Shreya Tewari serves as Resource Counsel for the Fourth Amendment Center at NACDL, which provides the defense bar with resources and litigation support designed to preserve privacy rights in the digital age.
Shreya focuses on developing materials and resources on emerging Fourth Amendment issues to train and assist defense lawyers across the country and ensure they can best protect clients’ constitutional rights in the face of new surveillance tactics and technologies.
Prior to joining NACDL, Shreya clerked for Hon. Adam Silvera in New York and was a Brennan Fellow at the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. As a Brennan Fellow, Shreya litigated a variety of First and Fourth Amendment issues including protest rights and aerial surveillance, government use of cellphone location data, and unavoidably shed DNA. Her work on a FOIA case revealing the extent of federal law enforcement’s access to cellphone location information was widely covered and referenced by various sources including Politico, The Verge, TechCrunch, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.
Shreya holds a J.D. from the University of San Francisco where she was co-president of the Student Immigration Law Association. As a law student, Shreya worked at the ACLU of Northern California, the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, CAIR-San Francisco Bay Area, and in USF’s Deportation Defense and Immigration Policy clinics.
