Abi Hassen; Curriculum Vitae
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MA, Political Philosophy (in progress) | Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain |
Juris Doctor | New York University (NYU) School Of Law, New York, NY, USA |
Bachelor of Science | The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA Emphasis on Computer Science |
2015-Present | Partner, O’Neill and Hassen, LLP., Brooklyn, New York, USA |
2015-Present | Co-Founder, Black Movement-Law Project (bmlp.org) |
2011-15 | Mass Defense Coordinator, National Lawyers Guild, New York, NY, USA |
2010 | Digital Media Director, Give Up Tomorrow ( Film), New York, NY, USA |
2007-09 | Organizer (Political, Labor, Community), Yale Unions, New Haven, CT, USA |
2020 Ask the EFF/Meet the EFA, (Panelist) DEF CON 28, defcon.org
2020 Meet the EFA: A Discussion on Grassroots Organizing for Digital Privacy, Security, Free Expression, Creativity, and Access to Knowledge, (Panelist) Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 2020, hope.net
2020 Imaginary Agitators: Trump's Designation of Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization, (Moderator) National Lawyers Guild, nlg.org
2020 Policing and Privacy During the COVID19 Crisis, (Guest Lecturer) Library Freedom Institute, libraryfreedom.org
2019 From Pinkertons to Palantir: History and Political Economy of Police Surveillance, (Presenter) Hackers Next Door: An Infosec Conference, New York, NY, USA
2019 From Rapid Response to Building a Sustainable Movement, (Panelist) NAACP Legal Defense Fund Civil Rights Training Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
2019 First they came for Julian… The Attacks on Privacy and the Criminalization of Journalism & Whistleblowing, (Presenter) Peoples Forum, New York, NY, USA
2019 The Left Should Direct the Impeachment Effort (Article with Sam Lewis), truthout.org
2019 Snitching on Yourself: Social Media, Surveillance, and Control, (Guest Lecturer) Library Freedom Institute, libraryfreedom.org
2019 Introduction to Criminal Justice And Public Policy, (Guest Lecturer) Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies Department at Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, USA
2019 Mueller Investigation Will Set a Precedent — Make It a Good One, (Article) truthout.org
2019 Vulgar Complexity: How Can Complexity Science, Computation, and Evolution Inform Left Political Strategy?, (Organizer, Presenter) Left Forum, New York, NY, USA
2018 Non Profit Developers Conference (Session Host), Oakland, CA, USA
2018 Stop Dropping In: Digital Privacy and the Road to Community Empowerment, (Panelist) Left Forum, New York, NY, USA
2017 Organizing Grassroots Activist Legal Support, (Session Host) CampaignCon, Johannesburg, South Africa
2017 Rights To Freedom Of Peaceful Assembly And Of Association In The U.S., (Presenter) UN Human Rights Commission, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Legal Support Tech and Organizing for Uprisings, Mass Arrest, and Resistance, (Organizer, Panelist) Internet Freedom Festival, Valencia, Spain
2016 Tech & Activism: How to protect your privacy rights, New York, (Presenter) Turn to Tech, New York, NY, USA
2015 The Ferguson Streets to the High Courts: Protest, Policing, and Resistance, (Panelist) Left Forum, New York, NY, USA
2015 Protest Defense from Ferguson to Baltimore, (Faculty) National Bar Association Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2015 Encryption vs. Surveillance in the New Civil Rights Movement, (Article) truthout.org
2015 State of Entrapment: An Exploration of Manufactured Fear, (Panelist) New York, NY, USA
2014 Protecting Dissent, Continuing Legal Education, (Faculty) National Lawyer Guild Convention, Chicago, IL, USA
2014 NSA Surveillance and the Law, (Presenter) Drexel University School of Law, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2013 When Activism Goes Online: Anonymous, Hacktivism, and the Law, (Panelist) New York Law School Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York, NY, USA
2013 Animal Advocacy and Terrorism Law, (Presenter) New York University, New York, NY, USA
2013 Nothing to Hide, So Much to Lose: Understanding the NSA Leaks, (Presenter) Waging Nonviolence, New York, NY, USA
2013 The 5th Estate: Hacking, Leaking and Investigative Journalism, (Organizer, Presenter) Left Forum (available on CSPAN), New York, NY, USA
2013 Aaron Was a Criminal and So Are You, (Article) commondreams.org
Elected Leader | National Convention Delegate, Democratic Socialists of America (2019, 2021) |
Bernie Victory Coach | Bernie Sanders 2020 Presidential Campaign |
Member | Electronic Frontier Alliance (Grassroots branch of Electronic Frontier Foundation) |
Member | CIVICUS, global alliance of civil society organisations |
Member | Movement for Black Lives, Action Table (2015-2018) |
Member | Radical Connections Network (radicalconnections.net) |
Board Member | Mayfirst/PeopleLink (2013-2014) |
Founding Member | No Separate Justice: A Post-9/11 Domestic Human Rights Campaign |