Encode Justice Georgia

Encode Justice Georgia (EJ-GA) is the Georgia state chapter of Encode Justice, the youth-led international AI-policy advocacy organization founded by Sneha Revanur in 2020. The chapter recruits across Georgia high-school and college student networks and is one of three Encode chapters — alongside the North Carolina chapter and the Oregon chapter — that joined the Electronic Frontier Alliance, EFF's now-concluded grassroots civil-liberties network. Public contact runs through the chapter's Instagram account (@encode.ga).

Place in the Encode Justice network and the EFA

EFF's December 2024 Electronic Frontier Alliance year-in-review introduces EJ-GA as "the third Encode Justice to join EFA, mostly made up of high school students learning the tools of organizing by focusing on issues like algorithmic machine-learning and law enforcement surveillance" — placing the chapter in the same EFA cohort as Stop Surveillance City (Seattle), Cyber Security Club @FSU (Tallahassee), the UF Student Infosec Team (Gainesville), NICC (Newark), DC919 (Raleigh), Community Broadband PDX (Portland), DC215 (Philadelphia), and Open Austin. The chapter's two named programmatic threads as recorded by EFF — algorithmic-accountability work and police-surveillance work — are characteristic of the Encode chapter template that the North Carolina chapter anchors in the corpus, but EFA's December 2024 description gives EJ-GA the heavier surveillance-and-policing accent of the three Encode EFA chapters (the EFF June 2024 NC spotlight pairs the NC chapter with workshops on AI in policing but frames its broader scope as facial recognition and student-data privacy). The Electronic Frontier Alliance itself concluded on 20 November 2025, so the alliance relationship is now historical rather than ongoing, but the EFA affiliation gave the chapter visibility inside the wider U.S. digital-rights coalition during its formative period.

Chapter leadership and Lambert High School anchor

The chapter's named anchor in the public record runs through Lambert High School in Suwanee, Forsyth County, Georgia — a northeast Atlanta-metro public high school. The Lambert Post, the school's student newspaper, names Martha Mwangi, then a Lambert junior, as the chapter leader of Encode Justice at the school, with Emily Nicholas as the co-founder of the chapter's scholarship programme and Manishidha Spriyan and Anna Pham assisting with planning and funding. None of the four are independently in the corpus and are recorded here as the chapter's named student leadership rather than as Person entries, in keeping with this corpus's sourcing rule that Person entries below the public-sourcing threshold are not created.

EJ-GA Essay Contest and the Georgia Computer Data Privacy Act

The chapter's named programmatic output to date is the EJ-GA Essay Contest (also called the Encode Justice Scholarship), a chapter-run essay competition for Georgia high-school students centred on the proposed Georgia Computer Data Privacy Act — the bill (SB 394, 2021-2022 session) that would have required Georgia companies to comply with consumer requests to disclose, delete, or stop selling their personal data. Prizes were structured as $250 (first), $150 (second), and $50 (third), with the Scholarships.com listing recording a submission deadline of 14 May 2024. The contest's substantive remit is the standard Encode Justice intersection: a state-level data-privacy bill that the chapter has used as the organising prompt to bring Georgia students into close reading of state AI / data-privacy legislation. The contest is distinctive within the Encode chapter set as a chapter-run scholarship — a fundraising-and-recruitment vehicle that pairs the chapter's policy-memo and educational-workshop programme with a small but named cash prize, and that gives the chapter an in-school presence at Lambert beyond the after-school workshop format the NC chapter documents.

Posture in the movement

EJ-GA is a clear in-scope local group for the corpus: a youth-led, geographically anchored chapter of an in-corpus national organization that engages non-AI publics — Georgia high-school and college students, families in school districts affected by AI-driven surveillance and data-collection programmes, and the wider Atlanta-metro civic-policy audience around state data-privacy legislation — in shaping how AI is built and deployed at the state level. Its distinctive contribution inside the Encode Justice chapter network, as documented to date, is the law-enforcement-surveillance accent EFA's own description gives it and the chapter-run essay-contest scholarship as a recruitment-and-civic-education device. The chapter also gives the corpus its first southeast-US local-group entry — sitting outside the corpus's existing US local-group cluster of the Bay Area (PauseAI Bay Area), the New York / east-coast PauseAI organising base, and the Research Triangle anchor of the NC Encode chapter — and is the corpus's first Atlanta-metro local-group anchor.