About the IAPP

Niharika Vattikonda is the research assistant for the health and wellness team at the Future of Privacy Forum. Her current work focuses on genetic data privacy and reproductive health data privacy post-Dobbs. Through the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program, Vattikonda studied business administration and economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the first graduate from Duke University's Digital Intelligence Certificate program. As a student, she co-wrote the Duke Chronicle's award-winning "On Tech" column and led research at the Duke Cyber Policy and Gender Violence Initiative at the Sanford School of Public Policy. Vattikonda is currently based in Washington, D.C. and will attend Harvard Law School through the Junior Deferral Program.