Julie Yihong Mao is the Deputy Director at Just Futures Law where her work focuses on the intersection of privacy, policing and technology. She has more than 15 years of experience in the immigrant rights, police accountability, and labor rights movement. She was a senior attorney at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and attorney at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice. She has represented immigrants in civil rights litigation against law enforcement abuse and labor exploitation and provided deportation defense to hundreds of community members. Julie is a graduate of NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and a student of the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic. She is a former Equal Justice Works fellow.