Madison Vision Series

Margaret Hu is an associate professor of law at Washington and Lee University. She previously served as senior policy advisor for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She also served as special policy counsel in the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C.

In the time Hu spent in Washington D.C. following the events of Sept. 11, she observed the bureaucratic structure and technology needed to support what she felt at that time to be a nation focused on surveillance. Read more