Mayu Tobin-Miyaji

Mayu Tobin-Miyaji is an EPIC Law Fellow focusing on AI and Human Rights. Her work spans advocating to limit unfair and harmful commercial AI practices, scrutinize how automated decisionmaking systems harm the wellbeing of everyday people, and increase accountability for AI-enabled government surveillance that harm civil rights and democratic values. She also co-leads EPIC’s work on worker privacy with Abigail Kunkler. Mayu’s recent work at EPIC includes authoring the Assessing the Assessments Report, testifying on state-level surveillance pricing bills, and co-authoring the AI section for the Beyond HIPAA report.

Mayu is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law, where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law and Ethics. She served as co-president of Fordham Information Law Society, and a member of the Fordham OUTLaws board, the Fordham Moot Court board, and Fordham Law Review. While at law school, she interned at the Federal Trade Commission and Knight First Amendment Institute, and externed with the New York Civil Liberties Union on the Voting Rights Project. She holds a B.A. from Rice University in Computer Science and Cognitive Sciences and worked as a software engineer before law school.

Areas of expertise: AI and human rights, surveillance pricing, and worker privacy.

Pronouns: she/her

Contact: [Mailbox], 202.483.1140