Leah Frazier is the director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The Digital Justice Initiative engages in policy advocacy and impact litigation to advance racial justice at the intersection of AI and other emerging technology; privacy; and civil rights. Frazier spent the majority of her legal career at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigating and suing companies for exploiting consumers. During her tenure at the FTC, Leah brought a groundbreaking case against Rite Aid for using facial recognition technology to identify potential shoplifters in a manner that disproportionately harmed Black, Asian, Latino, and women customers. Her work covered the responsible use of AI, privacy, for-profit education, lead generation, housing, credit, and debt collection. In addition, Frazier served as an attorney advisor to former FTC Chair Lina Khan on a broad range of consumer protection law enforcement and policy matters. She also litigated in private practice, served as a law clerk to a Kentucky’s Supreme Court judge, and was President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area. Leah has been a longstanding advocate for racial justice and civil rights, working to advance racial diversity in the judiciary, racial profiling, and to protect immigrant rights.

Gillian Cassell-Stiga is Senior Counsel with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, with whom she investigates and pursues civil rights litigation related to technology and racial justice. Gillian particularly focuses on issues of broadband access, voter protection, biometrics, privacy, surveillance, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Gillian worked on voting rights litigation as Special Counsel for Free Speech for People and as an associate with Beldock Levine & Hoffman, LLP, where she pursued federal civil rights claims arising from unconstitutional policing and criminal justice practices. Gillian serves on the board of Soccer Without Borders and received a M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and a B.S from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jina John is Policy Counsel at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where she works on policy initiatives concerning digital justice and criminal justice. Jina joined the Lawyers’ Committee from the New York Attorney General’s Office where she served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Bureau of Internet and Technology, working on enforcement and policy matters related to privacy, cybersecurity, online platform accountability, and regulating developing technologies, including Artificial Intelligence. She previously worked as a privacy and cybersecurity attorney in private practice, where she advised companies on compliance with U.S. and international privacy laws and represented companies in technology-related investigations and enforcement actions before federal and state agencies. Jina holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from New York University.