Bio
Arianna Demas is a William J. Brennan Fellow with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. She is a graduate of Dickinson College and the University of Michigan Law School where she was an Executive Editor of the Michigan Law Review, co-president of the Reproductive Rights & Justice organization, and a teaching assistant for the first-year legal research and writing class. Arianna spent her summers working with the Knight First Amendment Institute and as a judicial intern for the Hon. Sandra L. Townes of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to law school, she worked as a legal assistant with the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project.
Featured work
![A giant inflatable rat stands in front of a non-union worksite where union workers protested during a May Day rally](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/01/Scabby-the-Rat-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jan 22, 2021
The First Amendment Protects Scabby, the 12-Foot Inflatable Rat, Too
![Blockchain technology concept with diagram of chain and encrypted blocks over someone typing on laptop in background](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/12/FBI-encryption-header-image-400x266.jpg)
Dec 22, 2020
The FBI is Secretly Breaking Into Encrypted Devices. We’re Suing.
![Network routers of an ISP.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/05/WEB20-ISP-Network-Routers-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
May 29, 2020
Maine’s ISP Privacy Law Does Not Violate the First Amendment, Much as ISPs Would Like for It To
![Striking teaching assistants protest on the campus of Columbia University in New York.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/01/Student-Workers-Blog-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jan 30, 2020
The Government Is Trying to Strip Student Workers of the Ability to Unionize