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Alissa Starzak: Private Gatekeepers to the Internet's Public Square

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Please join us for a conversation with Ms. Alissa Starzak, Head of Public Policy for Cloudflare. Lunch will be served.*

*This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Suite 470
Alissa Starzak

Biography

Alissa Starzak is responsible for public policy at Cloudflare, a web security and optimization company. 

Prior to joining Cloudflare, Alissa worked for 12 years for the U.S government in a variety of national security positions, including serving as General Counsel of the U.S. Army, Deputy General Counsel (Legislation) at the Department of Defense, counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and assistant general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency.  She also worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., and clerked for The Honorable E. Grady Jolly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

She graduated from Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.