Lydia X. Z. Brown

policy counsel – Privacy & Data Project, Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

Lydia X. Z. Brown is a Policy Counsel with CDT’s Privacy and Data Project, focused on disability rights and algorithmic fairness and justice.

Outside of their work at CDT, Lydia is an adjunct lecturer in disability studies at Georgetown University’s Department of English, and the founding director of the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment. They serve on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights, and co-chair the Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice’s Disability Rights and Elder Affairs Committee. They are also lead editor of All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, a groundbreaking anthology on autism and race published by the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network.

Episode 90: How Public Health Monitoring During the Pandemic Can Affect Disability and Minority Populations