Michelle Bae is our inaugural Elise Berkower Memorial Fellow. Michelle will be focusing on consumer and commercial privacy issues, from technology-specific areas such as advertising practices, drones, wearables, connected cars, and student privacy, to general data management and privacy areas related to ethics, de-identification, algorithms, and the Internet of Things. Focusing on the advancement of responsible data practices, she will be developing industry best practices and standards and filing comments on proposed regulatory actions.
During law school, Michelle worked as a data protection and privacy law intern at Ladas & Parry LLP and a legal intern for the Honorable Judge Timothy S. Driscoll at the Nassau County Commercial Division and the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Prior to law school, Michelle worked in the corporate governance team at Citigroup where she managed board agenda materials with respect to internal data control and developed an online platform.
Michelle earned her J.D. from University of Illinois College of Law and her B.A. in Law from Yonsei University.