The National Security Institute hosted a Brown Bag Lunch with Shannon Togawa Mercer, Senior Counsel on OpenAI’s Security, Investigations, and Public Sector legal team and Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School.

At OpenAI, Shannon focuses on cybersecurity and platform abuse, advising on legal and policy issues at the intersection of AI, security, and public-sector use. Before joining OpenAI, she was counsel at WilmerHale, where she advised clients on global cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection matters. She has also served as Managing Editor at Lawfare, as a National Security and Law Associate at the Hoover Institution, and previously worked in finance and management consulting.

This Brown Bag Lunch offered students an inside look at how AI companies approach security and risk, what it means to practice law in a rapidly evolving technology landscape, and how to build a career that spans government, academia, and industry.

This event is a part of NSI’s Brown Bag Lunch Series, which connects Scalia Law students with leading practitioners working at the intersection of law, national security, and technology. These events are for students only.