About Christine

Christine Bannan is policy counsel at New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute inWashington, DC. where she works on platform accountability and privacy issues. She advocates for policies at the federal and state level to promote an Internet that is open and free, working to ensure that every community has equitable access to digital technology and its benefits.

Before her work at the Open Technology Institute, she was consumer protection counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where she advocated for stronger privacy regulations before the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Election Commission, and other government agencies. Her prior work experiences include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. Copyright Office, and the Wikimedia Foundation. She is an Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellow and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). Bannan earned her J.D. from Notre Dame Law School and B.A. in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross.