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Sheila B. Lalwani is a doctoral student in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the Moody College of Communication. A recipient of the prestigious Graduate School Mentoring Fellowship and Continuing Fellowship, Sheila conducts research on comparative media law, freedom of expression, and cybersecurity primarily within the U.S. and European Union. Named as a Graduate Fellow with the Clements Center for National Security Security and Cyber Fellow at the Strauss Center, Sheila has presented her work on freedom of expression, content moderation and media law at numerous conferences, including the Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference at Yale Law School, International Communication Association (ICA), and Association of Educators in Mass Communication (AEJMC). She has been awarded grants from Moody College, the Center on Russia, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), the Technology and Policy Institute (TIPI), Good Systems, and AEJMC. Sheila served as the president of the Graduate Communication Council and organized the 2023 Global Fusion Conference, an academic conference to promote academic excellence in global media and international communication studies that brought scholars from countries all over the world to Moody College.

Her work has appeared in Communication Law Review and Surveillance and Society with forthcoming publications expected in the Journal of Information Policy and the Routledge Series on Journalism. A former Fulbright Scholar to Germany, Sheila graduated with a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University. She has reported from Germany, India, Thailand, Austria, and Indonesia and started her career at the Associated Press.