Nana-Kwabena Abrefah

As a student advocate at the Federal Legislation Clinic, he testified before the Maryland Senate after researching state data flows to federal immigration enforcement. He mooted advocates for legislative testimony, researched privacy legislation, and developed a client's bill language as well. As part of a team, he wrote and presented a legislative proposal to reduce harms of predictive policing technologies. He also spent a summer at the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law, where he researched and wrote memos on algorithmic fairness, among other tech policy issues, and supported programming to educate congressional staffers on tech-related issues.

He also gained experience as a legal intern at Ayuda, an organization that provides immigration legal assistance in Northern Virginia. There, he drafted petitions and motions for immigrant victims of trafficking and crime, asylees, and others. Additionally, he managed intakes and cases, directly served clients, and conducted supporting legal and related research.