Antonio Pontón-Núñez is from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Before joining Acacia, Antonio served as a shareholder advocacy legal fellow at Rhia Ventures focusing on reproductive justice and digital privacy, and as a law clerk for the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division. Antonio recently co-authored “Automating judicial discretion: How algorithmic risk assessments in pretrial adjudications violate Equal Protection rights on the basis of race” in the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality. Antonio holds a JD from the City University of New York School of Law, a master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute, and a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from Universidad de Puerto Rico.