Emily Tucker

Emily Tucker is the executive director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, where she leads a research and advocacy program dedicated to exposing and opposing digital era government and corporate surveillance. Under her leadership, the center has published groundbreaking studies on law enforcement use of face recognition and government surveillance of immigrant communities. Emily’s individual scholarship and popular writing critiques carceral technology from an abolitionist perspective. Before coming to Georgetown, Emily worked for over a decade as a movement lawyer, supporting grassroots groups to organize, litigate, and legislate against the criminalization and surveillance of poor communities and communities of color. She was a 2021 Soros Justice Fellow.