Reema Moussa is a J.D. Candidate at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. Her experience bridges technical, legal, business, and policy capacities, and she has worked across borders to evangelize equitable solutions to privacy and cybersecurity issues.

At Gould, she has served as a Student Attorney for the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, the Senior Notes and Submissions Editor for the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, and the President of a number of organizations, including the Gould Privacy and Cybersecurity Law Society (PCLS), Women of Color Collective, and Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association. In addition, she is a Research Assistant to Professor D. Daniel Sokol, and is independently conducting research on potential regulatory approaches to digital civil rights such as online privacy, security, and safety, as well as algorithmic bias.

Throughout her time in law school, she has sought out opportunities at the nexus of a broad variety of perspectives on privacy issues, interning at SentinelOne, Future of Privacy Forum, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, VMCA Advogados (during a study abroad program in São Paulo, Brazil, where she is currently based), and Goodwin Procter, where she plans to return post-graduation.

Reema is passionate about encouraging interdisciplinary, early-in-career engagement in emerging tech issues, and collaborates with young leaders in the tech policy community through her role as a Fellow with the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, where she is Vice President and the West Coast Regional Chair for the fourth cohort of the Fellowship Program. With the Foundry, she hosts and produces the Tech Policy Grind podcast. She is also the Founder and President of the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Privacy, Law, and Policy Affiliate. Since 2021, she has served on the Young Lawyers Advisory Panel of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section Privacy and Information Security (PRIS) Committee. She is an alumni of the ICANN Fellows program, and represented the United States at the ICANN76 Community Forum in Cancún, Mexico in March 2023.

A semester and summer spent in Geneva, Switzerland studying abroad and interning at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) sparked Reema’s interest in technology, cybersecurity, and privacy law at the international level. Upon her return to her home university, the University of California, Santa Barbara to complete her undergraduate degrees in Communication and Global & International Studies, she served as the Cybersecurity Awareness Coordinator for the Office of the Chief Information Officer on campus. While completing her Master’s in Technology Management at UCSB, she returned to ITU to serve as the Girls in Information Communication Technology (ICT) Coordinator for the 10th Anniversary of International Girls in ICT Celebration, under the leadership of current ITU Secretary General Doreen Bogdan-Martin.

In her free time, you can find Reema on a hike in the mountains, playing guitar, on a beach somewhere in the world, and capturing it all with her beloved film camera.