Hannah Quay-de la Vallee is a Senior Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology. She brings her technical expertise to bear across CDT’s projects, with particular focus on advocating for robust encryption and on the Student Privacy project, dedicated to ensuring students are able to maintain the privacy of their data while still reaping the benefits of advances in educational technology. Hannah received her PhD in computer science from Brown University in 2017. For her dissertation, she designed and built tools that help users better manage privacy on their mobile devices.