Current NYU Cyber Scholars

2024-2025 Cyber Scholars

Sibusisiwe Dlangalala (she/her) is a 2L 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 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 is also a research assistant for Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Jason Schultz, supporting work on digital privacy, democratic governance, and civil procedure. During her 1L summer, she interned in the U.S. Department of Justice and she will spend her 2L summer at the Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Competition.

After graduation, Sibu hopes to pursue a public service career.

Sonali Durham is from Iowa City, Iowa. She’s interested in economic justice, 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.

Ashley Hong is a 1L and Cybersecurity Service Scholar from Los Angeles and Seoul. Prior to law school, Ashley studied computer science and international relations at Brown University. Her professional experience spans venture capital at Insight Partners, where she analyzed primarily early and growth-stage software startups, and academic research on election misinformation. At NYU, Ashley is a Research Assistant for Professor Sunoo Park, focusing on the misuse of LLMs in legal filings and European efforts to backdoor encryption. She is passionate about combating cybercrime and addressing how marginalized communities are disproportionately exposed to digital threats. Ashley will be spending her 1L summer at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement in the D.C. headquarters.

 Keton Kakkar is interested in how changes in technology alter the background presumptions of substantive and procedural law. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and English Literature, with Honors, from Swarthmore College, where he ran the student newspaper and conducted research on machine learning. At the law school, Keton has received the Butler, Pomeroy, and Furman Academic Scholar awards and had the honor of being one of three Robert A. Katzmann Fellows his 2L year. In addition to running various student organizations, he has worked as a research assistant for over seven members of the faculty — most significantly heading up the recent revision of Cases and Materials on Torts, Volume 1, under Professor Sharkey. During his summers, he worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn and the firms Gibson Dunn and Susman Godfrey. In the 2026–27 term, Keton will clerk for the Honorable Richard J. Sullivan of the Second Circuit.

Sean Kesluk is a 2L 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 will spend his 2L summer at Cooley LLP in New York.

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Micah Musser is a current 2L. 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, a Vanderbilt Scholar, and the Treasurer for the student club Rights Over Tech. 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 will be spending 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.

Gwendolyn Strasberg Gardner is a part of the Class of 2025 at New York University School of Law. She holds a Master of Public Diplomacy from USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and bachelor’s degrees in political science and Spanish from the USC Dornsife School of Arts and Sciences. Gwendolyn is also an officer in the United States Marine Corps, working in matters of national security related to cyberspace.

See our past Cyber Scholars here.