India McKinney is the Director of Federal Affairs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), where she leads the organization’s advocacy before Congress on issues of digital free expression, surveillance, encryption, consumer privacy, and civil liberties online. With more than a decade of experience as a legislative staffer on Capitol Hill, India brings deep operational knowledge of the legislative process and a keen dedication to shaping policy that preserves the open and innovative nature of the internet.

In her role at EFF, India has been a public voice arguing that statutory regimes like Section 230 should be recognized as essential protections that allow all users — especially the marginalized and the dissenting — to speak and innovate online. Her work emphasizes that weakening these protections risks entrenching the dominance of large platforms and silencing smaller voices.