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, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, and 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 Justice Yvonne Mokgoro in the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She serves on the Board of Type Media Center and is an advisor to the California Initiative for Technology and Democracy (CITED), Aspiration Tech’s Policy Leadership Advisory Group, and Design It For Us (DIFU) a youth-led movement 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, 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.

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.

Melanie Pinkert
Operations Director

Melanie (she/her/ella) has been providing operations support to nonprofits for over twenty-five years. She has worked for organizations focused on a wide range of social justice issues, including supporting family caregivers (Health Projects Center), increasing food security (UCSC CASFS), confronting inequality (Oxfam International), and fighting for racial justice (The Advancement Project). Melanie graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz where she majored in Latin American Latino Studies and focused on human rights violations related to the war on drugs. Her community work is often focused on policing, prisons, family regulation systems, and a transition to ways of living together that do not rely on organized abandonment. When not working, Melanie is most likely making or growing something and therefore covered in paint, sawdust, flour, or garden dirt.

Kushal Dev
Communications 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.

Kaylee Williams
Communications Consultant

Kaylee Williams is a mixed methods researcher and writer studying technology-facilitated gender-based violence. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Columbia University, where her research focusses on generative AI and non-consensual intimate imagery. In addition to her doctoral studies, she serves as a senior research associate with the Information Integrity Initiative, a freelance journalist covering tech policy, and a communications strategist for mission-driven organizations, such as TJL. She previously held a research fellowship at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics & Public Policy, where she investigated coordinated disinformation and cyberharassment campaigns. She holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University.