Current NYU Cyber Scholars
2025-2026 Cyber Scholars
Alex Bauman is a 1L and Cybersecurity Service Scholar. Alex graduated from Wake Forest University 2021, where he studied political science. From that time through mid-2025, Alex worked in strategic consulting for TSD Communications, based in Washington, DC. His work there included supporting non-profit and for-profit clients in a range of areas, including tech policy and global development. After graduation from NYU Law, Alex is interested in pursuing a career in cybersecurity and AI policy.
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Sibusisiwe Dlangalala (she/her) is a 3L at NYU School of Law, originally from South Africa and raised in North Carolina. She is passionate about cybersecurity, privacy law, and the evolving legal frameworks surrounding emerging technologies. Before law school, she worked at Meta, where she collaborated with law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges to resolve legal requests, an experience that sparked her interest in privacy law. She holds a degree in Political Science and Peace, War, and Defense from UNC-Chapel Hill.
At NYU, Sibu is a Cyber Scholar, the Managing Editor of Operations for the Annual Survey of American Law, and a member of the Trial Advocacy Society. She has also served as a research assistant for Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Jason Schultz, supporting work on digital privacy, democratic governance, and civil procedure. She spent her 1L summer interning with the U.S. Department of Justice and her 2L summer at the Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Competition. She is also an International Data Law Fellow with the International Data Law Association. After graduation, Sibu will clerk for the Honorable Brandy McMillion of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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Sonali Durham is from Iowa City, Iowa. She is interested in consumer protection, financial regulation, and data privacy. Before law school, she worked at the civil rights law firm Relman Colfax and at The New Yorker. At NYU Law, in addition to being a Cyber Scholar, she has been a research assistant to Professor Barry Friedman, a teaching assistant to Professor Sam Issacharoff, president of Rights over Tech and of the Unemployment Action Center, a founder of NYU’s CLASS (Consumer Law Advocates, Scholars, and Students) chapter, an Articles editor for the NYU Law Review, and an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow. She spent her 1L summer at the New York Attorney General’s Antitrust Bureau and her 2L summer at the plaintiffs’ firm Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight.
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Andrew Friedman is a 2L at NYU School of Law from Los Angeles, California. He’s interested in consumer protections, health law, and cybersecurity. Before law school, he worked on U.S. Senate campaigns and helped lead public health efforts to reduce healthcare financial harms and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, improve vaccine access using data and technology. In addition to being a Cyber Scholar, Andrew is a Staff Editor on the NYU Law Review and serves as Co-President of the Health Law & Policy Society, as well as Founder and Co-President of the Innovations in Practice Association, a student organization exploring how emerging technologies, especially AI-powered tools, are shaping legal practice. Andrew also is a research assistant for Professors Florencia Marotta-Wurgler and Helen Hershkoff. He spent his 1L summer in the Competition Unit of the Healthcare Rights and Access Section of the California Attorney General’s Office. He will be spending his 2L summer at Ropes & Gray.
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Abby Happ is a 2L at NYU School of Law, originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She studied Chemical Engineering as an undergraduate and spent three years before law school in technology consulting and cybersecurity risk, focusing on system vulnerabilities, regulatory responses, data protection, and governance. At NYU, her interests center on how legal frameworks adapt to emerging technologies and evolving cyber threats, and their implications for security, privacy, and civil liberties. She is a Student Attorney in the Technology Law and Policy Clinic (Fall 2025) and has served as a Research Assistant to Professor Jason Schultz on projects involving digital privacy, copyright, and AI. She is also a Staff Editor for the NYU Law Review and serves on the boards of the Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law Society and the Social Enterprise & Startup Law Group. She spent her 1L summer working in Patent Litigation at Kirkland & Ellis, where she will return for her 2L summer.
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Ashley Hong is a 2L and Cybersecurity Service Scholar from Los Angeles and Seoul. Prior to law school, she studied computer science and international relations at Brown University and worked in venture capital at Insight Partners analyzing growth-stage software startups. At NYU, Ashley is a 2L Staff Editor on the Moot Court Board and Public Interest Co-Chair of APALSA. She previously served as a Research Assistant for Professor Sunoo Park, focusing on the misuse of LLMs in legal filings, European government efforts to backdoor encryption, and digital searches and seizures. Last summer, she worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission addressing market abuse and cyber issues. She is currently a criminal prosecution extern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, working on matters involving national security and cybercrime.
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Sean Kesluk is a 3L at NYU Law School interested in the intersection of private cybersecurity innovation and public security policy – particularly the increasing importance of technology firms in protecting critical infrastructure from emerging threats and advancing national security interests. Before law school, Sean was a private equity analyst and an officer in the United States Navy. He spent his 1L summer in Singapore with the frontier markets team at Cerberus Capital Management and his 2L summer at Cooley LLP in New York.
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Micah Musser is a current 3L. Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he attended college at Georgetown University and spent three and a half years working in AI and cybersecurity policy at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology in Washington, DC. In addition to being a Cyber Scholar, Micah is an Articles Editor on the N.Y.U. Law Review, a Furman Academic Scholar, and a Vanderbilt Scholar. He was a member of the Technology Law and Policy Clinic in Fall 2024, where he co-wrote an amicus brief in a defamation case against OpenAI, and he spent his 2L summer at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. His primary interests are in civil litigation, private law, and national security law, with an emphasis on how each body of law responds to changes in technology.
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Esha Sheth is a 2L at NYU School of Law originally from Scottsdale, Arizona. She is interested in data privacy, cybercrime, and the regulation of emerging technologies. Before law school, she worked as an analyst at a healthcare consulting company. She holds a degree in Human Development from Cornell University. At NYU, in addition to being a Cyber Scholar, she is a member of the Technology Law and Policy Clinic. She spent her 1L summer at the Office of General Counsel at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and she will be spending her 2L summer at Wilson Sonsini in New York.
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