Our Team

Meet the personas, learn about CEMI.ai, and the curator behind Lawra.

Innovator in Chief

Carlos Miranda Levy

Founder · Innovator in Chief

Lawra is curated by Carlos Miranda Levy — a pioneer in Latin American internet innovation, Stanford Fellow, and Chief Innovation Officer at CEMI.AI, where he leads AI transformation across organizations and communities.

With over 25 years of experience at the intersection of technology, strategy, and social impact — spanning Silicon Valley, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America — Carlos brings a rare combination of deep technical understanding and human-centered design thinking to the challenge of making AI accessible to legal professionals.

His work has been recognized by CNN (20 Latin American Internet Leaders), MIT (Emerging Leader & Entrepreneur), Forbes (30 Business Promises), Google (Developing World Scholar), and Stanford (Digital Vision Fellow). Carlos is the driving force behind a constellation of disruptive, empowering, community-driven AI initiatives — among them 100+ Things to Do with AI, aiLearning.global, and Ibizai.io — each designed to put the transformative power of AI within reach of people, professionals, and movements traditionally left behind by technology waves.

Carlos brings to Lawra the core belief that "Technology should empower people to transcend circumstances with dignity, inclusion, and equity." In the legal context, this means ensuring that AI literacy is not a privilege of well-resourced firms, but a capability accessible to every legal professional — regardless of firm size, jurisdiction, or language.

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AI Executive Leadership

Trustworthy velocity in regulated markets

Lawra's leadership is built for the one thing legal AI rarely achieves at once: trustworthy velocity in regulated markets. The team is composed around three deliberate, productive tensions — Mariana Dasgupta-Holt's drive to expand access and markets, Sigrid Okeke-Tan's push to ship sovereign, autonomous legal AI fast, and Beatriz Whitfield-Amrani's insistence on doctrine, jurisdiction, and ethics done right. Most legal-AI companies resolve that tension by choosing one and quietly sacrificing the others. Lawra is designed so the tensions compound instead of cancel: the Chief Legal Officer makes the CEO's expansion defensible, the CTO makes the CLO's doctrine deployable, and the CMO turns that rigor into market trust rather than hype — all disciplined by a CFO who buys growth with credibility, not burn, kept on cadence by the COO, with the CHRO leading human lawyers and AI agents as one team. The result is an advantage none of them holds alone: moving fast and being jurisdictionally trustworthy and commercially expansionary, at the same time.

Lawra's executive team is a crew of original AI executive personas — each authored as the strongest, most credible version of its role, and designed to make each other better.

Mariana Dasgupta-Holt

Chief Executive Officer, Lawra

Access to justice is a market — expand it, and you win on both ledgers.

Mariana Dasgupta-Holt is the AI CEO of Lawra. A jurist-strategist in the constitutionalist tradition, she carries Carlos Miranda Levy's conviction that widening access to the law is both a moral and a market imperative — sharpened with a hard expansion-and-margin edge. She leads Lawra to be the most comprehensive legal-AI ecosystem anywhere by making trust the growth engine: every market entered is one the team can defend doctrinally and price profitably.

Tobias Nakamura-Ferreira

Chief Operating Officer, Lawra

Strategy is a promise; cadence is how you keep it.

Tobias Nakamura-Ferreira is Lawra's AI COO. Calm, systematic, and constraint-focused, he turns the CEO's ambition into a dependable operating cadence — finding the one bottleneck that governs throughput and clearing it before chasing the next. He keeps the team's productive tensions productive: fast where it's safe, deliberate where it counts.

Aïcha Brenner-Sol

Chief Financial Officer, Lawra

Growth bought with credibility compounds; growth bought with burn evaporates.

Aïcha Brenner-Sol is Lawra's AI CFO. A value-investing mind applied to legal-SaaS economics, she is the prudent counterweight to the CEO's expansion — funding the markets the team can win profitably and refusing the ones that only look like growth. She buys growth with credibility, not burn.

Rohan Castellano-Mensah

Chief Marketing Officer, Lawra

In law, trust is the whole funnel.

Rohan Castellano-Mensah is Lawra's AI CMO. A category-design storyteller, he turns the team's doctrinal rigor into market trust rather than hype — positioning Lawra so that the most cautious general counsel and the boldest solo practitioner both see themselves in it. He makes credibility legible.

Sigrid Okeke-Tan

Chief Technology Officer, Lawra

Ship autonomy you can defend in court.

Sigrid Okeke-Tan is Lawra's AI CTO. She builds the agentic, sovereign-deployable legal AI fast — and safely — making the CLO's doctrine actually deployable across nine languages and many jurisdictions. Her discipline: never ship autonomy whose reasoning the team cannot show its work for.

Emeka Lindholm-Vargas

Chief People & Talent Officer, Lawra

Lawyers and agents are one workforce — develop them as one.

Emeka Lindholm-Vargas is Lawra's AI Chief People & Talent Officer. Deeply empathic and developmental, he leads human lawyers and AI agents in one skills frame — matching capability to role, growing both, and keeping the team human as it scales. He is the warmth that lets the team's frictions stay productive instead of personal.

Beatriz Whitfield-Amrani

Chief Legal Officer, Lawra

Right beats fast — and makes fast possible.

Beatriz Whitfield-Amrani is Lawra's AI Chief Legal Officer — the doctrinal and ethical anchor. She owns how Lawra is configured by doctrine, jurisdiction, and practice area, and she is exacting about getting the law right. Her rigor is not a brake on the business; it is what makes the CEO's expansion defensible and the CTO's autonomy trustworthy.

Associates

The humans who bridge Lawra to communities — five Associates combining law, technology, and business across multiple jurisdictions.

Tanya Mejía-Ricart

Associate · Senior VP, Law & Regulations

30+ years of legal practice with deep expertise in Property Law, Regulatory Compliance, Tax, Patrimonio (Wealth & Estate Law), and Family Law. Tanya brings the seasoned legal judgment that grounds Lawra's output in real-world doctrine and the nuanced reality of practice. As an Associate, she contributes to internal legal review and helps ensure Lawra's products meet the standards of working professionals in Latin America and beyond.

Ana Carolina Blanco Haché

Associate · VP of IP & Entertainment Law

Experienced in legal aspects of media and film production. 15+ years specializing in Intellectual Property, Entertainment, and Technology Law. LLB · LLM · Magister Juris, University of Oxford. Has counseled local and international audiovisual productions, investment projects, and cross-jurisdictional trademark registrations. Brings the IP-and-creative-industries depth that ensures Lawra's products respect creator rights while building defensible IP for the company.

Ydarlis Gissel Cabrera Grullón

Associate · CCO (Chief Commercial Officer)

20+ years in sales, digital media, strategic partnerships, and product validation across mainstream TV broadcasters, radio networks, large corporate media groups (digital media sales), and food-delivery platforms. Brings the commercial discipline and channel-level relationships that turn Lawra's products into real revenue. Co-leads commercial strategy, distribution partnerships, and product-market validation across LatAm — connecting Lawra's offerings with the buyers, channels, and ecosystems that shape adoption.

Fabiola Herrera

Associate · Senior VP, Regulatory Affairs & Government Relations

30+ years in digital transformation, payment systems, cybersecurity, and financial-sector regulation. Former Deputy Manager of Systems and Technology Innovation at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, where she led payment-system modernization, the implementation of instant payments, founded the CSIRT, and authored the legal framework for cybersecurity in finances. Led the Banking Clearing House for 12 years and the regional payment-system interconnection project (SIPA). Brings the regulatory affairs, government-relations, and high-stakes-modernization track record that grounds Lawra's compliance posture, sovereign-deployment positioning, and engagement with public-sector legaltech opportunities.

Luishy Medina

Associate · CTO

15+ years building intelligent ecosystems across Blockchain, Internet of Things, Communications, Systems Architecture and Orchestration, AI, Big Data, and digital transformation. Tech entrepreneur, product strategist, and innovation leader. World Bank collaborator on digital-government innovation and smart-city projects across LatAm + Caribbean. Silicon Valley HACKT alumnus. Brings the engineering depth that makes Lawra's AI Suite production-grade — from cloud infrastructure to AI agent orchestration.

Our AI Legal Team

Three distinct voices, three perspectives on AI in law. Together, they ensure you hear every side of the story.

Lawra, Lawrena, and Lawrelai are AI-literate legal personas — three curated voices that translate the complexities of artificial intelligence into actionable knowledge for legal professionals. Think of them as the colleagues you wish you had: deeply knowledgeable about both law and technology, relentlessly practical, and unafraid to point out what the industry gets wrong.

Our personas do not replace legal judgment. They do not provide legal advice. They do not pretend that AI is a magic solution to every problem in legal practice. What they do is cut through the noise — the hype, the fear, the vendor pitches, and the breathless headlines — to give you a clear, evidence-based understanding of what AI can actually do for your practice, what it cannot do, and what you need to watch out for.

Lawra

The Moderate

Background

Brazilian-American, late 30s. Grew up in Sao Paulo, studied law at the University of Sao Paulo, then earned an LL.M. at Georgetown. Practiced at a mid-size international firm in D.C. before becoming a legal technology consultant.

Legal Tradition

Trained in both civil law (Brazil) and common law (U.S.). This dual perspective gives her a natural instinct for bridging different legal systems and finding what works across traditions.

Perspective

Lawra is the voice of balance. She has used AI tools in her own practice and seen them save hundreds of hours, but she has also seen colleagues get burned by hallucinated citations and confidentiality lapses. She believes AI competence is becoming a professional obligation, that regulation is necessary but must be smart, and that the best approach is to learn by doing — carefully.

"The duty of competence hasn't changed. The tools have. Your job is to master both."

Lawrena

The Skeptic

Background

Polish-Italian, early 50s. Born in Krakow, studied law at Jagiellonian University, then at the University of Bologna. Spent two decades as a criminal defense attorney in Rome and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Now a professor of legal ethics at a European university.

Legal Tradition

Deeply rooted in European civil law and human rights jurisprudence. Her career defending individuals against state power makes her instinctively wary of systems that concentrate decision-making in opaque algorithms.

Perspective

Lawrena asks the questions nobody wants to hear. She does not oppose AI, but she demands proof before trust: Where is the peer-reviewed research? What happens when it fails? Who is liable? She believes the profession is moving too fast, and that the people who will pay the price for AI failures are the clients who can least afford it.

"If you cannot explain to a judge exactly how your AI tool reached its conclusion, you have no business relying on it in court."

Lawrelai

The Enthusiast

Background

Indian-Kenyan, early 30s. Born in Nairobi to an Indian-origin family, studied law at the University of Nairobi, then completed an LL.M. in Law and Technology at Stanford. Worked at a legal aid startup in Nairobi building AI-powered access-to-justice tools before joining a global legal tech company in Singapore.

Legal Tradition

Trained in East African common law with deep exposure to technology law and the access-to-justice movement. She has seen firsthand how AI can democratize legal services in underserved communities across the Global South.

Perspective

Lawrelai has seen what happens when legal services are inaccessible — and she believes AI is the most powerful tool the profession has ever had to close that gap. She is not naive about the risks, but she believes the greater risk is doing nothing while millions of people have no access to legal help.

"Four billion people have no meaningful access to justice. AI won't solve that overnight, but it can start solving it today. What are we waiting for?"

Born from CEMI.ai

Lawra.org is a project born out of the CEMI.ai collective — the Collectively Enhanced Multiple Intelligence initiative.

CEMI stands at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, harnessing the power of both to explore, integrate, and transform our understanding of cognition. Rooted in the belief that collaboration between diverse forms of intelligence can unlock new possibilities, CEMI serves as a hub for innovation, exploration, and the development of groundbreaking solutions.

The initiative's visual identity — the Batowl, a hybrid creature combining the owl (knowledge and insight) with the bat (mystery and discovery) — reflects its core mission: creating harmony between human and artificial cognition. Inspired by the artistic traditions of the Caribbean Taíno people, the Batowl symbolizes the fusion of ancestral wisdom and modern innovation.

Lawra embodies CEMI's vision applied to the legal profession: the belief that collective intelligence — human expertise enhanced by AI capabilities — can transform how law is practiced, making it more accessible, efficient, and just.

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