Melodi (she/ella) is a tech justice lawyer with expertise in data privacy, digital civil liberties, biometric surveillance, and statistical models commonly referred to as "AI". She serves as Policy Counsel for the Tech Justice Law Project (TJLP), a new tech accountability initiative that brings together academics, policy advocates, digital rights organizations, and technologists to ensure legal and policy frameworks are fit for the digital age. Her critical approach explores how legal and political institutions enable corporate technologies to amass power at the expense of marginalized communities. 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. She is also an Affiliated Fellow and former Resident Fellow and Lecturer with UCLA’s Institute of Technology, Law and Policy (ITLP). Melodi is an active advocate for increased experiential learning opportunities in tech law and policy. Before coming to Los Angeles, she was a Supervising Attorney with NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic; her work on tech justice client intake has been published in the Clinical Law Review. Melodi 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. She holds A.B.s in Religious Studies and Classics-Latin from Brown University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.