Berkeley Art Center, in partnership with Berkeley Public Library and Meet the Moment (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer will be speaking on the panel, "Whose Constitution?"
From the Organizers:
Moderated by author Jeff Chang, panelists will explore the question "What should our relationship to the constitution be in this moment of time, as both individual citizens and as members of our communities?" Featuring historian Michael Castañeda and legal expert Nicole Ozer as panelists.
When:
Saturday, October 24
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Pacific
Where:
Berkeley Public Library — Main Branch
2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA
Historic Lobby, 2nd floor, Mystery Room
Standing room with a few chairs provided for accessibility.
Cost:
Free and open to the public
Event Requirements:
Register here.
About the Speaker:
Nicole Ozer is EFF's Executive Director leading cutting-edge law and policy to advance rights, justice, and democracy and is a legal expert on artificial intelligence, privacy and surveillance, and digital speech.
Before becoming Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in June 2026, she had launched the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law San Francisco as its Inaugural Executive Director and earlier was the founding Director and longtime leader of the Technology and Civil Liberties Program at the ACLU of Northern California.
Nicole was also a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Fellow at the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab, a Visiting Researcher at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco.
About Berkeley Art Center:
Berkeley Art Center is a hub for artistic exploration and community building that champions Bay Area artists and curators. Located in Live Oak Park in North Berkeley, we make contemporary art approachable at an intimate scale while serving diverse communities through exhibitions and artist-conceived events, workshops, and programs. Since 1967, BAC has exhibited work by important local figures such as Robert Bechtle, Enrique Chagoya, Bill Fontana, Taraneh Hemami, Mildred Howard, Hung Liu, Jim Melchert, Chiura Obata, Sonya Rapport, Katherine Sherwood, Peter Voulkos, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
About Berkeley Public Library:
The Berkeley Public Library has served the people of Berkeley since 1893, and looks forward to providing many more years of community service. The Library is one of the most heavily used libraries in California, serving a local population of 118,950 and more from the surrounding area. (US Census estimate as of July 1, 2022) The Central Library, located in downtown Berkeley, and four recently renovated branches ensure easy library access for residents in Berkeley’s many and diverse neighborhoods.
About Meet the Moment:
We help nonprofits make confident technology decisions so they can spend less time fighting technology and more time on mission. We have worked together for over 31 years, helping nonprofits build real technology capacity from the ground up. What started in social work at Fountain House in New York City became a shared career turning complex technology into a practical force for mission-driven teams. We founded Meet the Moment because nonprofits are navigating more uncertainty than ever — from the rise of AI to growing cybersecurity threats to an environment that demands resilience at every level. That's the moment we built this firm to meet.
This event is organized not by EFF, but by the Berkeley Art Center, in partnership with Berkeley Public Library and Meet the Moment.
