Reema Moussa is an Associate Attorney at Goodwin Procter, based in the New York City office. Her experience bridges technical, legal, business, and policy capacities, and she has worked across borders to navigate emerging issues in cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, trust and safety, intellectual property, and internet governance.

She is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. At Gould, she 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 was a Research Assistant to Professor D. Daniel Sokol, and independently conducted 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, and the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.

Reema is passionate about encouraging interdisciplinary, early-in-career engagement in emerging tech issues, and collaborates with young leaders in the tech policy community. She served 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, and hosted and produced 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, and the ICANN80 Policy Forum in Kigali, Rwanda.

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.