Nabiha Syed

Nabiha Syed is the President of The Markup, a new investigative journalism startup that explores how powerful actors use technology to reshape society. Previously, she was the first newsroom lawyer at BuzzFeed where she oversaw litigation, including the “Steele Dossier” litigation and the First Amendment Fellow at The New York Times. She has worked on legal access issues at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; represented asylum-seekers in south Texas; counseled on whether to publish hacked materials and spoken about misinformation at the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit. Nabiha has been described as “one of the best emerging free speech lawyers” by Forbes magazine.