Nadia Ghaffari
Co-President
Nadia graduated with a B.A. in Sociology and minors in Public Policy and Human Rights from UC Berkeley. She completed her Honors Thesis in Sociology on police use of surveillance technologies and activist mobilization in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked at Dropbox full-time as a Commercial Legal Analyst prior to law school, and she spent her 1L summer working at Orrick’s Cyber, Privacy, & Data Innovation practice.
Sophia Wang
Co-President
Sophia graduated from NYU with a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Economics. In college, she conducted Know Your Rights workshops on encounters with ICE and researched the use of biometrics and surveillance technology in immigration law enforcement. Before law school, she assisted data privacy counsel at a media and marketing company. She is interested in privacy litigation and consumer protection.
Maxwell Melnik
Vice President of Operations
Maxwell received his B.A. in New Media & Communication Technology from The Ohio State University. Before law school Maxwell worked at Xcel Energy, first as a Rotational Analyst, primarily in the IT and Security departments, and then as a Security Analyst in Vulnerability Management. He is interested in privacy and cybersecurity compliance and how evolving regulations affect the technology, media and telecommunications industry.