kushal Dev is a researcher, project manager, communications professional operating at the intersection of tech justice and queer youth expression. Prior to work at TJLP, 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.