Lucia Martinez – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Center at Boston College Law School

Program

Rappaport Law and Public Policy Fellow

Year

2023

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Law School
Boston University School of Law

Undergraduate School
Occidental College

Fellowship
Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in the Data Privacy and Security Division of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau

Biography
Lucia Martinez is a 1L at Boston University School of Law and a graduate of Occidental College, cum laude, where she studied Latino/a & Latin American Studies and Political Science. Before pursuing her law degree, Martinez worked for seven years at Free Press, a Washington, D.C.-based media and tech policy and advocacy organization, where she advocated for public interest policies at Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and with technology companies. Martinez plans to pursue a public policy career at the intersection of technology law and civil rights and is passionate about digital civil rights, data privacy protections, and working to mitigate the harm caused by algorithmic bias and surveillance technology. This summer, Martinez will intern at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in the Data Privacy and Security Division of the Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau.