Bio
Crystal Grant was a Technology Fellow with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Dr. Grant is a graduate of Emory University’s Laney Graduate School where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, president of Laney’s Graduate Student Council, and a teaching assistant for an introductory computer programming course. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Emory, Dr. Grant served as a Mirzayan Graduate Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences. She next served as a Legislative Fellow in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s office through the TechCongress Congressional Innovation Scholars program. Dr. Grant earned her undergraduate degree in biological sciences at Cornell University.
Featured work
![A group of blood test tubes.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/06/donate-blood-blog-400x266.jpg)
Jun 13, 2023
Donated Blood or an Organ? Police Shouldn’t Have Easy Access to Your DNA
![Close-up of tweezers loading test tubes with sampled DNA.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/05/dna-blog-400x266.jpg)
May 24, 2023
It’s Time for Congress to Update Our Genetic Nondiscrimination Law
![Newborn blood samples being prepared for analysis.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/04/blood-samples-prepared-for-analysis-b-400x266.jpg)
Apr 19, 2023
Widespread Newborn DNA Sequencing Will Worsen Risks to Genetic Privacy
![A Doctor points to AI biomedical algorithm screen.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/10/AI_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Oct 3, 2022
Algorithms Are Making Decisions About Health Care, Which May Only Worsen Medical Racism
![A newborn heel prick being performed.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/07/HeelPrick_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Jul 26, 2022
Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health
![Robot solving problems](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/09/Blog-AI-400x266.jpg)
Sep 17, 2021
Public Trust in Artificial Intelligence Starts With Institutional Reform