Lori Fink Bridge to Law Scholarship

Lori Fink is Head of Legal at Xandr where she provides counsel to the Xandr leadership team, and the company, in matters of managing legal risks, privacy, compliance, and legally and ethically achieving business goals. Lori started her career as a Law Clerk in the United States District Court in Kansas and then at a Topeka, Kansas law firm. A job with the Kansas Corporation Commission brought her into the world of regulatory law, and she eventually made her way to Southwestern Bell (now AT&T) in Topeka. Lori’s path took many different twists and turns in a variety of different locations, including Dallas, DC, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, and NYC, as she worked in a variety of different areas including business sales, external affairs, and global customer service. As she began work with the corporate communications and strategy units, unanswered questions surrounding the advent of big data, and its implications for privacy, started popping up more and more. She was AT&T’s first Big Data attorney and later became Chief Privacy Officer, an integral part of the business world’s initial development of strategies around big data and privacy on global scales. She now leads the AT&T Legal Department’s Center of Expertise on Privacy and Security. Lori’s recent career at AT&T has been spent mastering data protection and consumer privacy, something that many of today’s businesses are trying to get right. Some of her earliest, simplest learnings still apply: data protections and privacy won’t be solved with a “check-the-box” approach right before deployment; it must be “baked in” to any product or strategy. Lori graduated from Western Illinois University and Washburn Law School.

This award is intended to support the cost of Law School applications (LSAT, Law School Admission Council fees, and/or law school application fees).