Melodi (she/ella) is a tech justice lawyer and expert in digital replicas, data privacy, biometric surveillance, and statistical models commonly referred to as "AI". She is a Senior Staff Attorney with Tech Justice Law, a pioneering impact litigation and advocacy organization renowned for bringing the first wrongful death lawsuit against an LLM-based chatbot product in Garcia v. Character Technologies. 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 co-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 where she 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 focused on legal issues with AI training datasets, 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 on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (the “rocket docket”). 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.