Sarah Lamdan is Deputy Director at the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Before taking this new role, she was a professor at CUNY School of Law, specializing in administrative law, data privacy, open government law, and other information law topics. She also has a master's degree in library science and legal information management and a law certificate in environmental law. Her research focuses on information law and policy.
When she's not teaching, she works on data justice projects across the spectrum from open government to personal privacy. She researches and writes about information access, surveillance & privacy, and informational capitalism. She's writing a book about data analytics companies called Data Cartels (Stanford University Press).
Sarah's a SPARC Senior Fellow, a fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law, and a member of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative. She's an IOI council member and she also works with immigration groups on government surveillance issues. Lamdan's book, Environmental Information: Research, Access & Environmental Decisionmaking (Environmental Law Institute) is a resource for journalists, scientists, and researchers who rely on government science.
Sarah also teaches legal research and writing and is pursuing a Masters Degree in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. In her spare time, she writes songs about her favorite transparency laws. You can email her at slamdan@ala.org or find her on social media at sarahlamdan.bsky.social.
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