Summary
Maggie Oates is a privacy-focused policy consultant with a decade of experience bridging usable privacy research and practical consumer advocacy at Consumer Reports. A PhD drop-out from Carnegie Mellon's usable privacy program, she combines rigorous research, hands-on technical familiarity from embedded systems and robotics, and arts-based methods to make privacy and safety work for real people. Her work spans leading privacy research, policy translation, and educating others, with a particular interest in how privacy intersects with technology policy, sex, and labor. Based in Pittsburgh, she brings a curious, human-centered approach and a knack for turning Internet standards history into actionable insight for regulators and product teams.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
West Lafayette High School
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Indiana University
English, Arabic, Spanish, French, American Sign Language