Oakland Privacy is pleased to annouce that Saoirse Grace has been selected as the 2024-2025 Privacy Rights Fellow. The fellowship is a part-time advocacy and organizing position generously funded by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.
Here is a bit about Saoirse: Please join us in welcoming her to Oakland Privacy!
Saoirse Grace is a transsexual Oakland-based researcher who applies postmodern and postcolonial theory to questions of gender, surveillance, itinerancy, homelessness, privacy, and art. She graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2016 and has written about critical legal theory, critical race theory, immigration law reform, the GDPR, and the application of Constitutional law to cutting-edge technology and its uses by state actors and private enterprise. She has extensive experience with the Freedom of Information Act, the California Public Records Act, and has published an exhaustive analysis of the Third Amendment’s applicability to Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
Saoirse has been involved in progressive organizing in the Bay Area since she moved here in 2013. She is an excellent bicycle mechanic, an award-winning experimental filmmaker, the former voice of Berkeley Bowl on X, and an avid Formula 1 fan (the cars, not the races).