Maya Bernstein:  

Life I moved to Albuquerque in the middle of 9th grade at East View Junior High, which prevented me from attending White Plains High School with all of my friends. But I left it in just in case someone wants to get in touch. In Albuquerque, I first went to Manzano High to finish out that year, and then we moved, so I graduated from Eldorado High School. I attended the Eldorado 20th reunion and had a great time connecting with some old friends. Here's what I've been doing: After undergrad at Michigan and grad school at MIT, I moved to DC and worked for 9 years as a policy analyst in the Information Policy and Technology Branch of the Office of Management and Budget (a White House agency). I got to work on a lot of fun emerging technology policy issues, and met the President a few times, but my area of expertise, privacy policy, was ignored for quite a while. Things have changed, and it turns out to be useful and interesting now that privacy is in the paper pretty much every day. In 1995, I decided to attend law school in the evening program at American University, to which the universal response of my friends and family was, "it's about time." After graduation in '99, I clerked for a year on the DC Court of Appeals, and then worked as an attorney in the electronic commerce practice at the DC office of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, a major NY corporate law firm. They paid me the going rate, a preposterous sum, which allowed me to buy a beautiful condo near the National Zoo, wher eI still live. Unfortunately, I joined the firm right when the economy was tanking and by the time 9/11 happened,...Expand for more