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Maira works on EFF's International Team monitoring and advocating around emerging tech policy around the world with a focus on intellectual property and innovation issues. She earned her BA at UC Santa Cruz in Politics and Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies. At UCSC, she was a Fellow and Coordinator for the Global Information Internship Program (GIIP: giip.org), a program that trains undergraduate students to become enterprising tech-literate activists for local to global social justice issues. In 2008, Maira lived and worked in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a legal researcher and tech intern with Sisters in Islam, a Muslim women's rights organization. Prior to joining EFF, she was a paralegal and legal researcher at a law firm in Los Angeles that was specialized in fighting redevelopment, eminent domain, and unfair government practices.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 1, 2013 Congress Must Not Fast Track TPP to Ratification
the TPP has been negotiated in secret and includes a wide range of provisions that would negatively impact the Internet and our digital rights. Corporate advisors have had easy access to see and comment and draft text while Congress and the public have had little to no ability to influence its provisions.
US Trade Rep Michael Froman admitted this week that he's recently been spending most of his time lobbying this