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 our team

For questions or more information about the Policing Project’s AI Policy Hub, please contact us at tech@policingproject.org.


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Max Isaacs
Director of Technology Law & Policy
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Max is the Director of Technology Law & Policy at the Policing Project. His work focuses on emerging policing technologies and their implications for civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice. Among other work, Max staffed Axon's independent AI Ethics Board from 2020 to 2022, worked on audits of Ring's Neighbors platform and Baltimore's aerial surveillance program, and drafted policy guides and/or model legislation on a range of topics including license plate readers, fusion centers, and private-public surveillance. His current work includes an evaluation of the use of robots in law enforcement and the development of a governance framework for the use of AI-enabled technologies in policing, prosecution, and prevention.


Quincy Blair
Tech/Advocacy Counsel
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Quincy is the Tech/Advocacy Counsel at the Policing Project, where she focuses on the legal and civil rights implications of emerging policing technologies, particularly in relation to civil liberties and racial justice. Her work includes researching automated traffic enforcement and novel DNA practices, assisting in drafting policy guides on Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs), and conducting legislative tracking on several issues such as pretextual traffic stops and use of force.

Quincy is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she has volunteered with the Re-Entry Advocacy Project and the National Lawyers Guild, providing support to previously and currently incarcerated individuals. During law school, Quincy interned with the Youth Law Center, the Haywood Burns Institute, the Legal Aid Society, and No Peace Without Justice in Brussels, Belgium.

Prior to law school, Quincy worked as a canvasser advocating on behalf of nonprofit organizations during the 2018 presidential midterm election.


Katie Kinsey
Katie Kinsey
Chief of Staff/Tech Policy Counsel
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Katie Kinsey is Chief of Staff and Tech Policy Counsel at the Policing Project at NYU School of Law. Her work focuses on emerging policing technologies and their impact on civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice. Katie frequently testifies before state and local legislatures to advocate for democratic accountability in the acquisition and use of AI-powered policing technologies. Her work on policing technology governance has appeared in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and news media including Slate and Bloomberg Law.

Prior to joining the Policing Project, Katie was a litigation associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and clerked for the Honorable Mark P. Lane of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Katie began her career as a special education teacher in the New York City public school system. She received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law; an M.S. in Special Education from CUNY Brooklyn College; and a B.A. from Brown University.


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Jenna Wong
AI and Public Safety Research Associate
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Jenna is engaged in ongoing projects on how to implement AI safely and ethically in law enforcement practices. Her projects include tracking legislative progress on the latest AI bills and formulating substantive guardrails for regulatory frameworks on how to best use technology that meets the interests of police officers, community members, and other stakeholders. Jenna first interned at the Policing Project in 2022 to assist the policing technology and litigation teams. This exposure to the complicated yet exciting world of technology ethics, law, and policy inspired Jenna to pursue a career in responsible AI and tech regulation. She has developed studies to measure the moral awareness of technologists and attended Congressional meetings in DC to advocate for academic experts to help inform the government’s response to emerging technologies. Jenna aims to promote AI governance, establish privacy rights, and mitigate algorithmic bias in law enforcement and similar industries.


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Jesse Woo
AI/Tech Policy Counsel
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Jesse Woo is an AI/Tech Policy Counsel at the Policing Project's Tech Team. He is an attorney and machine learning engineer with a decade of experience working at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. He is also an expert on the governance and use of data in the policing and national security sectors, and at working across disciplines to understand complex socio-technical systems like AI. Jesse has served as a Tech Policy Fellow in the Office of Senator Ron Wyden, a Fulbright scholar on cross-border data and AI issues at Kyoto University in Japan, and a Research Associate on Privacy and Cybersecurity at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has written about data privacy, robotics and drones in the context of smart cities and published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and Connecticut Law Review. He has also been quoted on tech law issues by popular publications such as the Verge and Motherboard.