Principal

Christina is the owner and founder of Gazelle Consulting, a mission driven data security consulting firm out of Portland, OR since 2015. Christina assists her clients, both locally and internationally, in sustainably developing ethical data stewardship programs including HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2. Cyber security and data privacy require an interdisciplinary perspective that draws from Christina’s experience in technology, regulatory compliance, business operations, project management, and activism. She knows the laws like the back of her hand and will help translate the legalese and red tape into actionable and meaningful security strategies.

Project Manager

Everyone needs someone to hold their hand from time to time when it comes to HIPAA compliance. Kylie will nurture your goals and care for your milestones while ensuring you have all of the resources and guidance you need to meet them.

Her history in clinical business management and data privacy provides the ability to ensure HIPAA implementation is completed thoroughly and efficiently in a way that is practical for company use. She has developed compliance policies, procedures, training, and documentation in a variety of environments including hospitals, clinics, software startups, and small businesses. Kylie specializes in organizing complex projects, communicating with stakeholders, and quality assurance of deliverables.

Application Security Engineer

Jay excels at optimizing, automating, and innovating current business processes to meet compliance needs. She enjoys working closely with clients to build and ensure simple, well-documented, and secure practices into their workflows. She has overseen dozens of systems simultaneously to adhere to compliance, application security, legal, and privacy standards. Her degree in computer science and background in software engineering, architecture, and design gives her a unique understanding of how security fits into complex systems.

Editorial Associate

Rae’s background as a research scientist at OHSU and STEM experience in neuroscience lends to her rigorous attention to detail, curiosity, and tenacity when it comes to solving and documenting challenging issues. We won’t call her a perfectionist but she certainly has a ruthless commitment to error free, high quality work. In her spare time, she cares for her 4 rat children: Peas, The Dentist, Wiz, and Ratsputin.

Privacy Consultant

Emmi’s research focuses on individual privacy preferences, exploitation, elements of communication in medical research, integration and regulation of medical technology and decision making in the context of societal ethics.

Ms. Bane specializes primarily in qualitative research, policy, and privacy architecture.