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Student Voices: From Content Moderation to Social Impact–My Path to Harvard Law School - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School

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I’m from the Bronx, New York, a community where two in every five children grow up in poverty. Unlike most of my classmates, my legal education began as a child: First, in housing court, where my family was nearly evicted from our apartment because of my aunt’s criminal background. And later, as a teenager, when I was routinely stopped by NYPD for “looking suspicious.” The internet was a safe space when reality sometimes wasn’t. I got my first computer through a public school program that gave away older PC units, and from that point on, I was able to engage with communities that felt thousands of miles away from the Bronx through platforms like Google, Facebook, and YouTube. After college, I found myself working in tech. First, as a cybersecurity consultant for the federal government, helping to secure web apps at the IRS and air gapping networks at nuclear power plants. Then, as an online trust & safety practitioner at some of the platforms I grew up on. At Facebook, I was an analyst

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