Anne Toomey McKenna (she/her) is a licensed attorney, researcher, and Law Professor working for over two decades at the interdisciplinary intersection of technology, privacy, and law. Professor McKenna is currently an Affiliated Faculty with Penn State University’s Institute for Computational & Data Sciences and was formerly Penn State Dickinson Law’s Distinguished Scholar of Cyber Law & Policy before moving to Richmond for family. Professor McKenna sits on the Advisory Board and serves as Support Chair of the AI Policy Committee for the world’s largest technical professional organization, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Co-Chairs IEEE’s Privacy, Equity, and Justice in AI Subcommittee.
As part of her work educating, researching, writing, and advising about cutting edge legal and societal issues surrounding privacy, data, technology (including machine learning and artificial intelligence), and surveillance, Professor McKenna collaborates regularly with agency, business, institution, and policy leaders at the highest levels. Professor McKenna brings extensive experiential depth and understanding to her work in these interdisciplinary subjects. That depth and understanding flows from her extensive research, publications, and legal teaching experience combined with her two-plus decades of work as a trial attorney representing clients and handling complex civil litigation in federal and state courts in Maryland and Washington, D.C. That experience includes handling and advising about matters that involve:
