Nicklas Akers ’95 leads the California Attorney General’s consumer protection practice and appeared in federal court in Oakland on Aug. 26 to argue for court approval of a landmark $17 billion nationwide State AG settlement that requires Meta to implement daily default time limits, blocks on nighttime use and other protections for teen users of its social media platforms. This record-setting settlement follows years of investigation and litigation, and came in the midst of trial.

Akers earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and went on earn his J.D. at Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.