Pratika Katiyar is a research assistant with the Berkman Klein communications team and a leading free expression activist. She is an honors student at Northeastern University majoring in Communication Studies and Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. In the past, she held a Privacy Program Manager role at Amazon.
Pratika is the youngest member of the Board of Directors of the Student Press Law Center, a national legal services nonprofit that protects and defends students' First Amendment rights. Over the past few years, she testified for New Voices legislation and spearheaded a nationwide campaign promoting First Amendment protections for student journalists. She has bylines and features in Teen Vogue, CNN, NBC, and more. She has been invited to speak for PEN America, Georgetown Law School, and the United Nations, among others.