Email Heather Whitney

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Heather Whitney is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School where she heads up Submissions for the Journal of Law and Technology.

Her fellowship will focus on leveraging the confluence of online social platforms, recent developments in genomic technologies, and the rise of citizen science and the quantified self movement in order to improve health and health research (both non-traditional citizen-driven research, as seen on platforms like PatientsLikeMe, and traditional “Big Pharma” research and clinical trials).

Heather received her B.A., summa cum laude, from UCLA in Philosophy, where she spent much of her time thinking about the intersection of ethics and emerging technologies. Prior to law school, she worked on Google’s Global Ethics and Compliance team and, for a time, hosted weekly Battlestar Galactica viewings. During law school, she’s had brief stints at the Federal Trade Commission, Facebook, and Jenner & Block’s Washington D.C. office.