Laura Marquez-Garrett

Laura Marquez-Garrett is a 2002 Harvard Law School graduate and spent the first twenty-years of their career in Big Law, overseeing complex litigation matters and specializing in electronic evidence and forensic investigation. In January of 2022, Laura left a predominantly defense-oriented practice to join the Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC) to contribute to the Center’s mission of change and holding social media companies accountable for the harms they are causing to children and families. 

Laura has since filed more than 1,200 complaints against tech companies in state and federal courts across the country.  Laura has spoken out about social media and AI harms to multiple major news organizations, on live broadcasts such as Democracy Now! (Part I and Part II) and podcasts such as Your Undivided Attention, Scrolling 2 Death, and Legal4Tech, at events like The Mothers Against Media Addiction Expert Insight Series, panels including the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival and The Washington Post Global Women’s Summit 2024, and in the documentary released in April 2025, Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media.  Laura also spoke at a House Energy & Commerce Committee Roundtable on the Dangers of Big Tech and the Fentanyl Poisoning Crisis; authored an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Blade in support of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA); has met with hundreds of children and families, tech industry experts, and law enforcement and analyzed social media data across all major platforms; serves as a member of the Fairplay Board of Directors and Phone-Free Schools Movement’s Advisory Board; and is actively involved in efforts across the globe to force change and hold tech companies accountable for the harms they are causing children as a matter of intentional platform design.