Kendra Albert

Kendra Albert is a partner at Albert Sellars LLP, a public interest technology and media law firm. (But you knew that already, because you’re on our website!) Prior to founding Albert Sellars, they spent seven years practicing and teaching students to practice technology law at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School. Kendra also served as the director of the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment from 2019 to 2024. They hold a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.H.A. in Theater and History from Carnegie Mellon University.

Outside of their law practice, Kendra writes and speaks on a broad range of issues related to gender, technology, and power. Their writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Logic Magazine, and Tech Policy Press, as well as in academic venues such as FAccT, NeurIPS, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Harvard Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. Kendra has also spoken at numerous conferences and events, including Blackhat (twice!), USENIX Enigma, the ALA Annual Conference, GDC, Rightscon, and ICLR. They serve on the program committee for USENIX Security.

In the past, Kendra was on the board of the ACLU of Massachusetts and Double Union, a feminist hackerspace in San Francisco. In 2024, Kendra co-hosted ComstockCon, a conference on the Comstock Act and attacks on bodily autonomy. They currently serve on the board of directors of the Tor Project, and as a guardrails advisor to the De|Center.

Outside of their work, Kendra cooks, plays a lot of video games, worships at the altar of Gritty, and power lifts.

Licensed in California and Massachusetts, admission in Pennsylvania pending.

Email: kendra@albertsellars.law

Bluesky: @k endraserra.bsky.social

Mastodon: @kendraserra@dair.community

Kendra’s Personal Blog: https://kendraalbert.com/blog

Andrew Sellars

Andrew (Andy) Sellars is a partner at Albert Sellars LLP, a public interest technology and media law firm. For nine years he taught at Boston University School of Law, most recently as a Clinical Associate Professor and the founding Executive Director of the BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic, a legal service created in partnership between MIT and BU Law to provide legal assistance to students at both schools engaged in innovative and provocative work in technology. Prior to this, he was the Corydon B. Dunham First Amendment Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he worked in the Cyberlaw Clinic. He was also the Assistant Director of the Digital Media Law Project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He holds at J.D. with High Honors at the George Washington University Law School and B.S. in Music summa cum laude from Northeastern University. Before law school Andy worked in the music industry, including for Great Northeast Productions (producers of music festivals for the band Phish and others) and as a part of the road crew for the band moe.

Andy works on various issues at the intersection of law and technology, through scholarship, representation, and policy advocacy. His scholarship on web scraping has been cited in multiple judicial opinions, including in X Corp. v. Center for Countering Digital Hate (N.D. Cal. 2024) (claims against an advocacy organization for analysis on a social media platform). He has represented hundreds clients as they have conducted pathbreaking work in technology accountability, including analysis into cybersecurity of medical devices and voting systems, discrimination in facial analysis technology, and government use of social media. His scholarship has appeared in ACM CS Law, STAST, and the B.U. Journal of Science & Technology Law. He has also served on the Task Team on Privacy Preserving Techniques for the United Nations Global Working Group on Big Data.

Outside of work, Andy is an avid supporter of all things Boston, from music to sports to dining. He loves traveling to new cities and going straight to the nearest record store for the strangest thing he can find.

Licensed in Massachusetts and New York.

Email: andy@albertsellars.law

Bluesky: @sellars.bsky.social