Jenna Ruddock

Jenna supports Free Press’ policy, legal and communications work across issue areas, with a focus on technology, surveillance, digital civil rights and dissent. Jenna joined Free Press as a policy counsel. Before that, she was a fellow with the critical infrastructure lab at the University of Amsterdam; a research fellow with the Technology & Social Change Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy; and a senior researcher with the Tech, Law & Security Program at the American University Washington College of Law. Her academic work focuses on the criminalization of dissent, surveillance and human rights. She is also a documentary photographer and producer with a background in community media and factual streaming. Jenna’s work has appeared in The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, Tech Policy Press, American University Law Review, Maryland Journal of International Law, the Progressive Magazine and Eaten by the Internet (2023). Her work has been cited in both the popular and academic press and in reporting to Congress. Jenna is a graduate of the American University Washington College of Law and Mount Holyoke College. Most notably, she is the world’s #1 fan of her dog.