Emily Paul

Emily Paul is a project director at Upturn. She was previously a 2019 TechCongress Fellow in the Office of Congressman Mark Takano (CA-41). In Congressman Takano’s office she drafted and helped introduce the Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act and the Office of Technology Assessment Improvement and Enhancement Act, and also ran a series of design thinking workshops for Congressional staffers. Prior to TechCongress she was a user experience researcher at Salesforce, where she conducted research with customer service workers to inform the design and development of Salesforce’s customer service software. While at Salesforce she co-authored an open letter to the company’s CEO challenging Salesforce’s contract with Customs and Border Protection, which was signed by over 900 employees. Prior to working in technology, Emily worked in fundraising and communications at The New Press and at the Center for Global Development.

Emily has a master’s from UC Berkeley’s School of Information and a B.A. in Economics and International Studies from Emory University.

Interested in redistributing power around technology to the people most impacted by it. Aspiring poet.

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Comments on OSTP's Biometrics Technologies RFI

We submitted comments in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s request for information on public and private sector uses of biometric technologies.

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Amicus Brief on Probabilistic DNA Analysis

Working with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School, we filed a brief in New Jersey v. Pickett supporting the defense’s request to fully examine TrueAllele, the probabilistic DNA analysis software used in the case, in order to assess its reliability.

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