Ashkhen Kazaryan

Ashkhen Kazaryan is a fellow for the First Amendment at Freedom Forum. She specializes in digital free speech, artificial intelligence and the intersection of constitutional rights and technology. She is also a senior legal fellow at the Future of Free Speech at Vanderbilt University, where she leads initiatives to protect free expression and shape policies that uphold the First Amendment in the digital age. Previously, Kazaryan served as a senior fellow at Stand Together and Meta’s content regulation lead for North America and Latin America and policy lead on Section 230. Before that she served as the director of civil liberties at TechFreedom. While attending Yale Law School, Kazaryan served as an articles editor for the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, senior editor for the Yale Law & Policy Review, editor for the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, and co-chair of the Public Interest Fellowship. Her insights and expertise are regularly sought out by major news outlets including Axios, the BBC, CNBC, FOX DC, Newsy, Politico, The Information and the Washington Examiner.