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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: Damola Ogundipe
Current city: Brookhaven, GA
Current job: CEO of Plural
Past job: Oxford Strategic Consulting
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
Name: Shubhansha Agrawal
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Head of Product, Contributions & Community at Yelp & Advisory Board Member for DevNetwork & Harvard Business Review
Past job: Product Lead, Core Experience at MyFitnessPal; Product Manager, Software EngineerProduct Manager, Software Engineer at Salesforce
Name: Lisa Roman
Current city: Washington, D.C.
Current job: Vice President, Global Public Policy and Social Impact at Bumble
Past job: National Security Council, the State Department, the United Nations
Name: Nick Myers
Current city: Boston, MA
Current job: CEO & Co-founder, Phoenix Tailings
Past job: Lead Associate at Techstars
Name: Lisa Hayes
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Senior Director, Tech Policy & Senior Counsel at TikTok
Past job: Interim Co-CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT);
Name: Sean Perryman
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Director of Social Impact Policy & Counsel at the Internet Association
Past job: Counsel at House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Democratic Staff
Name: Kendra Brown
Current city: Washington, DC
Current job: Vice President, Public Policy, Mastercard
Past job: Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Representative G. K. Butterfield
Name: Joseph Okpaku
Current city: Oakland, CA
Current job: Chief Policy Officer, Booster Fuels
Past job: VP Government Relations, Lyft
Name: Yael Eisenstat
Current city: New York City
Current job: Visiting Fellow, Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative
Past job: Facebook (Elections Integrity Ops); White House (National Security); CIA Officer
Name: Lisa Dyer
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Director of Policy, Partnership on AI
Past job: Director, Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Department of State
Name: Kay Firth-Butterfield
Current city: San Francisco, CA
Current job: Chief Head of AI at World Economic Forum
Past job: Chief AI Ethics Officer at World Economic Forum
