Brittan Heller
Counsel, Global Business and Human Rights
Foley Hoag LLP
Brittan Heller works at the intersection of technology, human rights, and the law. As counsel in Foley Hoag LLP’s corporate social responsibility practice, Heller advises companies, investors, NGOs, and governments on integrating public safety and human rights. Heller was an inaugural AI and Technology Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying content moderation and security risks in VR/AR/XR and emergent media. Heller previously founded ADL’s Center for Technology and Society. Her key projects included creating AI to study hate speech and analyzing disinformation that targeted minority communities. Additionally, Heller prosecuted grave human rights violations at the U.S. Department of Justice and the International Criminal Court and initiated landmark anti-cyber harassment litigation. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.
