Name: M. Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni
Current city: Marblehead, MA
Current job: VP, Ethical Innovation & Privacy, Global Portfolio Division at Takeda
Past job: Data & Privacy Policy Innovation at Meta
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Name: Tom Romanoff
Current city: Washington DC
Current job: Director of the Technology Policy Project, Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC)
Past job: Program Manager, Northramp
Name: Dewey Murdick
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Executive Director, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University
Past job: Director of Science Analytics, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Name: Heather Ashby
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Associate Director of Technological Disruption and Artificial Intelligence at U.S. Institute of Peace
Past job: Acting Director Center for Russia and Europe at U.S. Institute of Peace
Name: Dan Hendrycks
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Executive Director, Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
Past job: Academic Researcher
Name: Jeff Farrah
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Chief Executive Officer, Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association
Past job: General Counsel, National Venture Capital Association
Name: Camille Crittenden
Current city: Berkeley, CA
Current job: Executive director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at UC
Past job: Executive director, Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley; Associate Director of Development at UC Press and San Francisco Opera
Name: Amy Widdowson
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Vice President Communications, Medium
Past job: Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications, Zeno Group; Vice President at Vrge Strategies; Marketing at various SF startups, travel blogger a lifetime ago.
Name: Victoria Espinel
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance and President, Software.org: the BSA Foundation; Member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
Past job: President Obama’s advisor on intellectual property; The first chief US trade negotiator for intellectual property and innovation at USTR
Name: Nii Simmonds
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Nonresident Senior Fellow at the GeoTech Center at the Atlantic Council
Past job: Senior Advisor at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University
Name: Soribel Feliz
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior AI and Tech Policy Advisor to Senator Bill Cassidy
Past job: Microsoft, Program Manager
Name: Miriam Vogel
Current city: Chevy Chase, MD
Current job: Executive Director, EqualAI and Chair of the National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
Past job: Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice
Name: Tekedra Mawakana
Current city: Bay Area, CA
Current job: Co-CEO at Waymo
Past job: Chief Operating Officer at Waymo
Name: Damola Ogundipe
Current city: Brookhaven, GA
Current job: CEO of Plural
Past job: Oxford Strategic Consulting
Name: Audra Grassia
Current city: Midlothian, VA
Current job: Chief Innovation Officer, Goodstock & Co. + Independent Consultant, Luminarity LLC
Past job: CEO, Grassia Collaborative LLC
Name: Naeim Khanjani
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: CEO at Electo Analytics
Past job: Consultant
Name: Asya Kislyuk
Current city: Carmel, IN
Current job: Looking for it!
Past job: Policy Programs Manager at Instagram; Policy Manager and Deputy Director, Community Engagement at Airbnb; Senior Program Assistant, Ukraine and Moldova at the National Democratic Institute; State Department Intern
Name: Catherine Aiken
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Data Science and Research, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
Past job: Survey Specialist, Center for Security and Emerging Technology; Lecturer, University of Maryland
Name: Jennifer Shieh
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Ecosystem Development, Office of Investment & Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Past job: Chief Scientist for America's Seed Fund, Assistant Director for Entrepreneurship at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), food scooper at Dragon Bowl
Name: Afua Bruce
Current city: Washington, D.C.
Current job: Founder & Principal, ANB Advisory Group LLC & Author of The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World
Past job: Chief Program Officer, Datakind; Director of Engineering, Public Interest Technology at New America; Executive Director, National Science and Technology Council, White House; Science and Technology strategy and program management, FBI