Willmary (Mari) Escoto, Esquire is a D.C. based telecommunications and privacy attorney, a first-generation immigrant, and a responsible tech policy advocate. She's worked on a wide portfolio of regulatory compliance and legislative issues ranging from biotech and pharmaceutical data privacy protections to telecommunications infrastructure and technology public policy issues ranging from hate speech, broadband deployment, content moderation, platform accountability, and artificial intelligence ethics.

 

As a freelance strategic consultant, Mari partners with non-profit organizations and small women and minority owned businesses needing assistance improving their fundraising and strategic development performance. In addition, Mari offers pro-bono career coaching and mentoring to aid aspiring policy professionals navigate their job search with confidence and successfully gain employment. Previously, she advised the National Hispanic Media Coalition as the Director of Policy and Government Affairs, served as a Policy Fellow for Google and as a law clerk for the International Trade Commission Office of Unfair Import Investigations.

 

Mari joined the HBA-DC during her first year of law school while attending the Howard University School of Law. Since then she has held a variety of leadership positions including the Hispanic Bar Association of DC's Professional Conduct and Policy Committee where she assisted in drafting the organizations sexual harassment policy in the wake of the #MeToo movement. She is also a member of the recently enacted HBA-DC Black Lives Matter Task Force where she spearheaded the 2020 Afro-Latinidad panel.

 

Mari holds a Juris Doctorate from the Howard University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the Florida International University. She was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Mari is trilingual (English, Spanish, Italian) and in her spare time she enjoys learning new languages, hiking, baking, and doing yoga.