Ariana Aboulafia

Ariana Aboulafia leads the Disability Rights in Technology Policy project at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Her work currently focuses on maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms of technologies for people with disabilities, including through focusing on algorithmic bias and privacy in employment, healthcare, and use of assistive technology. Ariana is an attorney with particular expertise in disability, technology, criminal law, and the First Amendment. She was first introduced to technology while serving as a fellow at the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, and she later worked as an assistant public defender in Miami-Dade County, and an officer in the Journalism program at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Her writing has been featured in several publications, including the University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy and the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, as well as Slate, Tech Policy Press, and Teen Vogue.