Heather Whitney is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at New York University and was formerly a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (2017), a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School (2014–2016), a law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit Diane P. Wood (2013–2014), and a member of Google's Global Ethics and Compliance team (2007–2010).