About
Jason D. MacLeod works at the intersection of law and technology, with a focus on cybersecurity compliance, privacy law, AI governance, and human rights technology. He currently serves as Cybersecurity Compliance Program Manager for the City of Bellevue, Washington, where he leads enterprise cybersecurity, privacy, and AI governance compliance for a municipal government supporting more than 160,000 residents, developing policy aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, including third-party risk management and AI and large language model governance frameworks.
Much of his career has been spent in public-interest and human-rights work: the Digital Threat Solutions team at Internews, where he built and operated an information security program protecting journalists, activists, and civil society organizations in high-risk and authoritarian jurisdictions, alongside public-sector, NGO, and academic roles. He has also worked inside major industry: senior cyber risk consulting at Deloitte & Touche LLP advising Fortune 500 clients across the pharmaceutical, medical device, financial services, and technology sectors, and an associate position in data privacy and cybersecurity at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP focused on incident response and regulatory compliance under HIPAA, FCRA, GLBA, COPPA, state privacy regimes, GDPR, PIPL, and BDSG. It's experience he now turns toward the public good.
Earlier work includes Security Risk Analyst at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law, Research Associate at Seattle University School of Law working with Professors Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, and Henry W. McGee, Jr. on Critical Race Theory and civil rights scholarship, and a multi-year fellowship at the Films For Justice Institute under Professor Marilyn Berger.