Brittan Heller

Brittan Heller is a human rights lawyer whose specialty is at the intersection of technology, human rights, and the law. She is a lecturer at Stanford University’s International Relations Program and a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School.

Heller's expertise includes privacy, AI ethics, content moderation, freedom of expression and business and human rights. She serves on the steering committee for the World Economic Forum's Metaverse Governance initiative and conducting groundbreaking research on content moderation in extended reality (XR) as an inaugural AI and Tech Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights. She has also facilitated the Christchurch Call and served on the Steering Committee of the High-Level Transatlantic Working Group on Disinformation, Hate Speech, and AI. 

Heller frequently lectures about emerging technology in venues such as Davos, SXSW, the Augmented World Expo, the NetSafe Conference, and the Atlantic Live. She publishes on technology and society in outlets like the New York Times, The Hill, and The Information. Her consulting clients include the Council of Europe, the United Nations, world governments, and major technology companies. Heller holds positions as a visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, a Senior Non-Residential Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, and an affiliate at the Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.