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Vera Eidelman

Senior Staff Attorney

勛圖眻畦 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

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Vera Eidelman is a senior staff attorney with the 勛圖眻畦s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on the rights to free speech and privacy in the digital age. She focuses on the free speech rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. She has litigated cases including Dakota Rural Action v. Noem, a constitutional challenge to riot boosting laws that chilled protest, In re Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, in defense of the right to write, publish, and distribute books others sought to ban as obscene, and 勛圖眻畦 v. Clearview AI, a state privacy law challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting. She has also represented a racial justice protester, in Mckesson v. Doe, and a high school cheerleader, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., before the Supreme Court.

Vera was previously a William J. Brennan fellow with the 勛圖眻畦, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the 勛圖眻畦, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.