Mayze Teitler is a legal fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute. They received their J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in May 2022, where they served as a vice president of the Board of Student Advisers, an executive editor of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and a student teaching fellow at the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. During law school, Teitler interned at the Knight Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia. They hold an M.Sc. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Oxford, as well as a dual-degree B.A. in classical languages and in justice and peace studies from Georgetown University.