This May, Alvaro Bedoya was appointed commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission by President Biden, a new role that continues his work as a champion of individual rights and protections. Alvaro founded and formerly directed Georgetown’s Center on Privacy & Technology, which focuses on privacy and surveillance issues, using investigations, policy initiatives, and education. Alvaro’s work is especially related to issues of race, class, and power. To that end, he recently co-authored The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America, which highlights how most American adults are captured in a police recognition network where vendor companies have not addressed race and gender biases in face scanning software. With an aim to give back, Alvaro also co-founded the Esperanza Education Fund, which provides scholarships to immigrant students in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.