Amina Nawaz Fazlullah

Amina Fazlullah is the Head of Tech Advocacy Policy in Common Sense Media's D.C. office. She works on various issues, including expanding safe, affordable access to technology, digital literacy, online privacy, platform responsibility, and artificial intelligence. She has worked closely with policymakers and academics to explore changes to Section 230, and updates to telecommunications and consumer protection laws to protect children as they use technology. During her time with Common Sense Media, she helped draft and introduce legislation on AI safety, to curb the use of dark patterns, update children's online privacy, and address social media harms. She helped pass state platform accountability and AI safety laws, state laws to support broadband affordability, secure federal funding for longitudinal research on the impact of media and technology on children, expand federal funding for broadband access, and secure federal funding for digital literacy.  Before joining Common Sense Media, Amina was a tech policy fellow at Mozilla, where she worked to promote policies to expand robust, affordable broadband access and digital safety training in underserved communities worldwide. She has testified before the U.S. House and Senate committees on technology issues impacting vulnerable consumers, kids, and families. She has been featured by the press and at conferences on broadband competition, artificial intelligence, Section 230, the digital divide, and dark patterns. She has published research reports about AI and online safety, the digital divide, and ensuring digital equity. She is a member of the FCC’s Consumer Protection and Accessibility Advisory Committee and served as a founding board member of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.