Weaponizing Technology: Examining the Importance of Privacy in an Era of Unprecedented Digital Surveillance

Sapna Khatri, J.D., is the Sears Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law School. Her policy work spans a range of privacy, gender, and reproductive justice work at the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy and the Williams Institute. She recently helped launch the nation's first Medical Legal Partnership at a local Planned Parenthood, and UCLA Law's inaugural Reproductive Justice Externship Seminar. Her scholarship is rooted in reproductive justice and examines technology as a weapon of reproductive oppression. Before joining UCLA Law, she worked as a Staff Attorney with the Women's & Reproductive Rights Project at the ACLU of Illinois, and later as an Advocacy & Policy Counsel with the organization. She led amicus efforts on a religious refusals case before the IL Human Right Commission and lobbied for the successful passage of the Reproductive Health Act and Protecting Household Privacy Act. Sapna has a J.D. from Washington University, as well as a B.A. in International Studies and a B.J. in Strategic Communication from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her publications have appeared in the Washington University Global Studies Law Review and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others. She currently also serves as a Fellow with the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.