lana ramjit, phd

I’m a digital privacy and computer security expert specializing in interpersonal violence. Currently, I’m a Policy Specialist at Google, working on global policies governing non-consensual intimate images (NCII), child safety and generative AI. I also facilitate a graduate student clinic at UC Berkeley that provides free cybersecurity services to non-profits and civil society organizations via the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

I earned my PhD and BA in Computer Science at UCLA and Columbia University respectively. I completed a postdoc at Cornell Tech where I directed the Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA), a service providing free digital security consultations for survivors of domestic violence in New York City.

I was a Computing Innovations Postdoctoral Fellow, a Public Interest Technology Policy Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a 2024 Aspen Ideas Fellow.

My last name is pronounced phonetically (ram like the animal, jit as in jitter), with no specific emphasis on either syllable, as it usually is within the Indo-Caribbean diaspora (🇹🇹).

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advocacy

I believe that the best policy emerges at the intersection of research, lived experience, and strategic advocacy. Many of my policy initiatives have been enshrined in federal or state law or adopted by tech platforms. I’ve been consulted for my expertise by Forbes, NPR, Al Jazeera, the NYTimes, the White House Task Force on Online Abuse, and the UN.

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writing

highlights from projects and papers I’ve worked on:

Leading and Mentoring in Research Supporting At Risk Users.
Brief from CRA/CCCs At-Risk Users Workshop. pdf

Trauma-Informed Organizational Coordination in Clinical Computer Security
Lana Ramjit, Nicola Dell, Dana Cuomo. ACM CSCW 2025. pdf
^{Received an Impact Recognition designation.}

Digital Technologies and Human Trafficking: Combating Coercive Control and Navigating Digital Autonomy 
Sophie Stephenson, Lana Ramjit, Thomas Ristenpart, Nicki Dell. SIGCHI 2025. pdf

Navigating Traumatic Stress Reactions in Computer Security.
Lana Ramjit, Natalie Dolci, Francesca Rossi, Ryan Garcia, Thomas Ristenpart, Dana Cuomo. USENIX Security 2024. pdf 

Data Stewardship in Clinical Computer Security
Emily Tseng, Rosanna Bellini, Yeuk Yu Lee, Lana Ramjit, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell. ACM CSCW 2024. pdf

How to Start a Technology Abuse Clinic
Lana Ramjit, Dana Cuomo, Nicola Dell, and Thomas Ristenpart.
European Conference on Domestic Violence, 2023. pdf | site

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