Naya Dukkipati

Naya Dukkipati currently serves as a Partnership Coordinator at the Paragon Policy Fellowship. She first joined Paragon as a Fellow in its Summer 2025 cohort, developing strategies to protect the City of Fort Collins’ public input systems from AI misuse. In Summer 2026, she served as Research Lead for Paragon’s inaugural Trade Policy Initiative, leading a team of undergraduate researchers in developing a policy brief on strengthening AI communication integrity in local government.

Naya graduated from the University of Southern California in 2026 with a B.A. in Intelligence and Cyber Operations and a B.S. in Public Policy with a concentration in Data Analytics. She is also a Legal Assistant at White & Case LLP in Los Angeles, where she supports the firm’s technology disputes team.

Outside of her professional work, Naya founded and leads Project SafeWeb, an educational initiative that equips young people with the skills to navigate the internet safely and helps combat cyber trafficking and digital exploitation. In her free time, she enjoys reading, watching movies and political forums, and writing poetry.